Our administrative office is closed. We will return messages upon our return on Thursday, January 2 at 7:30 AM. We will have limited campus support. If you have an urgent facility concern which poses a threat to human or research safety, please call us at (951) 827-4214 and press 2 to speak with our Central Plant operators. Wishing you a wonderful winter break!
Plumbing Shop
What we do
- Manage all plumbing systems and fixtures on campus, from a dripping faucet to the underground infrastructure.
- Maintain 400 valves, which are direct bury.
- Manage potable, industrial hot and cold water, natural gas, vacuum, sewage, and storm water drainage systems.
- Provide custom installations of special gas piping in labs — inert gas, and volatile gas.
- Maintain all eyewash and safety showers on campus.
- Emergency repairs.
- Maintain effluent decontamination systems, both steam and chemical versions used in high containment labs.
- Maintain 18 water treatment plants for deionized water.
- Maintain pumps for storm water, sewage lift stations, and domestic water.
About our team
- We worked on approximately 60 projects in FY 22-23.
- We saved over $40,000 performing a large, in-house repair to an underground fire suppression water line leak in June 2023. The trench was over 10 feet deep and involved replacing two, large risers.
- Our team received approximately 1,700 work orders in FS 22-23.
