Geek in progress

Oh joy. After installing a bunch of sun protection screens on the building windows, they decided to turn the power breaker off. So, during what is probably going to be one of the warmer weeks this year, the entire installation is quite useless. So much for good planning.

All south-facing windows in the building where I work, have been equipped with sun screens. That is, against the outer wall, technicians have installed electrical sun screens. The idea is that by keeping the sun out during the summer (it can get really warm in here) we would somehow be saving energy. Yet the only air-conditioning devices are located in the server rooms. And they lie next to a cool hallway. I wonder how long it will take before the screens are attached to power: the wire is there, I can see it hanging from the window (through which they drilled a hole), but nobody came by to (i) clean up the dirt, or (ii) connect the screen to power. Sigh.

If the university wanted to do something about the poor state of the building, we would have received new, double-glass windows, with high-insulating gas between the glass layers. But oh no … better we have sun screens.

I sometimes fail to grasp the decisions people at the upper echelons take. No, make that most of the time.