Facilities Management advise that, as a continuation of the lift upgrade works in progress, Contractors will be undertaking maintenance and upgrade works in the Puaka-James Hight building during January 2025 that will impact on the listed floors, with outages and closures as follows:

​​​Level 11

Saturday 4 January Power Outage from 6am until 11am – Isolation of the power boards on level 11.

​​Monday 6 January to Wednesday 8 January – floor closure – level 11 will be closed for the replacement of the level 11 power board.

​Level 10

Wednesday 8 January to Friday 10 January – floor closure– level 10 will be closed for the replacement of the level 10 power board.

​​Level 5

Monday 6 January to Friday 10 January – closure of floor lobbies for maintenance work in the two lift cores. One lobby will be closed off at a time. The East lobby will be closed first, followed by the West lobby.

This will mean 1 x core lift will be available for access on L5. The “staff lift” in the Northwest corner will also be open for use.

​​​Level 6

Monday 13 January to Wednesday 15 Jan – floor closure – level 6 will be closed for maintenance works.

​​​​Level 4

Wednesday 15 January to Friday 17 January-floor closure – level 4 will be closed for maintenance works.

A full access outage will be in place for staff and students during each individual floor closure. This means you will not be able to access floors 4,5,6,10 and 11 during the times listed above.

What do you need to do?

• Please adhere to all works signage and closures.
• Use the listed available lifts for access when the lift lobbies in level 5 are closed for works.
• Plan for power outages that affect levels 10 and 11 as listed.
• Turn off IT equipment on levels 10 and 11 before leaving prior to the power outages.

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

Thank you for your consideration as these lift upgrade works continue.

Facilities Management

There will be a complete water outage for the John Britten Building between 8am and 5pm on Thursday 9 January 2025 while external contractor (Aquapro) undertakes maintenance and repair work on John Britten Back Flow (situated on the corner of Creyke Road and Engineering Road).

During the water shutdown please use toilets in other buildings and make alternative arrangements for tearoom access or supplies.

Do not turn on any taps in the building. if you do, please turn off immediately to avoid flooding when the water is turned back on.

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

Thank you for your patience as we perform these required compliance maintenance repairs.

Facilities Management

Facilities Management Grounds staff will be undertaking general maintenance tree works on Science Road and Engineering Road between Monday 6 January and Friday 10 January.

This preventative safety and tree health work will include pruning, removal of dying branches, canopy reduction, and the removal of a dying Fiver Finger located in the Science Road carpark. These are standard practises for ensuring the good health of the University tree stock.

Traffic Management will be in place with closures for Science Road and the Engineering Road footpath for approximately two hours each during the works.

Facilities Management have adopted a two for one replacement policy to compensate for the loss of a tree. In line with this policy a  Psuedopanax will be planted in the Science carpark, and two Plagianthus will be planted on the Okeover Stream bank Opposite SEL

Please adhere to all traffic management and signage and do not enter any fenced work areas. There will be some noise from chainsaw and chipper machinery being used for the works.

Direct any enquiries to fmassist@canterbury.ac.nz

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

Facilities Management