The maintenance shop is replacing the aging transformers in MacNider Hall, and we have already had a short scheduled electrical outage to start the project. A longer outage is coming up soon. The normal power for MacNider Hall will be off from 7 p.m. on Friday, June 8 until 6 a.m. on Monday, June 11. The emergency power will be on during the outage. However, none of the cold rooms have emergency power.

Anything in cold rooms that must be kept cold should be transferred to refrigerators in labs. Make sure that all the essential freezers, refrigerators and cold boxes are plugged into emergency outlets. If you need more emergency outlets, please contact Jaya Ghosh (919-201-4248, jaya_ghosh@med.unc.edu) as soon as possible. Office desktop remote connections will not be operational during the outage period. Finally, during the outage, the building will have very little airflow in the HVAC system.