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Facilities & Projects Team Blog – Student Centre Closed for Lift Repairs  

By Collette E M Lawrence, on 8 September 2023

Student Centre Closed for Lift Repairs

On Saturday 9th September 2023, the Student Centre will be Closed from 7.00am and reopening on Sunday 10th September 2023 at 7.00am, please be aware of this if you are directing colleagues and students to this space, and if you are within the building.

This closure is to enable noisy works to be carried out  and also allow the flood repairs to Lift 3 and the track guide repairs to be completed at the same time, finally reinstating lift 3 back into service.

We apologies for any inconvenience caused by these works and we appreciate your continued support and patience.

If you have any issues or queries regarding this, please contact the LCCOS Facilities & Projects Team. Our team information can be found at the following link Facilities & Project Team

Facilities & Projects Team Blog – Cruciform Building Electrical System Testing

By Collette E M Lawrence, on 29 August 2023

Cruciform Building Electrical System Testing

Some of you may already be aware, as this has taken place on some of our LCCOS sites already, we are currently working with Estates colleagues to carry out essential electrical testing across the UCL community. These tests are to ensure that all distribution boards, data facilities, electric circuits, power, and lighting are working correctly and meet legal requirements.

There are plans to carry out essential works on the Cruciform Buildings electrical systems on Saturday 2nd September 2023. This is to allow us to undertake these works, the building will be closed to isolate power to areas of the Cruciform.

 Please be aware that the Cruciform Building will be closed for the duration of the full building shut down on Saturday 2nd September 2023, and reopening, as usual, on Sunday 3rd September 2023.

We apologies for any inconvenience caused by these works and we appreciate your continued support and patience. If you have any issues or queries regarding this, please contact the Library Facilities & Projects Team.

Facilities & Project Blog – School of Pharmacy Fixed Wire Testing

By Collette E M Lawrence, on 14 June 2023

Some of you may already be aware, as this has taken place on many of our LCCOS sites already, we are currently working with Estates colleagues to carry out essential fixed wire testing across the UCL community. These tests are to ensure that all distribution boards, data facilities, electrical circuits, power, and lighting are working correctly and meet legal requirements.

The School of Pharmacy Building will experience a full building shut down, on each riser, on the following times and dates:

  • Riser A, Friday 16th June 2023, between 09.00-12.00
  • Riser D, Wednesday 21st June 2023, between 09.00-12.00
  • Riser C, Friday 23rd June 2023, between 09.00-12.00

The library will be closed for this testing to take place, and only essential staff will be permitted on site, resulting in the library space being closed for the duration of the above times and dates.

We apologies for any inconvenience caused by these works and we appreciate your continued support and patience.

If you have any issues or queries regarding this, please contact the Library Facilities & Projects Team.

Facilities & Projects Team Blog – Student Centre Fixed Wire Testing

By Collette E M Lawrence, on 19 May 2023

Student Centre Fixed Wire testing in June 2023

Some of you may already be aware, as this has taken place on some of our LCCOS sites already, we are currently working with Estates colleagues to carry out essential fixed wire testing across the UCL community. These tests are to ensure that all distribution boards, data facilities, electric circuits, power, and lighting are working correctly and meet legal requirements.

As part of the ongoing Estates fixed wire testing, the program has now reached the Student Centre.

From Thursday 1st – Friday 9th June 2023, the Student Centre will be having testing taking place, for health and safety reasons, and to try and minimise disruption to staff and students, due to sporadic loss of power and lighting please be aware of this if you are working in the areas of testing on the specific days.

In an attempt to try and minimise disruption for staff and students the F&P team have been working hard to plan these essential works with Estates and the contractors, HMC Compliance Limited. And have split the testing into floors and sections, as best we could.

We apologies for any inconvenience caused by these works and we appreciate your continued support and patience.

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If you have any issues or queries regarding this, please contact the LCCOS Facilities & Projects Team. Our team information can be found at the following link Facilities & Project Team.

Facilities & Projects Team Blog – Meeting room updates  

By Collette E M Lawrence, on 5 April 2023

Meeting room updates: Please see below important information with regards to the availability of the following rooms:

  • Room 115 in Wilkins Building, this room is now available to book 5 days a week.
  • Room 106 in Science Library will not be available from 30th May 2023 – 25th September 2023. This is due to AHRC funded project taking place in Petrie Museum, and this room has been booked out to support this refurbishment project.

If you have any issues or queries regarding this, please contact the Library Facilities & Projects Team. Our team information can be found at the following link Facilities & Projects Team

Facilities & Projects Team Blog – IoE Master Plan 2023

By Collette E M Lawrence, on 19 January 2023

Below is important in formation with regards to Senate House Hub and IoE.

It has been agreed at very short notice to lend part of Senate House Hub to the IoE Masterplan team to use a staff decant space unit October 2023.

This plan was only suggested last Thursday and agreed on the same day with Senior Management approval.

The rooms being handed over 303, 304, 305, 307 & 308. These will house about 25-30 staff from the IoE who are due to be homeless. The Masterplan Team are hoping to start the moves on Saturday 21st January 2023. This may be held up by the ability for Access Systems to get locks fitted.

We have already requested that 308 student bookable meeting room be removed from the system. The remainder of the student space in the Senate House Hub, including bookable room 310 and 312, will be unaffected and remain open to UCL post-graduate research students and staff.

We will provide more details when we have them.

We thank you for your continued support and patience, but if you have any issues or queries regarding this, please contact a member of the team. Our team information can be found at the following link Facilities & Projects Team

Facilities & Projects Team Blog – Fixed Wire Testing-Science Library Shut Down

By Collette E M Lawrence, on 8 December 2022

Fixed Wire Testing-Science Library Shut Down

As part of the current fixed wire testing, and to incorporate these essential works, the Science Library will be closed from 21.00 on Sunday the 11th December 2022 and will re-open at 15.00 on Monday 12th December 2022.

This will allow the works to be completed, which includes the fixed wire testing on the ground floor and entrance areas, as well as a full electrical shut down of the building, whilst ensuring all disruption is kept to a minimum and safety of staff and students is a priority, the tests include the security and access gates, as well as high occupancy areas, including the mezzanine cluster and the teaching space, along with the loss of lighting

Staff will not be permitted to work in the building on the day of the closure, for safety reasons, however, please be aware that your offices will be available on completion of the shutdown, after 15.00.

All systems will be back up and running and the building reopened from 15.00 on Monday the 12th December 2022.

We thank you for your continued support and patience, but if you have any issues or queries regarding this, please contact a member of the team. Our team information can be found at the following link Facilities & Projects Team

UCL East Count Down – Opening Soon!

By Kate Cheney, on 31 October 2022

After a short pause the clock is ticking again and One Pool Street will be open and operational from Monday 14 November.

This includes the library space and services managed by Igho Wekpe. At the point of opening we will launch UCL East as a Click & Collect pick-up and return location to support our students living and studying at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The Library’s LibAnswers queue is already live and active, and the site web page has been updated with opening hours information now visible.

Next week, 7-11 November, will see lots of activity behind the scenes as LCCOS colleagues set up the library, participate in essential H&S inductions and familiarise themselves with their new work and teaching spaces, while students will be moving into the accommodation towers.

Until the Marshgate building opens in 2023, facilities at the new campus will be based at One Pool Street, the location marked with a dot nearest to the London Aquatics Centre on the map showing the UCL East campus and UCL at Here East nearby.

Accommodation for staff includes an 18-desk agile space available on a first-come first-served basis, equipped with 34” screens, docking ports for laptops, keyboards and mice. There is also a café on site and additional support provided at the campus includes a dedicated wellbeing lead. Staff visiting the campus for work purposes can make a claim for expenses incurred on top of their normal costs of travel to work by following the UCL expenses policy.

 

Main Library first floor lobby entrance painting works

By Phil Watson, on 21 September 2022

Please be advised that from 09:00 this morning, the 21st September 2022, the first floor lobby area, Main Library entrance, there will be the completion to the painting works taking place.

The painting will only take place on the side of the exhibition case, meaning the works will not impact on the entrance, the lift, or restrict access in any way, and opening hours will remain as per usual.

The works will take 2-3 hours to complete and will be non-intrusive.

We apologise for the short notice to these essential works, if you do experience any issues in relation to this project, please do not hesitate in contacting a member of the F&P team and we will be more than happy to assist you.

UCL East Count Down – Library Support & Induction

By Craig Martin, on 5 September 2022

As we are approaching the final couple of weeks before we open the doors and meet new students, this is my opportunity to explain a little about the work which has been done in preparation relating to library support and induction at UCL East.

Over the past few months, we have been busy preparing resources to support students, with the exciting new postgraduate programmes that will be launching.  UCL East will initially have a ‘Click and Collect’ Service, for the first year with no physical library until 2023, when the Marshgate building opens, which Igho discussed in his blog post a few weeks ago.  This has led us to think creativity about resource provision for students.

I have been working closely with Course Programme Leads, Acquisitions, e-Resources and TLS to ensure we have as many online materials as possible to support items on reading lists – if these are eBooks, journals, databases, or digitised resources, as well as establishing links with Special Collections about the support they can provide.  Working with TLS, we have run information sessions to support new colleagues at UCL East to curate their reading lists, and to understand some of the features of Reading Lists@UCL.

The Library will be having a presence at the induction fair at UCL East on 30th September to meet and greet new students and advise them about the services available to them, so please do come along and say hello if you’re on campus.  Induction sessions have been planned for the first few weeks as well as the start of integrated library skills support, woven into programmes to support students throughout their studies.  We have spent time, as part of the Induction Working Group to ensure webpages have been updated, to incorporate UCL East to help students feel they are fully part of the UCL community.  With so many of the programmes being uniquely multi-disciplinary, this has involved collaboration with other Subject Liaison Librarians and Site Librarians to draw upon their expertise and specialist knowledge.

Craig Martin
Subject Liaison Librarian, UCL East