In The Trenches

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 03:49 AM

Prince George, B.C.- The trenches have been opened , pipes are being upgraded and more added, as UNBC works towards improving efficiency of its heating and cooling system.

Earlier this year, UNBC received $21.7 million to build a plant that will use waste wood as biofuel and upgrade the campus’s heating and cooling equipment and machinery.

The project was in two parts, with construction of a $14.8 million waste wood gasification plant at the Prince George campus being part one.

The second part of the project, was the $6.9 million replacement of aging heating, ventilation and cooling equipment and machinery in the university’s buildings.

The project is expected to be completed by March of 2010.

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Posted on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 03:49 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: gus on October 27 2009 4:23 AM

"AGING heating, ventilation and cooling equipment and machinery in the university’s buildings"

AGING???? The original buildings are around 15 years old.

What is wrong with our construction these days?

The exterior walls of Jail had to be replaced due a break down of the exterior building envelope, exposing rusting steel framing.

The leaky condo fiasco in the lower mainland.

Posted by: Denaljo on October 27 2009 5:26 AM

Taxpayer $$$ at work! Just what are we teaching these people up on the hill???

Posted by: Poppa on October 27 2009 7:02 AM

AGING???? The original buildings are around 15 years old

gus
I did some work up there a few years ago and I had to do repairs on some of the doors just to gain access to the areas I was working in. At that time I got the feeling of being on a movie set- just a bunch of false fronts with nothing behind.

Posted by: socredible on October 27 2009 8:00 AM

Just look at the way a lot of houses are built nowadays. Lots of wonderful features previous generations never had, but many won't last out the length of the mortgage before having to be rebuilt. I think the problem isn't that we don't know HOW to build something properly in the first place, but that we've been convinced that there's no way that we can "financially" AFFORD to.

Posted by: astro on October 27 2009 11:09 AM

socredible said, "I think the problem isn't that we don't know HOW to build something properly in the first place." I think we do know how to build but the building code has been changed to reduce the cost of construction so they can be built faster and cheaper. Look at the leaky condos.

Posted by: metalman on October 27 2009 4:47 PM

"aging heating and ventilation and cooling equipment" 2009 - 1997? equals twelve years for the oldest areas of the UNI, and some of the buildings and their equipment are much newer. The Ashrae mean life expectancy for good quality hvac equipment is about twenty years, so who is b.s.ing who? Or is the information just garbled? Probably the latter.
metalman.