Facilities Management advise that there will be a planned power outage between 6am and 2 pm on Saturday 24 August in the following buildings:

• MU01 Music Main Building
• MU02 Music Outbuilding

This is a complete power outage to enable the installation of Power Metering. All power to mechanical plant and other systems will be shut down during these works.

What do you need to do?

FM recommend that people in the affected buildings:

• Turn off IT equipment at the CoB Friday 23 August, or prior to the outage (6am), in preparation for this power shutdown.
• Ensure any equipment UPS is operating correctly.
• Make arrangement to, or plan to shut down and reset any specialist equipment.
• If equipment is alarmed this will need to be reset.

We have planned this outage for a Saturday to minimise disruption, and we thank you for your consideration as we undertake these required electrical works.

Please direct any enquiries to fmassist@canterbury.ac.nz

Ngā mihi,

The Facilities Management Team

Facilities Management advise that there will be a planned heating outage between 8am Saturday 17 August until 8am Sunday 18 August.

This means there will be no heating during the outage in the following buildings:

• Ernest Rutherford
• Julius Von Haast
• Beatrice Tinsley
• Central Lecture Theatres

To allow the installation of a larger heating distribution pump for the new ground source heat pump (GSHP) plantroom, the old pump which provides heat to buildings within the Science Precinct, needs to be removed.

Please consider an alternative location to work, where possible, during the outage.

If you are using these buildings, we recommend you dress warmly and to the weather conditions.

Thank you for your patience while these works are performed.

Ngā mihi,

The Facilities Management Team