Facilitates Management wish to inform you on a Lift Outage scheduled to take place from Monday 8 September

Lift #12, located in the eastern lift bank in Puaka-James Hight, will be out of service from 8am Monday 8 September until 5pm Monday 1 December, while Facilities Management contractors OTIS complete maintenance to Lift #12.

Some key information for staff:

• OTIS will be commencing in the Eastern End plantroom first.
• Hoarding will be placed outside Lift 12 on Level 1 and level 11.
• Lift 10 will be fully functional from Friday 5 September

What do you need to do?

While lifts 12 is out of service for these planned works, and you need to change floors or enter or exit the building:

• Use an alternative lift.
• Use the stairs.
• Follow usual evacuation procedures in the event of an emergency.

This is part of a sequential programme of works to upgrade lift equipment for all lifts in the Puaka-James Hight building, and will be completed over a 12-month period.

Addressing the works one lift at a time, each lift is expected to be out of service for 3 months.

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

 Thank you for your patience and consideration as we undertake this planned programme of works to upgrade all lifts n Puaka-James Hight.

Facilities Management

Facilitates Management wish to inform you that essential maintenance work will be completed following a significant leak through one of the risers in West.  This affects rooms 808 and 708/781.

To facilitate the repairs, access will be restricted to the North ends of the 8th and 7th floors (Physics side) during this period.

Maintenance Schedule:
Tuesday 2 September – Friday 19 September

Areas affected:

• SC02 West – Northern Side rooms 808 and 708/781

What do you need to do:

• Follow any signage in place.
• Do not walk inside any coned off work areas.
• Follow usual evacuation procedures in the event of an emergency.

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

Thank you for your consideration as we undertake these maintenance works.

Facilities Management

Facilities Management Contractors (Connectics) are completing some essential planned maintenance to the 11Kv substation to ensure that our infrastructure remains compliant, reliable, and resilient.  

To complete this work the listed buildings will experience a complete loss of power for approximately 5 hours from 7am until 12pm on Saturday 6 September. 

Affected buildings should be considered to be closed for the duration of the power outage.

 Affected Buildings:

• Haere-roa (SS27)
• Health Centre (SS25)
• Warehouse K1 (GS50)
• Recreation Centre (SS01–SS04)

Please note the Rec Centre will be closed on Saturday morning until 12 mid-day

Facilities Management recommend that people in the affected buildings:   

• Turn off IT equipment in preparation for this outage. 

• Ensure any equipment UPS is operating correctly. 

• Plan to shut down and reset any specialist equipment.   
   

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

Thank you for your understanding as we complete these required electrical maintenance works.

 Facilities Management