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Wired network installation across Engineering Building A workspace – Friday 24 March – Friday 12 May

A seven-week programme of work was recently announced, which will see an additional 332 wired network ports installed across Engineering Building A workspace between Friday 24 March and Friday 12 May. This will improve connectivity for research groups, where the complexity of their work requires an enhancement to the existing data provision.

Detailed below is the schedule of activity. This will progress through the Third to Sixth Floors in stages to minimise disruption. Due to the scale of the installation process, access to workspace areas, including open plan desks and offices and in some cases meeting rooms and stair/lift access, will need to be restricted whilst this work is carried out. It is therefore vitally important that building users familiarise themselves with the programme (provided below) so as to understand the potential impact to planned activity. No access will be granted to these areas whilst work is underway, so any personal items or equipment needed for work purposes during this time should be removed ahead of time.

Disturbance will be limited to the restricted areas, with little to no noise or disruption experienced by colleagues in the adjoining workspace areas, or in floors immediately above or below.

Alternative workspace

When access to your desk or office space is restricted, you may wish to consider temporarily relocating to alternative workspace in Engineering Building A or working from home where this is available to you. Alternative workspace includes:

Sixth Floor, Core One hot desks – 18 desks available every day;
Fourth Floor quiet working room (Room 4A.059A, Core Four) – 22-person capacity;
Fifth Floor quiet working room(Room 5A.050, Core Four) – 22-person capacity;
Meeting rooms available to book via Resource Booker.

Existing Room bookings which may have already been scheduled in areas which are now restricted will have been cancelled and notification issued to organisers. We apologise for this inconvenience. The Service Delivery Team will be happy to suggest suitable alternative space to hold your meeting or event – please contact them via TEAM@manchester.ac.uk

Click on the workspace areas in the table below to see a map of the impacted areas and facilities, or view the floor-by-floor schedule.

Date	Workspace area	Restricted areas
Fri 24 March – Mon 27 March	Floor Four, Core Three East and West	Offices: 21, 26, 27, 28 Desks: 259 – 300 (inclusive) Meeting rooms: 33 and 34 Other areas: Floor Four, Core Three lifts and staircases* *Sat 25 March only
Monday 27 March – Friday 31 March	Floor Six, Core Four East	Offices: N/A Desks: 233 – 260 (inclusive) Meeting rooms: 73 - 75 Other areas: Lab stores (6A.010) Floor Six, Core Four lifts, staircase and goods lift* *Tuesday 28 March only
Saturday 1 April – Tuesday 11 April	Floor Six, Core Four East and South	Offices: N/A Desks: 205 – 232 and 261 – 284 inclusive Meeting rooms: 68 – 71 Other areas: Kitchenette and goods lift* *Saturday 1 – Monday 3 April only
Tuesday 11 April – Friday 14 April	Floor Five, Core One West	Offices: 37 – 41 Desks: 14 – 50 (inclusive) Meeting rooms: 40
Wednesday 12 April – Monday 17 April	Floor Five, Core One East	Offices: 61 – 64 Offices: 40 - 41* Desks: 101 – 144 (inclusive) Meeting rooms: 56 *Thursday 13 April only
Tuesday 18 April – Thursday 20 April	Floor Four, Core Four (South and West)	Offices: 26 Desks: 333 – 350 Meeting rooms: 29 - 32 Other areas: Doctoral Academy Technical hub Quiet working room
Friday 21 April – Monday 24 April	Floor Five, Core Three (East and West)	Offices: 54 – 57 Desks: 283 – 324 Meeting rooms: 43, 44, 52 and 53 Large social space Lifts and staircase* *Friday 21 April only
Tuesday 25 April – Sunday 30 April	Floor Four, Core One (East and West) and Core Two (East)	Offices: 32 – 36 Offices: 15* Desks: 101 – 132 Meeting rooms: 22, 37 Meet and Teach Room: 4A.011* Other areas: Robotics and Autonomous Systems Lab Lift and staircase* *Tuesday 25 April only
Wednesday 26 April – Tuesday 2 May	Floor Five, Core Four East	Offices: 52, 53 Desks: 389 – 430 Meeting rooms: 50, 51 Other areas: Lifts, staircases and goods lift* *Thursday 27 April only
Wednesday 3 May – Friday 5 May	Floor Four, Core Three West and Core Four West	Offices 19 – 24 Desks 217 – 258, 301 – 322 Meeting rooms 25 – 28
Saturday 6 May – Wednesday 10 May	Floor Three, Core One (North, East and West) and Core Two West	Offices: 1 – 6 Desks: 1 – 114 Meet and Teach Rooms: 3A.018 and 3A.019 Other areas: Kitchenette

We apologise for any inconvenience caused, and if you have any questions in the meantime please get in touch via matthew.foulkes@manchester.ac.uk