Facilities Update
We’d like to take this opportunity to update you regarding a number of Facilities related matters:
- Alan Walters Building;
- Ash House refurbishment;
- Staff moves;
- Next phase of the School’s building-branding activities;
- Managed Print Service, and;
- The School’s enhanced Local Contingency Action Plan.
Alan Walters Building
Further to the update in the March edition of the newsletter, we’re pleased to announce that AWB has been handed over to the School.
As you can see from the photographs, whilst the building is not yet fully operational, work is complete, with the exception of some minor snagging activities. Furniture will be delivered in the next circa. 3-4 weeks and audio-visual/IT equipment will be installed during the summer months, with a view to the building being fully operational in September. The catering outlet will be available from 5th September.
Over the previous few weeks a number of Building User Group visits have taken place; these have enabled staff who will reside in the building to familiarise themselves with the building layout and amenities.
A meeting of the School’s Accommodation & Facilities PGC Task and Finish Group will convene shortly to finalise arrangements regarding Professional Service staff moves - likely to be in August - into the building. Additionally, as the beginning of term approaches, a Building User Group will also convene to ensure optimal delivery of services in the building, and to iron out any issues as quickly as possible.
To enable everyone to experience the building before the summer the next School Assembly – Tuesday 28th June, 11AM – will be held in the Lecture Theatre in the AWB. As part of the proceedings, there will be an opportunity for you to check-out the building for yourselves, before lunch is served. We hope you will be able to attend.
Details regarding the building opening ceremony will be announced in a future edition of the Newsletter.
Ash House
Following completion of snagging, patching, and installation of furniture during the first few weeks of May, the refurbishment is complete and the School has taken receipt of the building.
The building refit has afforded vibrant office space, complete with cellular and open plan offices, and meeting spaces.
Details regarding allocation of office space have been finalised and moves to the ground floor by CRÈME and City-REDI are taking place on 20th June and 1st July respectively, to be followed on 6th and 7th July by the Marketing Department to floors one and two. Colleagues in the Marketing Department had the opportunity to attend a tour of the building and it’s amenities on 8th and 9th June.
University House
Discussions will now take place, involving key stakeholders, regarding utilisation of vacated office space in University House. We’ll provide further progress updates in future newsletters.
Branding - signage
As part of phase-one of the School’s branding roll-out, a number of eye-catching vinyl’s and way-finders were installed in prominent positions in University House.
The next phase, to consolidate the School’s brand and identity across its growing ‘footprint’, will see the installation of similar vinyls and war-fairing signage in other areas of the Business School’s building portfolio - Ash House, Elm House ground floor, and relevant areas of floor 2 in Muirhead Tower. Emma Ward, the School’s Head of External Relations, is currently working with colleagues in Creative Media regarding this endeavour. Initial concepts are being produced. We’ll keep you up to date with developments.
Managed Print Service – Roll-out
The College of Social Sciences will be the first to roll-out the new multifunctional printing devices that offer scanning, colour printing and copying facilities.
It is anticipated that AWB, University House and Ash House will be the first areas to receive the new Konica Minolta machines week commencing 18th July. J G Smith will follow, week commencing 5th September.
A number of devices will be available in University House – in LG06, G30, G31, G41, 114, 162, 257 and 208. A smaller desk-top style device will also be located in 113 and behind Reception. AWB will have a machine in the Careers Office, MBA office and MSc Office. Details regarding JS Smith Building will follow shortly.
More official communications will be sent out from the Managed Print Service Team in due course; including information about not replacing individual desk top printers as they break, how to obtain replacement ID cards with ‘chips’ to ensure retrieval of work, and training on the use of machines. We’ll also update you in future Newsletters.
BBS Local Contingency Action Plan (LCAP)
The Business School is fortunately low-risk when it comes to potential hazards, having no chemical, radioactive or biological activities in any of its buildings. However, this hasn’t stopped us planning for every exposure to ensure colleagues well-being, from infectious diseases, occupation of buildings and estates/IT critical incidents, through to bomb threats and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incidents (CBRN)!
Devised in parallel with the University’s Strategic Emergency Response Plan (SERP) and Strategic Emergency Response Team (SERT), the School has recently approved a Local Contingency Action Plan (LCAP) and Local Contingency Planning Team (LCPT) to address a multiplicity of emergency scenarios.
The School’s LCPT comprises Andy Lymer, Ian Hamley, Nisar Yasin and Laura Harris, with Louise Rudge as Secretary. The LCPT will convene to formulate a response in the unlikely event of an emergency, working in accordance with SERP/SERT and taking advice from specialist colleagues and external agencies.
If you wish to know any further details regarding the plan, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Ian, Louise and Donna