Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility

Location: Cal(IT)2 (BION)
Disruption/Outage: DI System
Dates: Thursday, December 17th, 2015 & Friday, December 18th, 2015
Duration: Scheduled to begin at 7:00am on Thursday, 12-17-2015 and ending by 6:00pm on Friday, 12-18-2015
Details: This outage is to perform sanitization of the DI systems throughout Cal(IT)2.

Location: Engineering Gateway (INRF)
Disruption/Outage: DI System
Dates: Monday, December 14th, 2015 & Tuesday, December 15th, 2015
Duration: Scheduled to begin at 7:00am on Monday, 12-14-2015 and ending by 6:00pm on Tuesday, 12-15-2015
Details: This outage is to perform sanitization of the DI systems throughout Engineering Gateway.

We appreciate your cooperation and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Tammy Kelleher, at 949-824-8715 or tkellehe@uci.edu. After Hours contact the Central Plant at 949-824-5520

 

The BION cleanroom will be closed this Saturday (12/12) and Sunday (12/13) due to work being performed by Facilities/Contractors at Calit2. It will reopen Monday (12/14).

The BION lab will be closed this Saturday (11/21) and Sunday (11/22) due to work being performed by Facilities/Contractors. It will reopen Monday (11/23).

Message from Calit2:

“Due to the current Calit2 construction project, access to Calit2 clean room load-in entry 1451 will be limited. Temporary walled door structures will be built at both ends of the Calit2 east corridor in order to better control the construction zone – (see below). All access to the 1451 clean room load-in door will need to be coordinated through Gregory Gallardo (Ext 4-4488) in advance until further notice and/or at least through February 2016. This will also temporarily change the emergency exiting procedure for clean room bays facing the south corridor. The Fire Marshall will be posting all appropriate signage.”

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Emergency Water Shutdown – UPDATE

The domestic water to Engineering Gateway has been repaired and is currently available for use.
Please be advised that the Industrial Water is still undergoing repairs.

Location: Engineering Gateway, Building #321

Disruption/Outage: Emergency Water Shutdown, Entire Building
Date(s): Thursday, September 10, 2015

Details: This outage is to perform emergency repairs to the buildings Backflow System. Repairs are in progress and will to take approximately 3 hours, ending at approximately 11:00am.

From Facilities:

This morning’s repair work on the industrial water system at Engineering Gateway revealed the immediate need to replace a main water valve.  As a result, all water will be shutdown to Engineering Gateway until approximately 11am this morning.  I will provide additional updates as I receive them.

Rooms 1421, 1422, 1431 & 1432 will closed Tuesday 9/8/2015 and Friday 9/11/2015 from 5am – 3pm due to Facilities work upstairs. They will be X-raying and coring the concrete above so be aware that there will be loud noises as well. Areas affected are highlighted in black on the below map (Click map to enlarge).

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In room 2320 the second bench from the door we had an acid spill in the storage area. The container was not in double containment, not properly labeled and the only identification marks were “XV2”. Using ph paper the acid level was 1 – 0. We believe the material was nano strip.

THE INRF IS NOT APPROVED FOR CORROSIVE ACID MATERIALS, ONLY SOLVENTS AND PHOTO RESIST 

Facilities is working on getting the ventilation issues worked out but we still have no time frame as to when this will be resolved.

The Inorganic bench is back up. The HF bench is still down until Facilities makes the adjustments to have it re-certified.

From Facilities:

“The failure to the high temp hot water loop to the campus has been repaired. We are currently warming the system to full operating temperature.

All affected systems will be back to normal service by 4:00am on Tuesday, June 16th.”