FACILITIES USERS NETWORK (FUN)
AGENDA
December 14, 2006
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
1239 Kipke, Rooms 2043/2029
Chairpersons: Jack Novodoff, Chemistry; Rick Richter, Psychology
| 8:45 | Coffee and Networking |
| 9:00 | Welcome, Introductions and Announcements
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| 9:10 | FM Graduation: (Rich Robben) Graduation of FUN members in the Introduction to Facilities Management series. |
| 9:15 | Space Utilization Initiative: (Phil Hanlon - Associate Provost) The Space Initiative is a campus-wide effort to better understand, and make better use of, space and facilities to improve space utilization. Based on input from a series of focus groups, recommendations were delivered to the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and the Vice President for Research. The concepts presented were endorsed and Phil Hanlon was charged with moving forward on all recommendations. Phil Hanlon is attending the FUN meeting to present an overview of the project, to answer questions and to listen to your suggestions. |
| 10:00 | Energy Conservation Study:: (Kathleen Thomson - ISR) The Institute for Social Research is working on a survey of 4 UM buildings to learn what staff, faculty and students think, know and do regarding energy usage. This presentation will give an update on the overall plan and its progress to date, including a few tidbits of information already learned from this study. |
| 10:30 | B R E A K |
| 10:45 | RecycleMania!: (Tracy L. Artley - Recycling Coordinator) RecycleMania is a 10-week collegiate recycling competition that UM will be competing in this year! The presentation will include an overview of RecycleMania, specifics on what we need to do to win and an introduction of the building-by-building competition Waste Management Services will be holding at the same time. |
| 11:00 | FUN Governance Bylaws: (Kathleen Thomson - ISR) The FUN group governance committee has prepared a draft by-laws document. A copy of this document is attached to this email. Please look this over to see if it matches your understanding of our group. We will discuss the document, answer questions and finalize/adopt the document as possible. |
| 11:15 | OSEH Advisory - Gas Burner Alternatives: (Mike Hanna - OSEH) This is to notify the research community that OSEH actively discourages the installation of natural gas plumbing and use of conventional Bunsen Burners in Class II Biological Safety Cabinets (BSC). These units are used for microbiological containment and/or aseptic work with tissue cultures. The continuous operation of traditional gas burners in BSC’s creates thermodynamic instabilities that interfere with the function of the unit, reducing its ability to provide the sterile field necessary to protect the vulnerable research materials within. On our campus, fires within BSC’s have been associated with such use of gas burners. Flame sterilization of metal inoculation loops and other traditionally reusable materials is no longer necessary. |
| 11:30 | Meeting adjourned |
| Notes: | Do you have a topic that you would like the FUN group to discuss at a future meeting or would you like to become a member of the FUN Steering committee? You can email your suggestions or name to either John Keedy
(John Keedy (get address))
or Debrah Webb (Debrah Webb (get address)).
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