Director's Office

Emergency Back-up Power

Faculty members or departments concerned about the effects of short term power outages or small variations in electrical service (e.g. voltage surges, spikes, or outages of a few seconds) are recommended to acquire an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for their equipment.

The Clark Science Center has emergency generators that will start up within approximately 10 seconds of a power outage. The purpose of an emergency generator is to supply power during longer outages for life-safety infrastructure (e.g. emergency lighting, fire alarms) and select equipment used for long-term storage of critical materials. The following equipment is powered by emergency generators (information supplied by Facilities Management).

Note: elevators are not connected to back-up generator.

Ford Hall

The following rooms in Ford Hall have red outlets indicating backup power supply:

FH002 (2)

FH004

FH005

FH006

FH31A (BSL3), 4 outlets: freezer, incubator, fridge, freezer

FH101

FH103 (2)

FH104 (2)

FH106 (2)

FH124

FH126A cold room

FH130 (7)

FH131 (14)

FH135 (10)

FH136 warm room

FH203 (14)

FH204 (5)

FH206 (2)

FH210

FH220 cold room

FH222

FH230 (3)

FH230A

FH232

FH222A (3)

FH220B

FH236 cold room

FH238 (5)

FH302

FH303

FH304

FH305

FH306

FH330 (2)

FH331 (2)

FH342

FH343

FH335 (2)

Sabin-Reed & Burton

McConnell

McConnell basement - Alarm for low oxygen sensor (Nat Fortune lab)

General Equipment

Emergency lighting in Ford, Burton, SR, McC, and Bass

Fire alarm panels

Sprinkler compressor (fire suppression)

Critical HVAC equipment

Emergency generator exhaust fans & fuel supply
Automatic temperature control air compressor

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