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Originally Posted by 1487
On the CC the chillers are not on top of the building if I remember correctly. But the fact that the building has multiple uses doesn't really have any bearing on where the chillers are located. The closer they are to the cooling towers the less pumping you have to do to remove heat via the CT so typically in high rises both are near the top of the building.
A cooling tower by itself, no matter where you see it cannot do anything alone. So to have a temp set up you need the piping, chiller, pumps, etc. which is why I doubt what we see is a temp set up for construction. My initial guess was that they are doing to stay there, but be blocked by some sort of shroud but someone else said they weren't in any of the renderings and thus should not be there when the building is done.
These buildings def have zones, but without ducts, air handlers, VAVs, controls, etc. you can use any of that.
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You really are impossible-------yes, its pretty clear to anyone with a pinch of common sense that a chiller by itself does nothing, and it needs pipes, pumps, etc. But what do you think they have been doing for the last 3 years; constructing a building which at some point in time includes those items.
Damn man, nobody is saying that the workers are wearing their Speedo's because its so cold in the building, or that any of the HVAC is working, yesterday, today or tomorrow; only that it might be a possibility that some of the equipment MIGHT be working.
After 3 years construction and considering the state of the building and that move in is not too far away, its not unreasonable to expect that a lot of the equipment in the building, such as HVAC, is available when needed.
All this just because of two pieces of equipment on a rooftop that are surprising in their visibility and that most people hope and expect to be moved at some point in the (near) future.