Campus Closures, Shutdowns and Detours Menu

Begin:  Saturday, March 22, 2025, at 7:00 am

End:      Sunday, March 30, 2025, at 9:00 am

Building(s) or Area(s) Affected:  UO Portland Campus Center Building

Scope:  A planned building power outage and building closure has been scheduled over spring break.  The power company will be relocating a transformer plus new electrical switchgear will be installed (electrical upgrade for building).

Services Impacted:  All building power will be offline during this time and the building will be closed.

Special Instructions:  Remove all food items from refrigerators and freezers.

Special Instructions:  Please shut down and unplug all multi-function copier devices as well as any printers during scheduled power outages. The software on these machines can be negatively affected due to the power surge when the power is turned back on.  A power surge can corrupt the clone files in the machines and change preconfigured settings.  For questions, please contact Kati Kronholm at 541-346-5370 or katik@uoregon.edu.  For non-copier questions, please reach out to the contact person listed below.

Work Performed By:  Howard S Wright Electrical Sub EC & Pacific Power Company

Contact:  Melissa Moshofsky, CPFM Owner’s Representative, 541-346-3712

Current construction and impacts information can be found on the UO Maps site.

Begin: Saturday, February 20^th, 2021 at 8:00 am

End: Saturday, February 20^th, 2021 at 6:00 pm

Building(s) or Area(s) Impacted: Lewis Integrative Science Building (LISB)

Scope: Electrical outage required to perform maintenance on the normal power 480/277 volt transformer.

Services Impacted: The Normal 480/277 Volt transformer will be de-energized. The Stand-by system 480/277 volt transformer and the Normal 208/120 volt transformer will remain energized for the duration.

Extra Notes: This outage was coordinated with prior feedback from Facilities Liaisons on 1/4/21, and the date agreed upon was 2/20/21. We will send out reminders when we are 10 days out and also a few days prior to the event.

Special Instructions: Please shut down all multi-function copier devices as well as any printers during scheduled power outages. The software on these machines can be negatively affected due to the power surge when the power is turned back on. A power surge can corrupt the clone files in the machines and change preconfigured settings.

Work Performed By: CPFM Utilities & Energy and a Contractor

Contact: Rick Tabor, CPFM Interim Co-Dir Utilities and Facilities Management, 541-346-7511

On Saturday, August 31, CPFM Utilities and Energy will be coordinating a contractor to work on the transformer that services HEDCO.  This will require a building-wide electrical shutdown.  The electrical shutdown will begin at 9:00 am and will last approximately 6 hours.  The crew will remain on-site one hour after energizing.

 

Scope of work. Crews will de-energize the transformer and drain out the oil so the oil sampling port can be replaced.  After that, the oil will be added and then monitored for leaks to let the air bubbles rise before crews can energize. Air bubbles in the oil can cause electrical arcing inside. Crews test the oil, so they can see how the transformer is doing and predict what maintenance can/should be done to extend the life of the transformer.

 

This work was pre-coordinated with Facilities Liaison Eric Owens.

 

For questions or concerns, please contact:

 

Rick Tabor

University of Oregon

Utilities and Energy Electrical Superintendent

Campus Planning and Facilities Management

541-346-7511

Building Occupants,

An upcoming project that will occur this summer is the replacement of the existing transformer located on the west side of Friendly Hall.  The new transformer will be located in the same position as the existing transformer.  The transformer is in a prominent position since the west side of the building is the main entrance and looks out upon the open quad space.  We met with UO representatives from campus planning and landscaping to try and mitigate the visual impact since the new transformer is 20” taller than the existing one.   The height of the new transformer is slightly lower than the existing exterior window sill so it will not impact the view of the open space beyond.

Unfortunately there are no alternatives to relocating the transformer to another location or for a smaller unit.  Our tests show the transformer is degrading rapidly and needs to be replaced this summer.  Since the new transformer is taller than the existing one being replaced, our intent is to mitigate any visual impact with landscaping around the transformer while maintaining safe working access around the transformer for CPS staff.

We will update this notice once a schedule has been put into place.

For questions or concerns about how this may impact your area, contact Dale Stadler, Campus Planning and Facilities Management (CPFM) Design and Construction at 346-8251.