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Keene superintendent says middle-school heating pumps, rooftop units tripped; district replacing small tubing and monitoring units
Summary
Superintendent Rob Malay told the board that two pumps and two rooftop HVAC units at the middle school tripped early on Jan. 21; facilities staff restarted units, are replacing small-diameter radiant tubing with larger tubing to prevent blockages, and are monitoring intermittent faults with electricians and an HVAC contractor on standby.
Superintendent Rob Malay and facilities staff told the Keene Board of Education on Jan. 21 that crews responded early that morning to multiple faults in the Keene Middle School heating system and have taken steps to restore and stabilize temperatures.
“Today we detected that two of the pumps that feed hot water up to the rooftop units … they had tripped off, and so they were able to restart those immediately,” Malay said in his superintendent’s report. He described the system as having two main components: rooftop units that mix outside air and a hot-water distribution loop that feeds radiant panels.
Facilities director Ken Dooley and his team identified two separate issues: (1) two rooftop units went into a fault status and were restarted, and (2) some of the smaller-diameter tubing that serves radiant panels had become partially blocked over time. The district said crews…
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