We are starting a high voltage electricity cable replacement programme at the Canterbury campus which is expected to take six months to complete. To enable this to happen, there will be a site electrical shutdown this Saturday 20 June from 07.00 to 13.00.

This will isolate all electrical supplies to all buildings apart from the following: Keynes, Keynes 2, Turing, Careers, Tanglewood, Oaks terminal room, Oaks Nursery, Olive Cottages, Woodlands, Rothford, Beverley Farm, Belmont, Highlands and Hilltops.

During the shutdown, there will be temporary electricity generation at Rutherford, Eliot, Darwin, Ingram, Stacey Telephone Exchange, Campus Watch, The Locke Building, CSR Radio and the Pumping Station.

Please can staff and residents ensure that all non-essential electrical equipment – for example, IT equipment and televisions – is switched off and unplugged before shutdown begins at 07.00. Any network faults resulting from the outage may not be fixed until Monday 22 June. University IT Services used from off campus should not be affected, but are ‘at risk’ of interruption.

Apologies in advance for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any queries, please contact the Estates Helpdesk on Ext 3209.

Alex Watson
Senior Building Services Engineer