Safe-T-Elements, Part II, Christiana West Tower

As in the post last week, this week highlights our continuing program to replace all our traditional electrical stoves on campus with the new Safe-T-Element model that reduces the risk of unattending cooking fires. With the help of Kevin McSweeney, our University Fire Marshall, we managed to replace all the stoves in Christiana West on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Although we first removed the old stoves in the morning, we minimized the disruption to those students here for Winter Session by delivering to them the new stove prior to the end the day. Again as was the case with the Conover West installation, all the stoves were sent to Diamond State Recycling Company in Wilmington, so that there metal content could be re-used. Also, all cardboard packing material for the new stoves was recycled by our Grounds Department.

Conover West gets Safe-T-Element Stoves

Welcome to the New Year and another 12 months of replacements, renos, switches, and various other miscellaneous improvements on UD Campus. We started the new year this week by replacing all the stoves in our graduate housing area in Conover West Apartments with Safe-T-Element stoves. The Safe-T-Element feature prevents unattended cooking fires by regulating the temperature of the burners so that they do not exceed a certain degree, even if left on. Traditional coil burners continue to heat up if left unattended potentially causing a fire. Next week we will be replacing all the stoves in Christiana West with the same Safe-T-Element stoves. After that, all residence hall cooking areas will have the stoves except for the last phase that will hit Residence Life Apartments in the Spring. The photo shows the old stoves being loaded up in a dumpster that won't be going to a landfill, but will be picked up by Diamond State Recycling Company so that the stoves will be recycled and not trashed.