Electrical Shop

Services Provided:

  • Preventive maintenance & repairs to all campus high voltage electrical systems.
  • Preventive maintenance and repairs to campus low voltage electrical systems.
  • Customer Service: Restore power to tripped circuit breakers, lighting repair, and small modifications to existing electrical systems.
  • Elevators: Oversee maintenance, repairs, upgrades and permitting.
  • Exterior Lighting: All path lighting and street lighting, re-lamping and repairs. Weekly lighting route preventive maintenance.
  • Interior Lighting: Systematic group re-lamping on a 3-4 year cycle. Weekly Preventive maintenance.
  • Maintenance and Repair of lighting control panels and other electrical lighting devices.
  • Energy savings: Energy savings through retrofitting fixtures with state of the art lighting systems (i.e. LED fixtures, ballasts, energy saving lamps & motion sensors).
  • Emergency Generators and Related Systems Controls. Preventive Maintenance and repairs.
  • Construction Interface with PP&C, Work Management and Contractors: Shutdowns, plan review and comments. Create punch list items.

     Electrical Senior Superintendent:
     Gary Riggs (831) 459-1360 or Email: gcriggs@ucsc.edu


     High-Low voltage Shops:

     Supervisor
     Johnny Clifton, (831) 459-4683 or Email: jclifton@ucsc.edu


     Lighting Shop:

     Supervisor
    Johnny Clifton, (831) 459-4683 or Email: jclifton@ucsc.edu


Special Note:

When ordering equipment for campus installation please note the following available voltages in most campus buildings is:
480 volt, 3 phase / 277 volt, 1 phase
208 volt, 3 phase / 120 volt, 1 phase
Please call the Electric Shop with any specific questions relating to these voltages.


Reach our Work Order Desk by calling (831) 459-4444 or e-mailing the wodesk@ucsc.edu or clicking the button to the left to make an on-line work request.