Crews were once again out on North Burke Bradley Drive on Feb. 3 fixing a pipe that was damaged following a shutdown of the HVAC system in January. This comes less than 2 weeks after a break in the same area left the campus without heat on Jan. 23, and an earlier failure shuttered campus before the start of the spring semester.
“We had a break on our HVAC return line,” said Stacy Pinola, director of facility planning for San Joaquin Delta college, also noting that the Jan. 23 break had been the outgoing line.
According to Pinola, the pipes were nearly 30 years old and not particularly well insulated, which led to them expanding and contracting over time. This eventually lead to the breaks that caused the last two incidents…