Due to the Central Plant hot water shutdown the INRF is extremely cold. Please review your process and if you believe that it might be affected please wait until we get notice that the heat is back on. Below is the message from Facilities
Engineering Community,
During startup of the high temperature hot water, Central Plant experienced a critical systems failure that will cause the high temp system to be down for up to another two days. Building heat, autoclaves, cage washers and industrial and domestic hot water will continue to be out of service during this time. I will forward an update once I am notified.
Due to the flood in the front office the contractors will be dry-walling and painting all day today.
The INRF cleanroom will be closed tomorrow in order for Facilities to work on the compressor. BION will remain open.
The third floor of EG experienced a flood on Tuesday night that caused some damage to the INRF offices. The INRF front office will be under construction until Monday (6/13) to make repairs caused by the flood. There will be limited access and office staff might have to work from home due to the noise and activity levels. The cleanroom was unaffected so operations will remain as usual.
We will now be checking out keys to those interested in using the lab afterhours and on the weekends. Please see Ryan before 4pm the day you plan to use it and you will be issued one. Please return it the next day (with exception to the weekend) to make it available to other users. The doors will be locked during the week around 6pm. If you do not have an afterhours key you will be locked out if you leave the cleanroom and this could result in a safety issue if equipment was left running. Key holders will be responsible for locking up and shutting down if you are the last one in the lab.
The STS and BMR are back online.
The E-Beam 1 is now back up. The Trion and Mark 50 are still down.
INRF Staff
In the coming weeks we will be moving the cabinets and lockers located INRF cleanroom hallway in order for the new flooring to be installed. If you or your group have a locker or cabinet located there please come and clean them out for the time being. Once we find a new temporary location for the lockers you can return the contents. Please remove all items by Wednesday, May 4th. After that we will be cutting the locks and removing the items. See pictures below.
In the coming weeks we will be moving the cabinets and lockers located INRF cleanroom hallway in order for the new flooring to be installed. If you or your group have a locker or cabinet located there please come and clean them out for the time being. Once we find a new temporary location for the lockers you can return the contents. Please remove all items by Wednesday, May 6th. After that we will be cutting the locks and removing the items. See pictures below.
The INRF cleanroom will be open tomorrow (04/27) at 8am. We are still in the process of bringing tools back online but as of now most of them are still down. The MA6 is available and the Ebeam & STS should be back soon (we will let you know). Please come by the front desk and see Ryan so we can transfer your gown to the temporary gowning room at the end of the hall in rm2310. At this time there will be no after-hours access until the flooring has been completed and we are hoping to have a scope of work within a week or so.
