The Transport team offers the collection, transportation, and delivery of various items across campus. This includes the collection and disposal of waste products such as polystyrene, e-waste, scrap metal, old batteries, and waste oil.
Some collection and delivery services are routine and planned, with others being deemed an additional service, available by request.
Other items available for collection and delivery include:
- Appliances/equipment
- Archive boxes
- Change of course bollards and signs
- Chemical collections — completed weekly
- Display boards — available for hire
- Empty packing boxes
- Exercise equipment
- Lecterns
- Mattresses
- Method bins
- Mobile trollies
- Road cones and barrier poles
- Taiko drums
The Transport team is also responsible for the collection, transport, and delivery of furniture for examinations and graduation ceremonies, as well as other University of Otago events. A request is required for these services.
Items for graduation ceremonies are collected from the basement of the Clocktower and transported to the Dunedin Town Hall, where the ceremonies occur. This includes chairs, tables, rolls of carpet, and lecterns.
During the exam period, the Transport team provides services including:
- Delivery of examination booklets and other paperwork
- Setting up examination rooms
- Setting up directional signs
Transport also sets up and packs down furniture and items used during the enrolment and course approval period on campus.