VP of Infrastructure & Sustainability / Innovator / Thought Leader / Entrepreneur / Consultant
December was an action-packed month. The City of Atlanta had a couple water outages on our campus. Hats off to the City for their quick response. We also had the largest planned chilled water outage on the campus in over 30 years. Aging infrastructure is the cause of many utility failures. It is common in municipalities and campuses all over the USA. Because of the hard work of many people including William Varnado and his team, Greg Spiro P.E., LEED AP, CEM and his team, Catherine Brim and the communications team and Will Smith and the emergency management team, countless future emergencies have been avoided. It is not to say that we will not have any more failures, but new valves been installed in places and critical preemptive repairs have been made. It just increases our odds in a positive way! All in all, the outage was a success. The projects finished ahead of schedule and we were able to get additional information to plan for future work. All of this takes a team. A special thanks to Maria Cimilluca and Shantay B. for supporting this outage. Thank you Juan Camilo Archila and others that are a part of the research team. Thanks again to Zach Worley and the building managers, Jammie Gaines and the maintenance teams, and all the others that played a role. Difficult decisions should never be avoided but they should always be well planned. Planning is a critical element to accomplish your goals. You must be able to prioritize, understand contingencies, and be ready to execute well. If I had avoided things because they were difficult, I would have never graduated from Georgia Tech. Great things often take hard work, and I am excited that we have a team that comes together when most needed. Thanks again to all that were a part of the successful chilled water outage. #maintenance #engineering #infrastructure #chilledwater #finance #engineering #construction #analytics #communication #landscaping #it
Skye Duckett
9mo
I heard great things about how this went. Kudos to all involved!
Tara Adams, CEFP
9mo
Well said! It was great working with I&S Teams on this. Job well done.
Just Terrific! 💯
Academic & Research Facilities Infrastructure Director
9moKudos to I&S for the execution and to the whole team for the communication! It’s important that we are in lockstep, especially since, in the end, we all have the same goals.