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Re: Fwd: W20 roof leak
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Thu Jul 14 17:28:02 2005
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
cc: apo-exec@MIT.EDU, apo-printshop@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:01:18 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:27:40 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
Yay updates. For anyone who hasn't been playing the home game over zephyr:
I met with Lianne Scott of CAC and spoke with Eddie of W. S. Aiken Roofing
(MIT's roofing contractor) yesterday. Since the D-Zone team failed to
handle our problem as they should have, Facilities transferred responsibility
to their Structural and Paint Team, which brought in Eddie and also Plant's
pipefitting people. Eddie spent much of Tuesday on our roof, shoveled the
gravel away, found cracks in the rubber roofing, and re-flashed it. The
theory is that this fixes our roof leak and we should expect to be dry next
time it rains.
I also told Lianne about the various other leaks in W20 I've learned of while
doing this, and as you may have seen, she contacted several other groups
today to discuss the problems.
They also seem to think we have a pipe sweating problem in our ceiling. The
Structural team has now transferred our case (which is work order 4553250 if
anyone cared) to the Piping team. My conversation with Lianned today indicated
that the pipefitters should be in early tomorrow morning to further assess the
problem and hopefully conduct their repairs and reinsulate the pipe. Eddie
da roofer should also be back tomorrow to look at nearby sections of roof and
check out our neighbors' offices. With luck, I'll hear more tomorrow, but
Lianne is out until Tuesday, and so if info goes directly to her instead of
the on-duty CAC manager, it may have to wait over the weekend.
She'll also be having someone come in to check out the origin of the rust
stains on our floor and whether anything's wrong with the radiators, and says
that MIT will replace our ceiling tiles once the roofer and pipefitters
confirm that they're done (hopefully next week). She also offered to initiate
insurance claims for us if any of our equipment was damaged. I believe (and
indicated to her) that this isn't the case, but told her I'd like to reserve
judgment until we run the press after all is done and we can take off the
tarps.
Mitch
> After a lack of visible progress on this, and several broken promises from
> Chad about when he or the roofers would get back to me, and much difficulty
> in getting him on the phone or over e-mail, as well as much difficulty in
> getting Joe Vella (who supervises the roofers) to answer the phone or return
> pages, and in light of the fact that we haven't had use of our back office
> for over a month now, I escalated this issue to Bernard Richard (the Manager
> of Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing Operations) today - he's the next
> level up from the Supervisors of D-Zone and Carpentry and Construction (Chad
> Haskell and Joe Vella, respectively). We'll see if he gets anywhere with
> it.
>
> Mitch
>
> > 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 offic
> e
> > 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 o
> f
> > 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 concre
> te
> > (of course I thought that was how cracks formed in concrete, but that's the
> > answer I got).
> >
> > Mitch
> >
