{"id":3244,"date":"2014-08-21T17:54:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T21:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randpc.com\/blog\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2014-08-21T19:07:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T23:07:24","slug":"chilling-on-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/chilling-on-the-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilling on the Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Relocating chillers on the roof at 135 Montgomery Street after Irene and Sandy places them out of harm's way during future flooding.<\/p><\/div>\n

The board at 135 Montgomery Street, a 21-story residential co-op in Jersey City, knows their building\u2019s prime location along the waterfront comes at a price. In 2011, Hurricane Irene destroyed the new chillers that replaced the building\u2019s original chillers from 1963 only two years earlier. Barely a year later, Superstorm Sandy struck, flooding the ground floor and mechanical room, including the practically new chillers.<\/p>\n

Realizing that the property is susceptible to flooding from future storms, the board decided they needed to put the third set of replacement chillers out of harm\u2019s way. The new location? Up on the roof.<\/p>\n

In this brief podcast<\/a> with Habitat<\/a> magazine, RAND\u2019s Principal and Mechanical\/Electrical\/Plumbing Team Leader Peter Varsalona discusses the replacement and relocation of the chillers and the challenge of completing the project in a tight six-month time frame before the summer cooling season. For more on the project, see our previous blog post Three Times the Chill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now whenever there\u2019s the threat of a major storm, the board at 135 Montgomery Street know they\u2019ve taken the proper steps to protect their building\u2019s cooling system and hopefully avoid a repeat of disasters past.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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