Upcoming planned steam outages for Morgantown campus

To accommodate enhancements, repairs and testing for West Virginia University’s steam infrastructure, the Facilities Management team is working with WVU’s steam provider on three planned steam outages.

The outages will occur Saturday, May 21, through Saturday, May 28 (Evansdale), and Friday, June 3, through Saturday, June 11 (Downtown). Both outages will begin at 6 a.m. An additional outage will affect the Evansdale campus from Friday, June 3, through Tuesday, June 7.

Evansdale Steam Outage (May 21-28 and June 3-7)

All steam across the Evansdale campus will be shut down during the outage. Heating, domestic hot water and lab steam will be affected at the following campus buildings:

Agricultural Sciences Allen Hall Creative Arts Center Engineering Research Building Engineering Sciences Evansdale Greenhouse

Evansdale Library Mineral Resources Building National Research Center for Coal and Energy Percival Hall Student Recreation Center

Heating and domestic hot water also will be affected in the following residence halls:

Bennett Tower Braxton Tower

Brooke Tower Lyon Tower

Downtown Steam Outage (June 3-11)

All steam across the Downtown campus will be shut down during the outage. Heating, domestic hot water and lab steam will be affected at the following campus buildings:

Armstrong Hall Brooks Hall Chemistry Research Laboratory Chitwood Hall Clark Hall Colson Hall Downtown Campus Library Eiesland Hall Elizabeth Moore Hall

John Chambers College of Business and Economics Life Sciences Building Martin Hall Mountainlair Oglebay Hall Purinton House Stewart Hall White Hall Woodburn Hall

Heating and domestic hot water also will be affected in the following residence halls:

Boreman Hall (North and South) Dadisman Hall

Stalnaker Hall

Air conditioning is not expected to be impacted during the outages. However, the Facilities team will continually monitor temperatures in campus buildings and residence halls and make any necessary adjustments.

Researchers should consider delaying any new research projects that could be affected by these outages if at all possible.

We appreciate your patience as we work to complete this critical work at a time that will have the least effect on our students, faculty and staff.

If you have questions or concerns about the outage, contact your building supervisor to discuss your specific needs. You also may contact Facilities and Services at FacilitiesandServices@mail.wvu.edu with any general questions.