The Clark Science Center is the home of the sciences at Smith. Their website has a bounty of information useful for faculty and students working and studying at Smith. This includes–but is not limited to–floorplans, core facilities information, and contact information for relevant Science Center faculty/staff.
The Science Center website has information like Emergency Back-Up Power (also provided below).
Equipment Alarms
Equipment Alarms
-80’s and Cold Rooms are wired into the campus building alarm system. Campus Safety is automatically notified if an alarm condition exists. In case of alarm, the following procedure is executed:
- Campus Police notify the designated contact for the equipment with the contact information provided by the Science Center administration. If they can’t reach anyone, they will also contact Heather McQueen, Margaret Rakas, or Tom Richardson via the main administrative line x3800.
- Science Center administration investigates on-premises and follows whatever emergency procedure is indicated on the equipment. This typically means contacting faculty or lab employees listed. If there is an obvious infrastructure issue (e.g. lack of power, leaking pipe), Facilities Management is called to repair. If it is an equipment issue, a service contractor is called.
If outside work hours, Campus Police will investigate on location and follow the emergency contact information provided via Google drive and shared with campuspolice-disp@smith.edu
Be sure to list emergency procedures directly on any critical equipment, including refrigeration!
You need to provide information that will make sense to Campus Police officers investigating an alarm in the middle of a night on a weekend.
This should be names and contact information for whom to contact in case of failure, as well as the name of the service contractor.
Emergency Back-Up Power
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
| Room # | Equipment |
| Vivarium | Vivarium |
| Vivarium | Cold Room |
| Roof | Exhaust fans E52 & E53 serving hoods in SB12 & SB13 (hazardous materials room) |
| SR-024 | Incubators |
| SR-025 | Fish Room |
| SR – 127 | Seimens Security Panel |
| SR-222 | Chest Freezer |
| SR-222 | Fridge/Freezer |
| SR-324 | Cold Room |
| SR-346 | Neg 80 Chest Freezer |
| SR-346 | Chest Freezer |
| SR-346 | Neg 80 Freezer |
| SR-401 Suite | Fridge/Freezer |
| SR-401 Suite | Fridge/Freezer |
| SR-401 Suite | Neg 30 Freezer |
| SR-403 | Warm Room |
| SR-406 | Neg 40 Freezer |
| SR-406 | Fridge/Freezer |
| SR-406 | Shaker Incubator |
| SR-406 | Up Right Freezer |
| SR-406 | Fridge/Freezer |
| SR-407 | Cold Room |
| SR-408 | Fridge/Freezer |
| SR-409 | Freezer |
| SR-427 | Freezer |
| B-202 | Neg 80 Freezer |
| B-202B | Upright Freezer (Neg 20) |
| B-202B | Fridge/Freezer |
| B-218 | Upright Freezer (Neg 20) |
| B-218 | Deli Fridge |
| B-218 | Incubator |
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