Archibus: Continuing to work with our vendor on critical updates to Archibus before we can continue training.

The “sandbox” training/practicing environment is temporarily unavailable. We will notify you as soon as it is available for use.

Uniform Replacements for 2014:

Please be aware that we have started replacing uniforms for employees who wear either cotton or polyester blend uniforms (FR rental uniforms are replaced on an as needed basis by Cintas).

In August, Landscape Services, Steam Plant, and Plumbing Services employees received new uniforms. We expect to order uniforms going forward for the rest of our department according to the schedule below.

September: Arena, Custodial Services Athletics, Construction, part of Zone Maintenance.

October: Air Conditioning Services, Building Finishes, the second part of Zone Maintenance, and ZM Dining Halls.

November: Part of Building Services, Sanitation Safety, Abatement, Lock & Key Services, and ZM Residence Halls.

December: the second part of Building Services, RRT, Central Supply, and ZM Athletics.

Please contact Amanda Ruelle in Business Services at 974-2802 or aruelle@utk.edu with any questions.

Sign Shop:

Made stickers for Recycling.

Making signs for Parking Services.

Working on various name plates.

Paint Shop:

Painting common areas at Jessie Harris.

Repaired plaster & painted room 43 at Alumni Memorial.

Painting exterior doors at Morgan Hall.

Repaired and painted wall at Plant Bio Tech.

Repaired and painted sheetrock at Brehm Animal Science.

Building Finishes:

Replaced three doors and frames at Andy Holt Apt.

Replaced door at South College.

Replaced door at Carrick Hall North.

Repaired wall at Dunford Hall.

Replaced sheetrock at Greve Hall.

Replaced sheetrock at 2111 Stephenson Drive.

Replaced door at Communications.

Replaced door at 22nd Street Duplex.

Repaired walkway pavers on Ag. Campus.

Arena:

Comcast Classic Volleyball:

Thursday, September 18th

Austin Peay at 7 p.m.

Friday, September 19th

AP Vs. Montana State at 10 a.m.

Memphis Vs. Mercer at 12:30 p.m.

Mercer Vs. AP at 5:00 p.m.

Vs. Memphis at 7 p.m.

Saturday, September 20th

Montatna State Vs. Memphis at 10 a.m.

Vs. Mercer at 12:30 p.m.

AP Vs. Memphis 12:30 p.m.

Vs. Montana State at 7 p.m.

Recycling totals for the week of September 8 through 12:

Bottles/Cans: 8,380 pounds.

Paper: 10,900 pounds.

Cardboard: 21,600 pounds.

Welcome new foreman Scott McCormick.

Thorton Athletics—begin landscape installation.

UTIA – Assist electric with lighting install along Jacob Drive .

UTIA—Install concrete curb, topsoil and river rock along Jacob Drive following electric install.

Pasqua – Repair irrigation and landscape following storm sewer repairs.

Football Season preparation and clean-up support.

Begin campus wide lawn over-seeding and fertilization of irrigated areas.

Begin lawn restoration work at Circle Park and Fiji Island.

Removal of early leaf drop throughout campus.

Residence Halls— new lock installations.

Plumbing Shop—set up padlocks.

Hodges Library—repair lock.

South College—install new lock and plate.

Austin Peay—various file cabinets, replaced lock and key.

Hanging banners.

Events at Haslam, Neyland Stadium and Ayres Hall.

Moves at East Stadium, Plant Biotech, SERF and Jes-sie Harris.

Project at Communications.

Completing work orders as they come in.

Controls at SERF

522 SERF

Berry Hall

Buehler 204 and 214

Dougherty 322 B and C

SERF 201

Zone 3:

Hopecote in process of getting new roof.

Building at 1817 Melrose Avenue in process of getting new roof.

Leslie rebuilt at Aquatic.

Replacing lights and making other repairs in Sororities.

Making repairs in a couple fraternity houses.

Working to correct issues due to water leak at Glazer.

Repairing lights and replacing ceiling tile at Facilities Services Building.

Remove portion of wall and install access panel at HPER.

Zone 4:

Hodges: Changing all pre-filters, greasing all motors, checking air handler belts.

Baker Center: Changing burnt out ballasts and stained ceiling tiles.

International House: Repaired urinal on first floor.

Dunford: We are still replacing LED lighting in the stairwells as the old lights burn out.

Melrose Hall: General Maintenance.

Tyson House: changed filters to induction unit.

Zone 5:

Induction water control valves rebuilt in room 428 and 503 in (SMC).

Ice machine repair & air bleed installed on air handler #8 (Haslam).

Two air handler water control valves rebuilt in Bailey.

General maintenance ( lights, belts, toilets, etc.).

Zone 6:

Maintaining environmental equipment.

Addressing work orders.

Hesler, DI maintenance.

Alumni Memorial Medal of Honor Ceremony set up.

Zone 8:

Middlebrook Pike Building paint project is complete. This project made a big difference in the appearance of the building.

At the University Avenue Buildings designers are working on drawings to get the buildings ready for their new tenants.

Morgan Hall is getting the roof renovated. That will allow us to make needed repairs on its interior.

Plant BioTech stairwells are getting some attention. We are ordering tile to replace the existing vinyl flooring.

We will be working on our outside lighting over the next week. Exterior lighting is a very important part of our job.

Our New Facilities Building is taking shape the contractor is moving at a good pace. Most of the out-side demo work is complete. They are making pro-gress inside as well.

Zone 9:

Assisting contractors in C.B. T.

Cleaning strainers in air handlers throughout the zone.

Changing filters.

Reordering uniforms

General maintenance.

Zone 11:

Working on stadium after last ball game.

Repairing lights in the indoor football facility.

Getting softball, soccer, and tennis ready for next weekend.

Assist Construction Services with network ports.

Setting up computers for Berry Hall.

Work with Strong Hall construction webcam.

Exporting data for new Building Access System.

Computer setup, printer troubleshooting.

Conflict of interest forms were due in last Friday Sep-tember 12th. If you still have them in your possession please complete and turn them in immediately to Arlene.

Hazard Waste training this week in the Ray Mears room. Please check your email for more information.

Work continues on the Landscape Training Program.

Planning continues for the Supervisor’s Toolkit Con-ference scheduled for November 3-7.

Construction Services and Steam Plant career ladders are going through the approval process.

We are accepting applications for the vacant Training Specialist position. Please apply through the univer-sity’s website.

Chuck Thompson Award nominations are now being accepted. Nomination forms have been emailed to all employees. Hard copies can be found with Unit Clerks, in the Associate Vice Chancellor’s office, and with Brooke in Facilities Room 203.

You may also submit award nominations online at tiny.utk.edu/ChuckThompson. The deadline to sub-mit nominations is 5 p.m. Wednesday, October 8. The award ceremony will be held in late October.

We are adding additional information to our depart-ment’s SACS accreditation documents.

The reformatting and editing of departmental policies continues.

Work continues on the Facilitator. The bi-monthly newsletter will be distributed the last week of Sep-tember.

If you would like to include an item in the newsletter, please email Brooke at bsteve14@utk.edu by Sept. 24.

Work continues on the Facilities Services Employee Handbook.

We are working with Creative Communications on sev-eral projects for different Facilities Services units.

We are still in the process of updating our Building Representative List.

We are assisting Landscape Services with the creation of a student survey.

We are working on a video that showcases the new boiler at the Steam Plant.

Remember: You can always nominate a member of our team for Facilities Services Employee of the Month. Nomination forms can be found with your Unit Clerks, with Brooke in room 203, and online at fs.utk.edu.

Replace motor on cooling tower at Hesler Chiller House.

Replace compressor in AAON unit at forensics lab in Oak Ridge.

Repair A/C unit in elevator equipment room at South Carrick.

Complete installation of new condensing units at Ferris Hall.

Replaced condensing unit at Dougherty Hall damaged by lawnmower.

Repaired RTU A/C at Flemming warehouse.

Ordered materials for fan coil installation at Morgan Hall.

Repaired P-TAC units for housing.

UTFS Security systems – Campus.

UTFS Fire Alarm Systems – FA System minor repairs/Testing various buildings on Campus.

UTFS SV Events.

New Construction – Fire Alarm/Building Security support.

UTFS HV Outdoor Lighting – Ag Campus.

UTFS HV Installation of new 13.2KV Switch HV Aquatic Center

UTFS Metering/Wireless

UTFS HV Installation of 13.2KV Switch HV switch Neyland Stadium (Middle Dr and Phillip Fulmer)

UTFS HV Neyland Stadium – AT&T Building

UTFS HV Installation/Contractor support – new 13.2KV Temp power for new Gibbs.

The first new boiler has arrived and is setting in place at the Steam Plant. The contractor has a lot of work hooking everything up.

The contractors will be working 4 x 10 hour shifts and 2 x 8 hour shifts to get the boiler ready to produce steam before Thanksgiving.

We produced 1,449,196 pounds of steam Sept. 10 and had 73,594 gallons of make-up water.

In the process of building up our coal stockpile for win-ter heating season and this will be the last winter sea-son we burn coal.

Master Planning:

Utilities Master Plan.

Hill Master Plan.

Programming:

The new Engineering Services Building.

The West Campus Redevelopment.

Schematic Design:

University Ave. buildings.

Austin Peay handicap ramp.

Baseball Stadium pressbox.

Design Development:

The new classroom/laboratory building planned for the Strong Hall site.

Construction Documents:

The new residence hall and parking garage planned for the former Gibbs Hall and Stokely Athletic Center sites, respectively.

The new Facilities Services Sutherland building (ER4).

13th & Cumberland lab building.

Construction Administration:

The Henson Hall interior renovation.

The new classroom/laboratory building planned for the Strong Hall site.

The bookstore and Aramark location at 17th & Cumberland.

The new University Center (Phase 1).

The new Facilities Services Sutherland building (ER1).

The Fred Brown Residence Hall.

The new TV studio in the Anderson Training Center.

The new residence hall and parking garage planned for the former Gibbs Hall and Stokely Athletic Center sites, respectively.

Volleyball Practice Facility.

JIAMS Building.

Ayres Hall North Slope / West Connector project: hardscape punchlist on West Connector project.

East Edge Campus Improvement Project (Second Creek) moving into CD phase.

Supervising the design of additional improvements to the Lake Loudoun Blvd. corridor, to include a green space and traffic signalization. Coordinating traffic signal swap.

Supervising the new Strong Hall’s site development and tree protection.

Updating the Campus Landscape Vision and Site Standards.

Wayfinding Master Plan: review of final draft and in-ventory of existing building signs.

Preparing bid documents for TREC landscape installa-tion. Working with in-house Grounds crew to install landscape improvements at Thornton Athletic Center.

Preparing cost estimates for fraternity park common area improvements.

In-house projects:

Min Kao- Add cooling water for electrical experiments in rooms 101, 117, 117A, 117B, and 125.

Racheff Research- New sidewalk needs to connect to new building entry.

Austin Peay- Make improvements for ADA route.

Art and Architecture- Studio electrical renovations all 3rd and 4th floor studios.

Art and Architecture- Replacement or upgrade of card swipes on 2nd floor, 1st floor, and add to administrative office, room 224.

Art and Architecture- New electrical panel and add sev-eral drop down outlets from ceiling.

Humanities- Replace steps and ADA ramp for Lot 9 at south end of building.

Blount Hall- Install glass doors on ground floor.

Hodges Library- Purchase and install cameras in other areas in library.

HPER- Renovations to room 135 to accommodate teaching and laboratory.

Haslam Business- Construct wall from floor to ceiling in room 607.

South and East Stadium- Assist with construction of new AT&T shelter.

Communications- WUOT wants to remove equipment in auxiliary broadcast site at channel 10, this is to in-stall new transmitter equipment.

Conference Center- Soundproof room 208 for Psycho-logical Clinic.

Andy Holt Apartments- Install three swings in front of building.

Bid projects:

Henson Hall- Renovations to building.

Neyland Stadium- DAS installation throughout stadi-um.

Thompson-Boling Arena- DAS installation throughout arena.

11th Street Garage- Installation of solar panel, charging stations, connect to Min Kao building for experiments.

Dougherty Engineering- Unit Ops on 1st floor.

Dougherty Engineering- Unit Ops on entire 6th floor.

Dougherty Engineering- Lab renovation on 3rd floor.

17th and Cumberland- New campus eatery and Vol Shop.

Campus Roofs- 16 roofs either working or scheduling to start.

Completed Projects (9-2-14):

Tickle Engineering- Add compressed air connection from building system in room 508.

Student Services- Install new message board, install power and data at this location.

Conference Center- Replace damaged sidewalk around exterior of building.

Min Kao- Add access controls to 15 rooms throughout building.

Communications- Upgrade 4th floor lobby outside of room 451.

Neyland Stadium- Skybox renovation on West sky-box, 501 and 502.

Art and Architecture- Classroom upgrade, room 325.

Humanities- Renovate five classrooms and four semi-nar rooms.

SERF- Skylight repairs.

Peyton Manning Pass- Touch up paint on checker board.

Walters Life- Paint M409 and office suite.

Walters Life- Remove and replace carpet in room M409.

Walters Life-Paint all walls in rooms F319, F317, and M407.

Early Learning Center- Remove old flooring and re-place with new VCT flooring.

Stokely Management Center- Install duplex outlets on columns, and deactivate floor outlets in room 716.

Alumni Memorial- Paint walls in room 138, get more furniture moved into room.

Jessie Harris- Paint room 428.

Jessie Harris- Remove boards and paint wall in rooms 115A and 115D.

WOUT Transmitter Building- Prepare surfaces and paint the transmitter.

Brehm Animal- Install new 220v outlet near hood in lab 156.

Haslam Business- Install 12ov outlet on column in front of Einstein’s.

Dunford Hall- Install an electrical outlet for refrigera-tor in room 2333.

McClung Tower- replace carpet in room 116C.

South & East Stadium- Install wire for 2- 3 phase 200 amp disconnects for sound system.

Roofs- Completed 14 roofs over this past summer.