High temperature hot water outage

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:11:21 -0400

Details for May 2025 High Temperature Hot Water (HTHW) Outage

This is regarding the annually scheduled High-Temperature Hot Water (HTHW) system shutdown that will affect multiple buildings across campus. The HTHW system affects heat, air conditioning and domestic hot water at sinks, showers, etc.

The shutdown will begin Friday, May 23 and conclude by Monday, June 9, 2025, and is part of a major infrastructure maintenance and repair to improve reliability and system performance.

�� Full List of Impacted Buildings:

- Chemistry Building, HHMI (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

- Physics Building

- Erickson Hall

- Performing Arts &amp; Humanities Building (PAHB)

- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building (ILSB)

- Engineering & Computing Services (ECS)

- Information Technology & Engineering (ITE)

- Library (to include Special Collections)

- Sondheim Hall

- Administration Building

- Commons

- RAC

- Biology/Schwartz

- UC

- Sherman

- Math/Psych

- Public Policy

- Fine Arts

- Central Plant/Police Station

�� Anticipated Impacts:

Domestic Hot Water Availability:

 The food service venues at The Commons and Chick-fil-A will continue to have domestic hot water via stand-by electric water heaters. True Grits Dining Hall is not affected.

 RAC locker room bathrooms near the pool will have domestic hot water via stand-by electric water heaters. The pools will not be heated.

 Other locations will lose domestic and lab hot water service for the duration.

Temperature and Humidity Control:

 The hot water outage impacts the comfort level of the air conditioning system. Building temperature and humidity controls will be closely monitored throughout the shutdown.

�� Key Dates:

- May 23–24 – System shutdown and staged cooldown process.

- May 28–June 7 – Infrastructure work including heat exchanger and valve replacements.

- June 7–9 – System refill, pressure testing, and final restoration.