Facilities Management (FM) 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 five (5) hours from 7am until 12 pm on Saturday 5 April. 

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

Affected Buildings:

• SC07 – Beatrice Tinsley
• SC08 – Julius Von Haast
• SC22 – Putaiao Koiora

FM recommend that people in the affected buildings:

• Turn off IT equipment prior to leaving on Friday 4 April in preparation for this outage.

• Ensure any equipment UPS is operating correctly.

• Plan to shut down and reset any specialist equipment.

  Information relating to building name and location can be accessed via the FM intranet page – Campus Drawings – Facilities Management Intranet – UC Intranet (canterbury.ac.nz)

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

Thank you for your understanding as we undertake this required maintenance to the substation

Facilities Management

Facilities Management contractors will complete essential concrete repairs to the exterior of the West building between 2 April and 4 July 2025.

Contractors will be preparing for the establishment of site fencing from 2 April and works are expected to commence 7 April. This includes pressure washing of the exterior of the building. The works area is circled in red on the inset plan with entry/exit points marked in yellow.

A cherry picker /knuckleboom will be used to access the higher elevations and machinery used to carry out works will be noisy at times.

While the works are in progress please follow all access signage. Do not enter any fenced off work areas and be aware of all machinery in use on site.

Thank you for your consideration as we complete these essential repair works.

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

Facilities Management

Facilities Management (FM) contractors will be dismantling and removing the remaining scaffolding from around the FM Office Block building between 7am Tuesday 1 April and 4pm Wednesday 2 April.

Please ensure that you take care if you are moving through the FM yard or visiting FM and entering or exiting the FM Office Block or using the walkway between the FM Building and the Science Road carpark during the deconstruction times.

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

Thank you for your consideration of the contractors working on the deconstruction.

Facilities Management