{"675684":{"#nid":"675684","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chilled Water Pipe Repairs Continue","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInfrastructure and Sustainability (I\u0026amp;S) will begin work today to repair the chilled water pipe under Cherry Street in Harrison Square. This project will help address a significant system disruption that is the primary cause of the recent chilled water system outage. When repaired, normal service should be restored to all affected campus buildings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is a massive 24-inch-diameter pipe more than 20 feet deep under Cherry Street that feeds the west campus from the Holland Chiller Plant and needs to be repaired immediately,\u201d said Jim Stephens, interim vice president for I\u0026amp;S. \u201cMuch of the work our team has been doing since December has been to install or replace chilled water system valves so that this exact work could be performed safely and with minimal disruption. While we planned to repair this pipe during the cooler months later this fall, the recent unplanned failure requires us to act now.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERepairing this pipe will necessitate closing Cherry Street from Ferst Drive to Bobby Dodd Way. Vehicular and pedestrian traffic will be prohibited in this area during construction. An anticipated timeline for completing this repair will be determined once crews examine the pipe and better understand the scope of the damage.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the pipe repair in Harrison Square, the I\u0026amp;S team has begun to bring the chilled water system online for several buildings. It may take a few days to restore service to these buildings fully, and the focus remains on addressing service to the research buildings. Currently, buildings shown on the map in\u003Cstrong\u003E purple\u003C\/strong\u003E are receiving intermittent chilled water while those in \u003Cstrong\u003Ered\u003C\/strong\u003E remain out of service. Buildings in \u003Cstrong\u003Eblue\u003C\/strong\u003E remain functional.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStephens added, \u201cOur teams are dedicated to minimizing this disruption to the best of our ability. I am very grateful to everyone in the campus community for coming together to act quickly and mitigate the effect on our people, operations, and mission-critical work. \u201c\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Visit the Chilled Water Outage \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/facilities.gatech.edu\/chilled-water-outage\u0022\u003Ewebpage\u003C\/a\u003E for regular updates and a building status list.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInfrastructure and Sustainability (I\u0026amp;S) will begin work today to repair the chilled water pipe under Cherry Street in Harrison Square.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Infrastructure and Sustainability (I\u0026S) will begin work today to repair the chilled water pipe under Cherry Street in Harrison Square."}],"uid":"35028","created_gmt":"2024-07-30 15:29:05","changed_gmt":"2024-08-02 00:57:14","author":"cbrim3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674450":{"id":"674450","type":"image","title":"chilled_water_map_july30_purple.png","body":null,"created":"1722357903","gmt_created":"2024-07-30 16:45:03","changed":"1722357903","gmt_changed":"2024-07-30 16:45:03","alt":"Map of building status during chilled water outage 7\/30\/24","file":{"fid":"257967","name":"chilled_water_map_july30_purple.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/07\/30\/chilled_water_map_july30_purple.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/07\/30\/chilled_water_map_july30_purple.png","mime":"image\/png","size":676945,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/07\/30\/chilled_water_map_july30_purple.png?itok=pZpegeSx"}},"674481":{"id":"674481","type":"image","title":"Harrison Square Detour Path Aug. 2024.jpg","body":null,"created":"1722560141","gmt_created":"2024-08-02 00:55:41","changed":"1722560141","gmt_changed":"2024-08-02 00:55:41","alt":"Map of Harrison Square Detour","file":{"fid":"258016","name":"Harrison Square Detour Path Aug. 2024.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/08\/01\/Harrison%20Square%20Detour%20Path%20Aug.%202024.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/08\/01\/Harrison%20Square%20Detour%20Path%20Aug.%202024.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":334452,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/08\/01\/Harrison%20Square%20Detour%20Path%20Aug.%202024.jpg?itok=qfXsa4y2"}}},"media_ids":["674450","674481"],"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":"61411","name":"Campus Construction"},{"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\u003ERachael Pocklington\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Strategic Communications and Initiatives\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rpocklington@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}