Estates and Facilities Management service disruptions

Updates on current disruptions affecting Estates and Facilities Management (EFM) services in University buildings, upcoming works which will affect EFM services and recently resolved issues.

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Current Maintenance Issues

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the service disruptions described below and are working hard to resolve these as soon as possible.

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16/06/2025The DiamondLift 2 is currently out of service. This repair requires specialist works and the ordering of specific parts, and is therefore anticipated to take up to 7 days to complete. Apologies for any inconveniences this may cause.
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18/06/2025Sir Henry StephensonThe lift has been reported as out of service. The engineers are currently on site to resolve this as quickly as possible. Apologies for any inconveniences this may cause.

Upcoming Scheduled Maintenance

Start dateAnticipated end dateBuilding/area affectedDetails
30/06/202501/07/2025

UoS St George's Campus (Broad Lane)
UoS Heartspace
UoS North Campus Kroto Research Institute
UoS North Campus
UoS North Campus
UoS St Georges Church
UoS ICOSS

UoS Jessop Building
UoS Bioincubator
UoS Jessop West
UoS Diamond Building
UoS Hicks Building
UoS Computing Services
UoS Information Commons
UoS Old Students Union Ext/Graves
UoS Old Students Union
UoS Brunswick Street
UoS University House
UoS Division of Education
UoS Octagon Centre
UoS Firth Court
UoS 4A Shearwood Road
UoS Goodwin Sports Centre Cofield
Uos Goodwin Sports Centre Gym/Admin
UoS Goodwin Sports Centre Admin/Showers
UoS Elmfield Building  

Veolia and our contractors are preparing resources to carry out emergency corrective maintenance works to our underground pipeline within your area. It is imperative that these works are carried out, in order to maintain optimum operation of the District Energy Network.

Works will commence on Monday 30th of June 2025 with an overnight shutdown starting from 1800. We anticipate a downtime of approximately 15 hours.

Recently Resolved Issues

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18/06/202520/06/2025The OctagonThe lift is now back in use.
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10/06/2025Western BankYorkshire Water (YW) are performing an emergency burst inspection in the Fulwood Road area,  please note there may follow a loss of water pressure effecting various buildings. YW advise issue resolved. 
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21/05/202521/05/2025Arts Tower

The scheduled works in the Arts Tower are now resolved. Access is now resumed as normal.