The internal rain gutters exist thanks to the HEQC. You might wonder what rain gutters have to do with Quality Assurance, and indeed those that notice them, do. But were it not for the HEQC's Accreditation visit to the School of Education having been scheduled during monsoon season, staff in the Humanities Graduate School Building would still be coming to work with aqualungs and wetsuits. Since the installation of the gutters, goggles and snorkel suffice.
It's not that the leaks are new. They date back to... oh, before The Outsourcing, when we still had Building Supervisors to report and follow up on such matters, and a Maintenance Department to collect the pink forms and file them somewhere.
But they're probably not as old as the water features in the Arts Block. Luckily students seem to be increasingly dissuaded from studying languages, which would allow us to remove the electronics from the Language Lab and allow it to turn itself into a large indoor pool. In fact, as an income generating activity, plans were being considered to turn it into a jacuzzi, before the power outages pulled the plug on heating on Campus.
The Beattie Building too has its share of perennial leaks, and Leslie is as soggy as a sponge. But somewhere, unseen, hiding away, must be a dry, leak-proof building within the University holdings.
We suspect it's Bremner....