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Steam Outage Schedule

West Virginia University’s annual steam outage will occur solely on the Evansdale Campus this year.  Work will begin May 23, 2016 starting at 7 a.m. Steam will be returned to the campus on May 27, 2016 by 7 a.m. This outage will affect domestic hot water, heating water and may impact HVAC systems. Backup hot water systems will be turned on in facilities that have this capability.

Facilities management maintains approximately 4.5 miles of underground steam line infrastructure and approximately 1,200 major steam line isolation valves, expansion joints and components feeding our campus buildings.

The steam outage is critical to ensure we maintain our campus reliability and allows us to perform scheduled preventive and corrective maintenance that cannot be completed during normal operation. Maintenance is performed on both the steam and domestic hot water heating systems, pressure reducing stations, valves, distilling units and the condensate systems in these facilities.

Completion of these maintenance items significantly reduces the need for costly equipment replacements and increases the life and reliability of the equipment of our campus systems.

We will be monitoring facilities affected by this outage and making adjustments to minimize the impact to the facilities. The following buildings will be affected:

May 23rd-May 27th

Mineral Resources
Engineering Sciences
Engineering Research
NRCCE
Evansdale Green House
Ag Science Annex
Ag Sciences
South Ag Sciences
New Ag Sciences
New AERB
Allen Hall (HVAC cooling will be affected)
Percival Hall (HVAC cooling will be affected)
Student Rec Center (will not affect domestic hot water)
Creative Arts Center (will not affect domestic hot water)
Evansdale Residential Complex