The Focus - July 2020
IPF Communications
July 20, 2020
In this issue...
- Board of Trustees upcoming agendas
- Road closure information
- Munn Ice Arena expansion
- Business College Complex - Eppley Center - Student support and capital renewal
- STEM facility blooms from dormant power plant roots
- R.I.C.E. - helping reduce MSU's carbon footprint
- Tim Potter: a life behind (handle)bars
- 2020 Water Quality Report now available
- Keeping Spartans safe - IPF cleaning protocols
- MSU Bikes now handling all used/surplus bike sales
- Surplus and Recycling Town Hall: Preventing Contamination
- IPF photo roundup
Board of Trustees upcoming agendas (tentative, subject to change)
September agenda
- Nothing scheduled at this time for Step 2 (Authorization to Proceed).
October agenda
- Veterinary Medical Center - replace HVAC-1 and HVAC-21 (under $5M project)
Road closure information
Beaumont Road (between Bennett and Mt. Hope Roads), June 29 - Sept. 8
Forest Road (between Farm Lane and Beaumont Road), June 29 - Sept. 8
Service Road (between Linen Services and Parking Lot 83), June 1 - Aug. 28
Delta Court (north of Landon Hall), July 6 - Aug. 2
Hagadorn Road (between Service and Wilson Roads), July 13 - July 27
Munn Ice Arena expansion (CP18134) - update
- Project milestones:
- The current scope is being reduced to include the permanent enclosure, code and other life safety items including egress.
- Estimated cost for the revised scope is $12.2 million and will be completed in November 2020.
- The balance of the project will be deferred pending fundraising.
- Impact updates:
- East/west sidewalk is closed at the south side of Munn, with pedestrian detours in place.
- The south entrance to Munn remains closed with emergency egress only.
For comments, questions or concerns, contact project manager, Jason VanZee, at (517) 432-2675 or vanzeeja@msu.edu.
Business College Complex - Eppley Center - Student support and capital renewal (CP18003) - update
- Project milestones:
- Fourth-floor ceiling demolition is nearing completion.
- Air handlers in the mechanical rooms have been removed.
- Impact updates:
- Building will remain unoccupied during construction.
For comments, questions or concerns, contact project manager, Tony Rhodes, at (517) 432-7104 or rhodesa1@msu.edu.
STEM facility blooms from dormant power plant roots
It’s hard not to notice the two huge additions rising adjacent to the old Shaw Lane Power Plant. A myriad of activity is resulting in the erection of a first-of-its-kind for MSU – a STEM teaching and research facility constructed using mass timber.
R.I.C.E. - helping reduce MSU's carbon footprint
The Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engine (R.I.C.E.) technology that is being deployed at the T.B. Simon Power Plant is more responsive, offers additional flexibility, and operates at higher efficiency than the traditional generation units currently in use.
Tim Potter: a life behind (handle)bars
“I decided to start a bike shop in my parent’s basement with the help of my best friend,” Potter said. “First, we purchased 100 bikes from an MSU Salvage (now MSU Surplus Store) auction for five dollars each; then we bought out the tools and parts from a local bike shop that was going out of business.”
MSU Water Quality Report now available
The latest Water Quality Report for Michigan State University has been published, covering 2019 sample results. MSU closely monitors the source water and the treated drinking water to ensure a high level of quality and safety is maintained.
After being drawn from groundwater wells on south campus and then treated, the water is pumped to most buildings on campus through a network of about 74 miles of water mains.
The report also details the water treatment facility and water tower that is under construction and how they will improve water quality and infrastructure on campus. Once the facility goes online, noticeable water quality improvements may take time to work through the campus-wide system and in each building's system.
Keeping Spartans Safe: IPF cleaning protocols
IPF is committed to providing a safe, healthy environment for research and education.
Detailed cleaning levels are available at our custodial service level page. Additionally, custodial staff follow CDC guidelines for cleaning a non-health care facility in response to a symptomatic individual.
MSU Bikes now handling all used/surplus bike sales
Those of you who walk or bike along the north river path of campus may have noticed that MSU Bikes has a LOT of “new” bikes outside the Center, some tagged with yellow or red tags and others with the white impound notices.
What’s going on over there you wonder? Well, MSU Bikes is now the home for all things bikes, which means they’ll now be processing (sorting out the good, the bad and the useful) all of the abandoned and impounded bikes that MSU Parking has released after the required waiting period. So, this means that the Surplus Store will no longer be selling the abandoned bikes as they have for decades.
This is a real benefit to the university community and others as the MSU Bikes’ knowledgeable crew is on hand to answer questions, assess problems and provide the necessary repairs making it a convenient and time-saving visit.
Unfortunately, there is only room for displaying so many bikes at a time outside the Center in an orderly, secure way, so the selection isn’t as broad as it used to be at the Surplus Store, but the benefits to the customers and university far outweigh the down-side to this change. As soon as the Center is able to add more staff, they plan on processing many more of these bikes to give more options to the community that has found the supply of affordable used bikes drying up.
Surplus and Recycling Virtual Town Hall: Preventing Contamination
Join the MSU Surplus Store and Recycling Center staff at 7 p.m on Thursday, July 23 for a virtual conversation about contamination -
what it is, why it's bad for recycling streams and how to prevent it. An open Q & A session will follow, so bring your questions on recycling, our operations or any general "wonderings." We'll see you on Zoom!
Registration required.
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