Another reminder for those have might have missed this because of the holidays – Major Power Shutdown 1/5
Division of Campus Affairs
Facilities Management Services
TO: All Facility Coordinators and Shutdown Group
FROM: Service Response Center
DATE: December 17, 2013
SUBJECT: Major Power Shutdown – Sunday, 1/5/2014
Facilities Management Services, Campus Design and Facilities Development have planned a second major power shutdown and transfer to repair the Scott Hall damage to the 4160V power distribution. A five hour power shutdown is needed for Hamerschlag Hall, Roberts Hall, and Scaife Hall from 6:00 AM until 11:00 AM. The power shutdown is planned for Sunday, January 5, heating and chilled water systems will start shutting down at 5:00 AM. The remaining campus buildings’ chilled water will operate as normal.
Hamburg Hall, Smith Hall, Newell Simon and Facilities Management Services Building are to have an interruption of power for approximately 15 minutes each from 6:00 AM- 7:00 AM on January 5.
Doherty Hall, Purnell Center, and Gates Hillman Center are to have an interruption of power for approximately 15 minutes each from 11:00 AM – noon on January 5.
Exterior doors will be posted with this notification.
Occupants should shut off all non-essential equipment, make sure all windows are closed and fume hoods are safe before leaving campus for the weekend.
Only authorized are allowed in these buildings during the scheduled power shutdown. At 5:00 AM on January 5, University Police will patrol buildings and require students, staff and faculty to exit buildings. There will be no power, computers, lights, elevators and very little heat. Exterior doors will reopen when the buildings systems are safely reenergized.
The Incident Command Center for this power shutdown is the Scott Hall job trailer stationed in the Porter Hall/Hamerschlag Hall parking lot. If a department decides to have designated staff member in their space to monitor their equipment, personnel must obtain badges at the Scott Hall trailer for access.
We will be posting updates during the outage using twitter. If you are interested you may follow our tweets http://twitter.com/CMU_FMSannounce .
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Kyle K. Tomer
Associate Director of FMS for Client Services
Facilities Management Services
Carnegie Mellon University
412-268-6332