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Re: Fwd: W20 roof leak
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Wed Jun 22 17:01:51 2005
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
cc: apo-exec@MIT.EDU, apo-printshop@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:15:51 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:01:37 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
Another update...
Earlier today I spoke with Chad Haskell, who'd left me voicemail a couple
of times saying that they fixed the leak and we should let them know if we
see more problems. He told me that they had trouble getting into our office
because their keys don't work so well with the electronic locks, and was
working on making an appointment with CAC during the next week to let them
in. I short-circuited the process and met him and one of his team members
at the office this afternoon.
It turns out they only thought they'd fixed the problem, but in fact did
nothing related to it - they solved a different problem that involved one of
the HVAC units in the W20 cluster's machine room leaking into an office on
the opposite corner of the building. Our leak is coming from the roof, or
so we think.
We went up to the reading room, but didn't go outside for lack of their
having a key to the window. The current plan is that Chad is going to have
the roofers come over tomorrow with hoses and get CAC to let us out of the
reading room, and then find the leak with the hoses. We'll see how that
works.
I also asked about Len's description of possible structural failure due to
rusted rebar in cracked concrete, and Chad denied that it was a realistic
concern unless water had been repeatedly freezing and thawing in the concrete
(of course I thought that was how cracks formed in concrete, but that's the
answer I got).
Mitch
