UCR’s Central Plant will conduct a routine inspection and maintenance of the steam utility distribution system.
When: Friday, June 5 at 12:00 PM through Friday, June 12 at 5:00 PM.
Impact: Heat and steam will be turned off throughout campus facilities. This shutdown will affect building heating, hot water, sterilization, autoclave operations, and other laboratory processes. Affected buildings are listed below.
Purpose: This inspection ensures the continued, reliable delivery of pressurized steam and hot water for campus buildings. Such delivery is essential for sterilization, laboratory processes, and climate control. Warmer weather and a smaller campus population during summer create minimal demand for steam, thus reducing the impact on the campus community.
Safety: Operators will turn off campus boilers to cool for two days and will begin work on June 7. The Central Plant and steam tunnels will require intensive labor for this shutdown. Skilled trade staff will work in shifts to shut down the boilers, drain the system, make necessary repairs, reignite the boilers, reintroduce high-pressure steam, check the entire system for leaks, and bring buildings back online. They plan to relight the boilers on the morning of June 12 to fully restore steam by 5:00 PM.
Affected Buildings:
• Anderson Hall
• Athletics & Dance
• Batchelor Hall
• Biological Sciences
• Bourns Hall
• Boyce East Vivarium, trailer
• Boyce Hall
• Boyden Lab
• Chapman Hall
• CHASS Interdisciplinary North and South
• Chemical Sciences
• Entomology Building
• Fawcett Laboratory
• Fine Arts
• FS Annex B
• Genomics Building
• Geology Building
• Greenhouses
• Growth Chamber Facility
• Highlander Union Building, HUB – Limited availability
• Hinderaker Hall
• Humanities & Social Sciences
• Insectary & Quarantine Facility
• Life Sciences & Lecture Hall 1500
• Materials Science & Engineering
• Multidisciplinary Research Building, MRB – Limited availability
• Olmsted Hall
• Orbach Science Library
• Physics Building
• Pierce Hall & Pierce Annex Wing
• Psychology Building
• Rivera Library
• School of Medicine - Education Building
• School of Medicine Health Science Research Building
• Science Laboratories 1
• Soil Sterilization Station
• Spieth Hall
• Sproul Hall
• Student Academic Services, SASS
• Watkins Hall
• Webber Hall
• Winston Chung Hall
The following are not impacted:
• Housing facilities will not be affected.
• HUB Dining will have a backup boiler for hot water.
• Multidisciplinary Research Building, MRB, will have boilers to provide steam from June 8 to 10, during the hours of 7:00 AM to 2:30 PM.
Thank you for your patience as we uphold our commitment to maintaining a safe and sustainable campus environment. If you have any questions regarding this inspection process, please call us at (951) 827-4214 or email us at facilities@ucr.edu.