{"598900":{"#nid":"598900","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Power Outage Not Associated with Infrastructure Resiliency ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 14, 18 campus buildings abruptly went dark due to a power outage.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter an extensive infrastructure investigation, Facilities Management determined the source of the\u0026nbsp;outage, which affected\u0026nbsp;buildings in the Hill and central campus area,\u0026nbsp;to be associated with construction at the Library renovation site. Several departments work closely with contractors to prevent such instances, but\u0026nbsp;with an ever-evolving\u0026nbsp;campus, sometimes accidents happen.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There are many moving parts and pieces to managing daily operations alongside of\u0026nbsp;construction activities on a campus of our size,\u0026quot; said Mark Demyanek, assistant vice president of\u0026nbsp;Facilities Management - Operations and\u0026nbsp;Maintenance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe outage happened at 9:40 a.m. Between then and 11:40 a.m., when approximately\u0026nbsp;half of the buildings got power back, Facilities personnel checked 10 different switches at the transformer level. Once the team had a better idea of the proximity of the fault location, they then checked six manholes to identify the specific cable where the fault occurred.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe last section of electrical delivery infrastructure was turned on around 4:30 p.m., once all affected buildings and safety issues were assessed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Occasionally, the perils of construction overcome our best efforts to keep up the balancing act,\u0026quot; Demyanek said. \u0026quot;We apologize to the campus community for the inconveniences caused by the power disruption, and we want to reassure everyone that our underground electrical distribution system is very resilient and reliable.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Tuesday morning there was a power outage that affected 18 buildings on campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"On Tuesday morning there was a power outage that affected 18 buildings on campus. "}],"uid":"27705","created_gmt":"2017-11-16 21:49:07","changed_gmt":"2022-05-26 17:09:36","author":"Jessica Rose","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/facilities.gatech.edu\/","title":"Facilities Management"},{"url":"http:\/\/prepare.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of Emergency Preparedness"}],"groups":[{"id":"383831","name":"Facilities Management"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"436","name":"electricity"},{"id":"349","name":"campus"},{"id":"113671","name":"resiliency"},{"id":"172","name":"infrastructure"},{"id":"176284","name":"operations \u0026 maintenance"},{"id":"169981","name":"electric utilities"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFacilities Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jrose@gatech.edu "],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}