[BNC-all] BNC E-news for the week of January 18th

[Anthrop, Heather L]

All User Meeting
Building Closure
Holiday
Painting
Seminar
Telecommunications Upgrades Coming to Birck

All User Meeting
When: January 20th and 21th   7:00pm to 8:00pm
Where: Lily Hall 1-105
All facility users must plan to attend either session on the 20th or 21th or your Cleanroom and Lab Access will be suspended. You must be on time and have either your Birck or Purdue ID with you for attendance purposes.
Building Closure
NOTICE: Upcoming building closure! The BNC will be completely closed for one day in the near future - date to be established. Only people involved in the shutdown will be allowed in the building during the shutdown. All offices, laboratories, and the cleanroom will be closed.

This is an advance notice that within the next few weeks, Purdue Physical Facilities Department will be requesting an emergency power interruption to fix a high voltage power issue with our center's fire pump controller.  At this time, Physical Facilities is in the process of ordering parts to complete repairs.   Once parts are received and a plan of action is complete, we will send an update with a firm date and time for the power interruption.

Per safety codes, power to the fire pump transfer/control was hardwired directly from the electrical substation to the fire panel when the building was constructed. This wiring bypasses our main switchboard and provides no lockout point for the fire panel.  Therefore, for safety reasons the electric substation providing power to the fire pump has to be shutdown. The affected substation also supplies power to one of the building's three, 3000 amp switchboards.  The Purdue Physical Facilities department anticipates the building shutdown will last from 4 to 8 hours, but this downtime is subject to change once repairs start.  Only essential personnel will have access to the building during the power outage since the building will be without fire protection during that time.

All CLEANROOM and LABORATORY research work will be suspended and building access closed during power outage.  All exhausted hoods, vacuum systems, and/or toxic gas systems will be shut down, and chemicals inside fume hoods will need to be placed in sealed containers.

General areas that will be affected by the power outage are listed below.
-          All chemical exhaust systems for the labs and cleanroom.
-          Building ambient temperature and humidity control
o   Offices
o   General laboratories
o   Cleanroom
o   Atrium
-          Office power and lighting (all computers will lose power)
-          Atrium power and lighting
-          Card reader system

Systems NOT affected by the power outage are listed below.
-          Emergency power (on emergency generator power)
-          UPS power (on emergency generator power)
-          Equipment emergency power (on emergency generator power)
-          Cleanroom power (power from a different switchboard)
-          Laboratory power (power from a different switchboard)

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Mark Voorhis
Building Manager
Purdue University
Birck Nanotechnology Center
Office: (765) 494-3036

Holiday
In observance of Martin Luther King Day, Purdue University will be closed Monday, January 18th.

Painting
Starting next Tuesday we will have painters in the building to paint all of the 1st floor hallways.  Please be aware of the signs so you don't get in the wet paint.  Thank you for your understanding in helping make Birck look betterJ

Thank you,
Mary Jo Totten

Seminar

Anantha Krishnan
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Science & Technology in Support of National Security
Monday, January 25th at 11:00 am in MRGN 121
For more information please visit: https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/calendar/details/1408

Telecommunications Upgrades Coming to Birck

A new initiative across campus to upgrade Purdue's telephones into a comprehensive unified communications system will be coming to the Birck Nanotechnology Center in the next few weeks.  This new system will use Voice Over IP (VOIP) to provide unification of  phone calls, voicemail, Webex meetings, distribution control, video calls, messaging, etc.  This upgrade and modernization will be led by the Purdue IT group and ECN, with lots of support from Birck building services personnel.  Training on the new system will be provided.  Please watch for further updates and roll-out.


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