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Planned Downtown Campus electrical outage for early Sunday morning

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WVU’s Facilities Management team is planning an approximate four-hour electrical outage for the Downtown campus for Sunday (Aug. 16) from 4-8 a.m. to clean main electrical gear following recent flooding. 

This scheduled maintenance will result in an outage of electrical service that will affect multiple buildings on the Downtown campus. The Evansdale and Health Sciences campuses will not be affected.

Backup power will be provided during the outage to research labs in the following buildings:

  • Brooks Hall

  • Chemistry Research Laboratory

  • Oglebay Hall

Power to all other areas will be turned off during the outage, including the following buildings:

  • Arnold Hall and Apartments

  • Boreman Hall (North and South)

  • Colson Hall 

  • Dadisman Hall

  • Dadisman Annex

  • Hodges Hall

  • John Chambers College of Business and Economics

  • Mountainlair and Parking Garage

  • Stalnaker Hall

  • Stewart Hall

  • Student Services Center

  • WVU Bookstore

We appreciate your patience as we perform this critical maintenance. If you have questions or concerns, contact your building supervisor. You also may contact Facilities and Services at FacilitiesandServices@mail.wvu.edu.