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Piedmont schools report large facilities push: HVAC inventory, roof work and safety inspections underway
Summary
Operations director Eddie Wright outlined a district-wide facilities effort including HVAC inventories and adjustments, fire-protection repairs, roof and plumbing work, and new preventive maintenance practices.
Eddie Wright, operations director for Piedmont Public Schools, told the board the operations department has completed an inventory and begun preventive maintenance across HVAC, fire-protection, plumbing and electrical systems districtwide.
Wright said the district has enlisted local contractors — EEI, Esco Mechanical, Luckinbill, Firetrol, Any Hour Plumbing, Grimes Electric, Universal Roofing, Corel Roofing and Lingo Construction — to support repairs and inspections. “One of the things that I love Randy for, he has done a phenomenal job getting into the systems and identifying how they work,” Wright said, referring to Randy Trail, the district’s new lead HVAC technician.
Wright described a recent humidity problem at the district’s ECC/Stone Ridge units: a room measured about 78% humidity until technicians adjusted unit settings and reduced it to roughly 40%. Darnell Zug,…
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