Planned Electrical Outage – Sunday 28 September

There will be a planned electrical outage affecting the listed buildings on Sunday 28 September.

Connetics and UC Electricians will be upgrading the 11kV transformer at the Puaka-James Hight Substation on Sunday 28 September between 6:30 AM – 11:30 PM.

To maintain power to key buildings, and maintain Library opening hours on Sunday, a generator will be installed. This requires two total power outages from 6:30–8:30 AM and then from 9:30–11:30 PM during connection and disconnection of the generator.

Affected Buildings:
•    Puaka-James Hight (AS01)
•    North Arts LT (AR04)
•    Matariki (GS01)
•    Okeover (AS01)

FM recommend that people in the affected buildings:
•    Power down IT equipment before leaving Friday 27 Sept
•    Check UPS systems
•    Coordinate specialist equipment shutdown/reset
•    Note- FM cannot reset faculty-specific equipment

Please refer all enquiries to fmassist@canterbury.ac.nz

Thank you for your cooperation as we complete these required electrical upgrade works.
Facilities Management

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