All, It is the summer and we have the usual influx of students coming in to do research. This year is different as we have a full research contingent of laboratories for the first time since...
June 10, 2025
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10:16 AM
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The HTHW System is not back on yet. Part of this outage was to replace aged pipe and fittings in the Central Plant. There was a series of pipe cuts and welds that needed to occur. Late last week...
June 9, 2025
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1:17 PM
All, I will be distributing equipment log books for autoclaves, shared centrifuges and glasswashers in the building over the next week or so. I'll be starting in room 324C where we have the...
June 2, 2025
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11:14 AM
IMPORTANT
Keeping researchers researching
All, The university is implementing an occupational safety program across all aspects of operations including the research labs. To start this process, building managers and administrators have...
May 29, 2025
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10:56 AM
Session One May 27th - July 3rd
All, With the beginning of summer session classes, I am going to tighten up access to the building. Starting today, after the card reader system rolled memorial day to the 27th, the building...
May 27, 2025
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12:48 PM
Update from facilities management
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...
May 27, 2025
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10:20 AM
The outage has begun, dress warmly
All, The boilers at the central plant have been turned off to commence the annual maintenance work on the university steam system. This is a campus wide outage affecting all academic building...
May 23, 2025
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10:56 AM
UMBC's Scientific Glassblower shop
All, Some of you may be aware that UMBC has a scientific glass blower in the Chemistry and Biochemistry department: https://glassshop.umbc.edu/. Our glass blower is currently doing inventory...
May 22, 2025
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10:50 AM
5/22
All, Steris will be performing maintenance on our autoclaves tomorrow morning. As a reminder, we will not have steam or hot water in the building starting this Friday, 5/23 until June 9th. the...
May 21, 2025
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11:37 AM
Hi all, This being the beginning of finals, I've decided to tighten up our building hours based on the finals schedule in the building. Tomorrow, 5/15 the building and classrooms will be...
May 14, 2025
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5:13 PM