Useful contact information

Emmanuelle Gantet

The Palais des Nations, together with its parks and gardens and its technical facilities, is an outstanding heritage site and architectural complex of the first rank requiring continuous and careful maintenance. The Buildings and Engineering Section is a multi-skilled team of 90 men and women specializing in about 20 different occupations and professions: architects, engineers, draughtsmen, electricians, mechanics, removal staff, cabinetmakers, painters, builders, upholsterers ... A wealth of expertise is on hand to enhance your professional comfort and quality of life.

Their objective is to enhance and embellish this site of more than 46 hectares and ensuring that it operates as effectively as possible. They are also here to meet certain of your requirements.... If you want to make greater use of their services, you
need to call them.

Furniture

For every order standard furniture, such as tables, chairs and cupboards, from the list in the reference catalogue (GS.48) available from the administrative assistants in your service. An invitation to tender has now been opened which will amend the current standards with a view to obtaining more up-to- date, ergonomically designed furniture. This could lead to changes in the present procedure.
Form: Send form GS.9a to room  
Contact: Mr. Mehmet Tekyildiz Tel. 759.48.

Removal

Ask us to contact you in order to inventory furniture, telephone and computer points, identify the cleaning to be done, etc., and coordinate the various services concerned.
Form: Send form GS.57 to room 30. 
Contact: Ms. Laëtitia Menin, tel. 728.33.

Handling Form: Send form GS.57 to room 30.

Except removals: Mr. Manuel Ibias. Tel. 725.03, or mail.

Exhibitions (in connection with a conference): Mr. Mehmet Tekyildiz, tel. 759.48, or mail.

Cleaning

Cleaning is done by an outside contractor.

In emergencies: Contact: Mr. Jean-Claude Roques. Tel. 719.82

Technical assistance

For repairs to lighting, electricity, heating, air-conditioning, lifts, plumbing, or beepers, call the central number and a technician
will be alerted.
Contact : Mr. Victor Viveros. Tél. 725.48 (24 hours)

Assistance to conference participants

Repairs to audio visual and simultaneous interpretation equipment.
Contact persons: Mr. Christian Dabronyi, Mr. François Rattoni, Mr. Gérard Varidel, tel. 750.50

Craftsmen

Maintenance and repairs (painting, woodwork, locks, building work).
Form: Send form GS.57 to office 30 
Contact: Mr. Michel Baronian, tel. 721.19

The cost of efficiency: let’s clear the air

In very hot weather, certain areas of the Palais are air-conditioned, namely, the conference rooms, the new wing or E Building (900 offices and communal areas), the cafeteria, the eighth-floor restaurant, the Press Bar, and the lobby at Door 6.

A chilled water network fed by five 6° C sets cools the air that flows through 91 ventilation units. The equipment is maintained by a team of 12 technicians including 1 refrigeration engineer, Mr. Pierre Monod, and 4 control and regulation specialists.

The replacement of four of these sets in 2001-2002, and the fifth in 2004-2005, requires a budget of 7.5 million Swiss francs spread over two biennia. The ventilation units are also obsolescent and need changing. Already, 750,000 Swiss francs have been invested in this project in the new wing alone.

The new equipment, fitted with the latest technology, enables UNOG to conform to environmental regulations. It makes possible better temperature control, lower maintenance costs and a reduction of energy consumption of the order of 20 per cent. For this investment to translate into greater chilled-air comfort and allow the new equipment to operate at peak efficiency, please keep the windows in air-conditioned offices closed! In hot weather, when you want to lower the temperature in your air-conditioned office by 1° C, you use 6 per cent more energy to make this reduction possible!

Those information, and others will be available in the quarterly edition that the Buildings and Engineering Section is launching at the end of this month.