Work expected to be complete this evening: Residence Halls and some NTID buildings remain offline

UPDATE: 8 p.m. Nov. 5: Power back online

RIT Facilities Management Services (FMS) personnel and outside contractors continue to work on underground cable lines. Power will remain out for the following buildings until approximately 7 p.m. tonight: 

Ellingson Hall
Peterson Hall
Building 50C including Margaret’s House
Rosica Hall
Shumway Dining/SDC
LBJ Hall
Baker Hall
Colby Hall
Kate Gleason Hall
Fish Hall
Nathaniel Rochester Hall 
Sol Heumann Hall
Gibson Hall

Power to the Perkins Green apartments will not be disrupted as a part of the outage listed above.

We understand the disruption this has caused for students, faculty, and staff. We appreciate your patience as FMS personnel and outside contractors continue repair work. We have identified the cause as a faulty splice in a medium voltage distribution feeder cable. 

During this phase of the work to restore permanent power, the generators will be offline, and no power will be available to those buildings. Once the work is completed, we anticipate full power being restored. The generators will remain available for reconnection in case there are unexpected disruptions. Please continue to use only essential electrical items (e.g., lights, computer) until full power is restored. For information on a particular building’s power status, visit maps.rit.edu and click “power status” in the drop-down menu.

All unaffected academic buildings and most dining hall facilities are open during regular operating hours with Wi-Fi available. Hours of operation are listed on the Dining website. Students are encouraged to use other spaces during the planned power outages later today. 

Please only reach out to RIT Public Safety in case of emergency. We will provide periodic updates as available.

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