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July 2-8, 2006
WEEKLY UPDATES FROM FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
“No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.”
Ronald Reagan
CAMPUS WILL BE CLOSED TUESDAY, JULY 4, 2006, IN OBSERVANCE OF THE INDEPENDENCE DAY HOLIDAY.
WHAT’S NEW?
THERE’S A METHOD TO
THE MADNESS…
Those who notice
the Assistant Director for Building Services and
Grounds, Steve Brandenburg, walking through campus marking trees with
orange paint should not be alarmed. As part of the Campus Landscape
Upgrade, the trees will be removed due to disease or because they have
reached the end of their life cycle. Removal of these redbud and
crabapple trees will make way for the eighty new flowering redbuds and
crabapples to be planted as part of maintaining the beautiful campus of
SIUE.
IN MEMORY
Campus flags
flew at half-staff on Saturday, July 1, 2006, to honor Cpl.
Ryan J. Buckley, 21, United States Army, of Nokomis, IL, dead in the
war
in Iraq on June 23, 2006.
Campus flags flew at half-staff on Monday, July 3, 2006, in memory of
Sgt. Sirlou C. Cuaresma, 25, United States Army, of Chicago, IL, who
died
in Iraq on June 21, 2006.
TRASH OR RECYCLING?
At times, FM
gets calls from indignant people who have seen Building
Service Workers empty a recycling container in the trash.
While the
policy of Facilities Management is to encourage recycling at every
turn,
sometimes people do not take the time to make sure they are throwing
their trash into a TRASH can, not a recycling container. When
trash
has been thrown into a recycling container, the contents are considered
contaminated and become trash. For the most part, Building
Service
Workers are very aware of the importance of recycling; however, some
situations are simply beyond their control.
CHECK IT OUT…
Many people are unaware that studies have begun to address how the
workplace fits the worker. The science, ergonomics, is geared
toward properly designing work environments to avoid fatigue, injury
and
loss of productivity. The goal is preventing work related
musculoskeletal injuries and illnesses such as: muscle and
joint
pain, numbness, carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, sprains and
strain. Risk factors for these injuries include repetition,
force,
mechanical compression and awkward posture.
So…why is this being reported in the ClipBoard?
Many people are
also unaware that free ergonomic assessments are available right here
on
campus. When contacted, Safety Officer Nanci Villotti will
schedule
an appointment to assess what is working in the environment, and what
could be changed to make the worker more comfortable.
The assessment, which usually takes about an hour, begins with a
discussion of how the person works and any problems they seem to be
having. Then with the use of several tools, including a check
list
and short workbook, the comfort of the worker is assessed.
Special
attention is paid to the chair, keyboard, work surface, light and
vision,
monitor and work environment. Based on the results, the
worker and
supervisor are provided with written recommendations for improving the
workstation.
Nanci also provides information on injury prevention, including
stretching techniques and quality rest breaks. A sixty-day
follow
up may be conducted to ensure that recommendations are implemented and
providing relief.
To schedule an Ergonomic Assessment, phone Nanci at Environmental
Health
& Safety, extension 3584.
REMINDER
WATER TOWER PAINTING
The
exterior of the water tower will receive some much needed maintenance
beginning July 5, 2006. The tower will receive a new overcoat
of
paint and the SIUE logo will be updated. During the work, the
tank
will be drained to prevent condensation which would be detrimental to
the
paint. After the tank is drained, campus will be supplied
from the
backup feed from the City of Edwardsville. Water service to
campus
should not be interrupted; however, should problems arise that
necessitate a boil order; the campus community will be kept
informed. As always, FM appreciates the support.
SO MUCH HELP…
Again
in 2006, the Facilities Management Walk-Throughs are providing
valuable insight into each building’s unique set of problems.
The
Walk-Through of the Vadalabene Center/Student Fitness Center was held
Thursday, June 22, 2006, and proved to be very enlightening; the
Walk-Through of the Science Building will be scheduled next.
Minutes of each Walk-Through are posted on the FM web page at
www.siue.edu/FACILITIES .
VACATION E-MAIL
ADDRESSES
The departmental email accounts below should be used when sending email
to Facilities Management, especially during summer months when
individuals may be on vacation. If an email is for a specific
individual, and it doesn’t matter how soon it is answered,
individual email addresses are fine. However, when the email
has
to do with a situation that needs to be addressed in a timely manner,
the following email addresses should be used:
Hot or cold calls: E-mail (fmworks@siue.edu) or call 3711
Customer Service: E-mail (fmserv@siue.edu) or call 3711
Work Order Control: E-mail (fmworks@siue.edu) or call 3711
ADA PROJECT
Update
July 2,
2006:
The A/E
(Architects & Engineers) is correcting the final documents and
will
be submitting them to CDB in July. FM will then appeal to the
State
to release the funds for this project. Sadly, this project
has been
around for a number of years; in fact, several students FM hoped to
help
through this project have graduated. FM continues to ask CDB
for
help in getting the A/E to respond; finally, this project manager is
putting the job at the forefront.
SIUE SDM ALTON CAMPUS/DENTAL
CLINIC FACILITY EXPANSION
Update
July 2,
2006:
The dental chairs,
X-ray machines, microscopes and other related equipment are
installed. The first patients are scheduled for after the
Fourth of
July holiday; hopefully, there will be no fireworks then! A
few
minor issues remaining with the contractors are being corrected under
warranty.
MASONRY RENOVATION
Update
July 2,
2006:
The contractor is
scheduling delivery of the heavy-duty sealer to the Vadalabene Center
and
will begin application shortly after receipt of the material.
The
brick supplier has made two batches of “cookies,”
or square pieces of
brick, to check for color match. Samples matching the range
of
colors in core buildings were identified and the manufacturer/supplier
will be able to run the brick, though it will be mid-August before it
can
be delivered.
MISCELLANEOUS GIR/MOD PROJECTS
Update
July 2,
2006: The
concrete pad on the south side of the Art & Design Building has
been
finished and the students are already enjoying it. Room 1500
in the
Dental Clinic is being converted from a classroom to a dispensing area,
and work is progressing. A new corridor wall has been erected
and
the new doors are being installed. In the next few weeks, an
outside contractor will be installing a compact filing system and
Facilities will complete the finishes in the room.
Kinesiology has
a new classroom in the Vadalabene Center (a room rehabilitated to
remove
carpet from the walls); improved lighting and a new entrance was
added.
EAST ST. LOUIS HIGHER
EDUCATION CAMPUS (ESLHEC)
Update
July 2,
2006: FM
has asked CDB
to pursue several small projects languishing in the A/E’s
office; it is
hoped these projects will be bid soon so work can be completed by the
fall. The Program Analysis/Schematic Design for the window
replacement project was approved by CDB in the last few weeks, and the
Architect is moving forward with the design. Unfortunately,
the
window industry takes more than four months to manufacture new units,
even after the bidding and shop drawing approval. As a
result, it
will be spring of 2007 before the windows can be replaced.
by Hal Borland
They are more than words, really. They are the sum of the lives of a vast multitude of men and women and wide-eyed children. They are a manifesto to mankind…They are a pledge. A pledge that stems from a document which says: “When in the course of human events…,” and goes on from there. A pledge to those who dreamed that dream before it was set to paper, to those who have lived it since, and died for it…
Those words are a covenant with a great host of plain Americans, Americans who put their share of meaning into them…Listen and you can hear voices echoing through them…you can hear men in assembly summoned, there in Philadelphia, hear the scratch of their quills as they wrote words for the hour and produced a document for the ages… You can hear the slow cadences of a gaunt and weary man at Gettysburg, dedicating not a cemetery, but a nation. You can hear those echoes as you walk along the streets, hear them in the rumble of traffic…in the clack of train wheels, in the drumming throb of the airliner; hear them in the corn fields and in the big woods and in the mine pits and the oil fields. But they aren’t words any longer; they’re a way of life, a pattern of living…
They are a pattern of life as lived by a free people, freedom that has its roots in rights and obligations: the right to go to a church with a cross or a star or a dome or a steeple, or not to go to any church at all; and the obligation to respect others in that same right; the right to harangue on a street corner, to hire a hall and shout your opinions until your tonsils are worn to a frazzle; and the obligation to curb your tongue now and then; the right to go to school, to learn a trade, to enter a profession, to earn an honest living; and the obligation to do an honest day’s work; the right to put your side of the argument in the hands of a jury; and the obligation to abide by the laws that you and your delegates have written in the statute books; the right to choose who shall run our government for us, the right to a secret vote that counts just as much as the next fellow’s in the final tally; and obligation to use that right and guard it and keep it clean; the right to hope, to dream, to pray; the obligation to serve…
They’re plain words, those four, simple words. You could write them on your thumbnail, if you chose, or you could sweep them all across the sky, horizon to horizon. You could grave them on stone; you could carve them on the mountain ranges. You could sing them, to the tune of “Yankee Doodle.” But you needn’t. You needn’t do any of those things. For those words are graven in the hearts of 130,000,000 people; they are familiar to 130,000,000 tongues, every sound and every syllable. But when we speak them, we speak them softly, proudly, gratefully: I am an American.
SERVICE
NUMBERS
Temperature Control, Work Order Control, Maintenance Calls/650-3711
Building Services (Custodial)/650-2067
Customer Service/650-3711
Key Control/650-3200
Utilities & Energy Management/650-3329
Grounds/650-2719
Director/650-2560
Billing Inquiries/650-3161
East St. Louis Higher Education Campus/874-8716
IMPORTANT INDIVIDUAL NUMBERS
Architects/Engineers:
Rick Klein/3575
Mohammad Rouf/3917
Dan Runyon/3349
Don Anderson/2567
Billing:
Alicia Wainright/3161
Operational Managers:
Janice LaRiviere/3804 (Maintenance)
Steve Brandenburg/2069 (Building Services, Grounds)
Ed Matecki/3329 or 2258 (Utilities)
Janice LaRiviere/7252 (SDM/Alton)
Customer Service/Facilities Management /Phone: 618-650-3711
Facilities Management Fax: 618-650-2595
After hours/week-end building problems/3513
As always, for maintenance concerns, temperature problems, or to place a work order, phone extension 3711.