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Recreation Centre Bridge Outage – Access Closed for Maintenance 5 December -12 December 

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Facilities Management (FM) advise that Bridge No 10, which leads to the Recreation Centre, will be closed for maintenance from 7am Thursday 5 December until 5pm Thursday 12 December.

The bridge will be closed for one (1) week while the FM team remediate the bridge treads, as recommended by external engineers engaged to provide an engineering report on all bridges on the Ilam Campus.

Affected Buildings:

SS01 – SS04 Recreation Centre Buildings

GS50 – K1 and UC Printery

GS51 – UC Warehouse

Pedestrians wanting to access the Recreation Centre during this outage will need to use the footbridge leading to the Health Centre and then follow the path past the Health Centre to Kirkwood Ave. Walk along Kirkwood Ave toward Creyke Road, and turn into the Printery, Warehouse, and Recreation Centre which will be on your left (see inset map).

Please Follow all signage in place, any instruction from contactors on site and DO NOT enter any fenced off areas to cross the bridge.

Direct any enquiries to fmassist@canterbury.ac.nz.

Thank you for your understanding and patience as we complete this required health and safely maintenance work.

Facilities Management

Community notice, Our Community

Jack Mann Roof Project – Closures and Truck Movements December 2024

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Dominion Contractors, completing the roof replacement and maintenance works on the Jack Mann building, advise the following access restrictions and truck movements scheduled to take place between Monday 2 December and Tuesday 24 December.

 Access Restrictions – (refer to inset map)

  • North Entrance Closure – 02/12 and 03/12 to complete th
    e canopy framing works.
  • South Entrance closure – 04/12 – to complete the gutter works.

One entrance will remain open at all times for the duration of the closures.

Signage will be in place directing staff and students to available access and open entrance doors.

Truck and Machinery Movement

  • Exterior Painting – 02/12 to 24/12 – South Stages exterior painting. A knuckle boom will be onsite to allow for height works.
  • Hi-ab truck delivery – 04/12 Hi-ab truck to deliver doors to Jack Mann Loading Dock (before 11am).

Please stay aware of Truck movements and machinery on site and follow all access signage for entry and exits to and from the building.

Direct any enquiries to fmassist@canterbury.ac.nz

Thank you for your consideration as our contractors undertake these required building refurbishment works.

Facilities Management

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Apply now: The University of Vienna Winter School for Cultural Historical Studies

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The University of Vienna Winter School for Cultural Historical Studies is a programme to invite students to learn more about Austria and its history. This year’s focus is the “Discovery of Modernity – Vienna around 1900”. Especially Vienna was a metropole in the late 19th and beginning of 20th century. The city was a melting pot of many nationalities because of the Austrian Empire. Many new technologies, art forms and innovations came from Vienna, respectively from Austria, as well as in literature and psychology (e.g. Sigmund Freud). It was a time of many changes and new perspectives but also holding on to old values that frequently led to conflicts. Vienna around 1900 is a place with many interesting fields to discover and study. This programme gives you the opportunity to dive deep into Vienna around 1900.

Applications close November 30.