{"675651":{"#nid":"675651","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chilled Water Outage Affects Campus","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarly Friday morning, the campus chilled water distribution system, responsible for air conditioning campus buildings, experienced a significant service disruption. Teams from both Emergency Management and Infrastructure and Sustainability worked quickly to alert the campus community and identify the locations of the disruptions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo allow for repairs, the team initiated a partial shutdown of the campus cooling system, which affected more than 40 buildings on campus. (See the attached map with affected buildings indicated in red.) Building managers, faculty, and researchers collaborated on mitigation strategies with more than 50 spot coolers deployed throughout campus.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERepair work is ongoing, and many campus buildings remain without air conditioning. As a result, changes to final exam schedules and locations, research mitigation strategies, and altered campus operations are expected to continue.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECrosland Tower and the Price Gilbert Library are affected but remain open, however students are encouraged to relocate to the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons where temperatures are more comfortable. The John Lewis Student Center, Stamps Commons, Stamps Health Services, and the Ferst Center for the Arts are closed until further notice.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe campus chilled water system will remain unstable until the primary leak, which has been isolated, has been completely repaired. The repair will allow the two campus chiller water plants to be reconnected to restore full service to campus. In the interim, a series of bypasses and temporary connections have been installed to minimize the effects on campus.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the first time these chiller plants have operated in this mode and additional disruptions are expected. All requests for assistance, including spot coolers, should be routed through your building manager.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor current information about the status of the chilled water outage, including changes to campus operations, visit this \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/facilities.gatech.edu\/chilled-water-outage\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewebpage\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe campus chilled water distribution system recently experienced two service disruptions.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The campus chilled water distribution system recently experienced two service disruptions."}],"uid":"35028","created_gmt":"2024-07-29 14:07:56","changed_gmt":"2024-07-29 15:35:21","author":"cbrim3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674438":{"id":"674438","type":"image","title":"chilled_water_map_july29.png","body":null,"created":"1722262545","gmt_created":"2024-07-29 14:15:45","changed":"1722262545","gmt_changed":"2024-07-29 14:15:45","alt":"Map of buildings affected by chilled water outage.","file":{"fid":"257948","name":"chilled_water_map_july29.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/07\/29\/chilled_water_map_july29.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/07\/29\/chilled_water_map_july29.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1212684,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/07\/29\/chilled_water_map_july29.png?itok=HKa7Xdqu"}},"674439":{"id":"674439","type":"image","title":"chilled_water_workers.jpg","body":null,"created":"1722263982","gmt_created":"2024-07-29 14:39:42","changed":"1722263982","gmt_changed":"2024-07-29 14:39:42","alt":"Workers attend to the chilled water outage repair site.","file":{"fid":"257951","name":"chilled_water_workers.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/07\/29\/chilled_water_workers.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/07\/29\/chilled_water_workers.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":471955,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/07\/29\/chilled_water_workers.jpg?itok=RN_a9G2p"}}},"media_ids":["674438","674439"],"groups":[{"id":"383831","name":"Facilities Management"},{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"193728","name":"I\u0026S News"},{"id":"35921","name":"Facilities Management"},{"id":"193865","name":"Chilled Water Outage"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECatherine Brim\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\/Infrastructure and Sustainability\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["cathy.brim@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}