: SUNY Brockport

SUNY Brockport is upgrading its electrical infrastructure in an effort to reduce its carbon emissions in the years to come. Learn how the project will impact campus.

A two-year project to overhaul SUNY Brockport’s electrical infrastructure is entering its final phase. Between June 2 and September 17, 2025, each building on the north side of campus (north of the rail road tracks) will be disconnected and then reconnected to the new electrical grid.

All buildings that are still operating on the old electrical grid will be without power between 1 am and 5 am on the first day of each building’s transition to the new grid. Buildings that are being transitioned to the new grid will be fully powered by a generator for the remainder of the time it will take to complete the transition. Once a building undergoes its transition to the new grid, it will no longer be impacted by the ensuing transitions.

Note: Work on the south side of campus was completed in 2024.

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Full Project Schedule

Dates (all projects begin at 1 am)	Buildings being transitioned (first four hours without power, remainder with generator power)	Other impacted buildings (first four hours without power)
Outage #1: June 2 - 5	Bramley, Perry	Briggs, Harrison, Chapman, Dobson, Mortimer, Harmon, Dailey, Hazen, Benedict, Gordon, McFarlane, MacVicar, Brown, Brockway, Thompson, Seymour, Hartwell, Lathrop, Lennon, Rakov, Smith, Tower, Edwards, McLean, Holmes
Outage #2: June 9 - 12	Briggs, Harrison	Chapman, Dobson, Mortimer, Harmon, Dailey, Hazen, Benedict, Gordon, McFarlane, MacVicar, Brown, Brockway, Thompson, Seymour, Hartwell, Lathrop, Lennon, Rakov, Smith, Tower, Edwards, McLean, Holmes
Outage #3: June 16 - 19	Chapman, Mortimer	Dobson, Harmon, Dailey, Hazen, Benedict, Gordon, McFarlane, MacVicar, Brown, Brockway, Thompson, Seymour, Hartwell, Lathrop, Lennon, Rakov, Smith, Tower, Edwards, McLean, Holmes
Outage #4: June 23 - 25	Dobson, Harmon	Hazen, Daily, Benedict, Gordon, McFarlane, MacVicar, Brown, Brockway, Thompson, Seymour, Hartwell, Lathrop, Lennon, Rakov, Smith, Tower, Edwards, McLean, Holmes
Outage #5: June 30 - July 3	Hazen, Dailey	Benedict, Gordon, McFarlane, MacVicar, Brockway, Brown, Thompson, Seymour, Hartwell, Lathrop, Lennon, Rakov, Smith, Tower, Edwards, McLean, Holmes
Outage #6: July 7 - 10	Benedict, Gordon	McFarlane, MacVicar, Brockway, Thompson, Brown, Seymour, Hartwell, Lathrop, Lennon, Rakov, Smith, Tower, Edwards, McLean, Holmes
Outage #7: July 14 - 17	McFarlane, MacVicar	Brown, Brockway, Thompson, Seymour, Hartwell, Lathrop, Lennon, Rakov, Smith, Tower, Edwards, McLean, Holmes
Outage #8: July 17 - 18	Brown	Brockway, Thompson, Seymour, Hartwell, Lathrop, Lennon, Rakov, Smith, Tower, Edwards, McLean, Holmes
Outage #9: July 21 - 23	Brockway, Thompson	Seymour, Hartwell, Lathrop, Lennon, Rakov, Smith, Tower, Edwards, McLean, Holmes
Outage #10: July 28 - 30	Seymour, Hartwell	Lathrop, Lennon, Rakov, Smith, Tower, Edwards, McLean, Holmes
Outage #11: August 4 - 6	Lathrop, Lennon	Rakov, Smith, Tower, Edwards, McLean, Holmes
Outage #12: August 11 - 13	Rakov, Smith	Tower, Edwards, McLean, Holmes
Outage #13: August 14 - 17	Tower Fine Arts, Edwards	McLean, Holmes
Outage #14: August 29 - 31	McLean, Holmes

*Transition scheduled to last only 52 hours

Frequently Asked Questions

This project was a priority for the SUNY Construction Fund, the public corporation that designs, builds, and maintains facilities for the State University of New York. SUNY Brockport, due to our commitment to being a sustainable university for the 21st century, is eager to adopt a modernized electrical grid that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lower operating costs.

A significant amount of planning has taken place to limit the number and duration of power interruptions as buildings are disconnected and reconnected to the electrical grid. The work must be completed in a specific sequence. Our facilities planning team worked with the contractors and the SUNY Construction Fund to develop a plan that was both efficient and minimized the impact to our campus.

There will be no impact to the south side of campus during the outages. If everything goes to plan, we anticipate minimal impact to the north side of campus. Every building that is on the old grid will lose power for the first four hours of every scheduled outage. But that will take place between 1 and 5 am, when the campus is mostly vacant. The buildings that are being transitioned to the new grid will have full generator power beginning at 5 am on that first morning of work through the completion of the building’s transition to the new grid. Once a building is on the new grid, it won’t be impacted by future scheduled outages.

The Office of Residential Life will be housing all students who are living on campus this summer in either Eagle Hall or the Student Townhomes, which are both located on the south side of campus. McLean Hall is currently scheduled to transition to the new grid on Sept. 15, when the fall semester is underway. Unfortunately, this was unavoidable. Like all other buildings being transitioned, McLean will only be without power from 1 am until 5 pm on the first day of the transition. It will then have full generator power until work is complete.

The vast majority of classes will not be impacted. There is the potential for classes that are scheduled in Tower Fine Arts to be impacted during its transition because of some unique infrastructure that is specific to that building and may prevent the use of a generator. Our facilities planning team is working closely with our contractors to determine a solution. The Dean of Arts & Sciences is working with the departments housed in Tower on contingency plans, should a viable solution not emerge. Unfortunately, it was impossible to avoid this impact due to where Tower falls in the required sequence in which this work must be completed.

Preparing for Scheduled Outages

A few simple actions can help protect our building systems and equipment during a planned power outage. Please review the following recommendations for your area.

Offices

Remove food or trash from the office
Unplug any electronic devices not needed for critical operations
Power down desktop computers and turn off monitors. Bring your laptop home.
Turn off the lights

Kitchens or Break Rooms

Unplug appliances
Remove food or trash from the room
Empty refrigerators
Turn off the lights

Laboratories

Ensure fume hood sashes are properly lowered
Deactivate unused equipment
Close or turn off valves on unused gas cylinders
Ensure all tanks and gas cylinders are properly stored
Shut down and unplug all sensitive instrumentation
Shut down experiments

Full Project Schedule

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Preparing for Scheduled Outages

Offices

Kitchens or Break Rooms

Laboratories