[BNC-all] BNC e-news for the week of Sept. 14th

[Anthrop, Heather L]

Center for Healthy Living (Faculty and Staff only)
Vice President of Human Resources Trent Klingerman is doing a comprehensive review of the Center for Healthy Living. Please provide feedback and input regarding service, pros, & cons of the Center for Healthy Living so that Purdue can improve your experience and their service.

Please email healthyboiler at purdue.edu<mailto:healthyboiler at purdue.edu>

All feedback will be kept confidential

Floor Waxing - 1st floor
If you have an office on the 1st floor, please note the day we are waxing your hallway.  You will not have access to your office until after 9:00AM.

BRK 1220 - BRK 1238 Monday September 14th
BRK 1072 - BRK 1092 Tuesday September 15th
BRK 1014-BRK 1027 and BRK 1031 - BRK 1045 Wednesday September 16th
BRK 1287 - 1299 and BRK 1262 - 1273  Thursday September 17th
If you have any questions or concerns please see Mary Jo before the waxing begins.

PM Shut Down Notice 10.19 - 10.23

The Birck Nanotechnology Center will be undergoing a semi-annual preventive maintenance and service shutdown October 19 through October 23, 2015. Air handling systems, exhaust systems, toxic gas delivery, and monitoring systems will be down beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, October 19 through 4 p.m. Friday, October 23. The BNC staff will be performing appropriate preventive maintenance on the process equipment at this time as well.

All CLEANROOM research work will be suspended until the maintenance activities are completed and all systems are returned to normal. No one will be allowed to enter the cleanroom during this time period.

In addition, the laboratory areas will also be affected by this systems maintenance. As such, all LABORATORY activities that involve exhausted hoods, vacuum systems, and/or
toxic gas systems will be down beginning 7 a.m. Monday, October 19 through 4 p.m. Friday, October 23. However, work that involves taking standard electrical measurements
may be carried out in the LABS provided that fluctuating air temperature and humidity do not affect the readings. No chemical work will be allowed during this period.

It is anticipated that the building and process tool maintenance will be completed by the end of the day on Friday, October 23. Please check Coral for equipment status and
availability.

For long term research planning please refer the following future dates for our future preventive maintenance shutdowns.

Spring PM: May 2, 2016 Fall PM Oct 17, 2016
Spring PM: May 1, 2017 Fall PM Oct 16, 2017

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding during these important preventive maintenance shutdowns.

Purdue University Surplus Store
Purdue University Surplus Store will be moving in October to better serve faculty, staff and students with a convenient campus location at Material Management and Distribution Center (MMDC). To prepare for the move, the store is holding a sale at the current location at 3601 Sagamore Parkway North, Suite K, in Lafayette.

The store's moving sale will have several weeks of graduated discounts on all items:

Sept. 8-11 - 75% off
Sept. 14-18 - All remaining merchandise will be sold for $1.

Discover, MasterCard, Visa, check and cash will be accepted for payment. Items must be removed on the day of purchase, and buyers are responsible for loading their own purchases. There are limited quantities of all items.

The store is open to the public noon-4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Purdue University Surplus Store will suspend operations at its Sagamore Parkway location at 4 p.m. Sept. 18 and open at MMDC at noon Oct. 5.

VB-6

The vacuum issue has been solved by replacing a leaky ion pump.  The service engineer is here this week addressing an issue with the robot movement/control.  We will keep you apprised of the progress.

Display Cases

You probably have noticed the nice new display cases located in the first-floor atrium.  These will feature displays about different research projects and other activities/capabilities within Birck.  There are a couple of examples of displays already in the cases, but we have room for many more.  If you have ideas of items you want to showcase please contact Swati Pol:  spol at purdue.edu<mailto:spol at purdue.edu>

Clutter in Hoods

This week's survey mentioned clutter and housekeeping issues within some of the hoods in the cleanroom.  As a reminder, please clean up and tidy up your work areas and make sure you label all your experiments in the hoods.  The success of your research and that of others depends on all of us being good citizens in our multi-user facility.   Thanks for your attention to this and your cooperation.


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