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Annual Heating Transition
Facilities & Services (F&S) is beginning its annual transition from cooling to heating. This transition can take up to several weeks to ensure all buildings are properly converted and regulated. We are asking you for help and understanding during this transition.
Turning on the heat at the University of Illinois is not as simple as flipping a switch. F&S employees work three shifts, 24 hours a day, to get the systems running. Steam heating, especially in our older facilities, must be brought up slowly, and once running, kept constant – cooling down and heating up numerous times can cause system failures. When the system is up and running, there will be adjustments necessary to properly regulate the buildings.
If you encounter uncomfortable situations during this time, please remember many of our research projects involve animals or high tech equipment - both of which are more sensitive to temperature fluctuations and extremes than people. Therefore, we must respond to them first. Nevertheless, we will make every reasonable effort to attend to human comfort in a timely fashion as well.
Here’s how you can help the transition:
If you must open windows in a room to regulate temperature, please remember to close them when you leave the area.
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