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Rod Hahn: So I'm the Building Manager for buildings 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9. It's my role [phone
rings] -- excuse me, I'll just take a call ... hello, Rod speaking ... yeah, thank you.
Can you tell me a bit about the water leak? Is it from the ceiling?
Okay. I'm Rod Hahn. I'm the Building Supervisor for buildings 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8. A typical
day would be, I start about 5.30 in the morning. I get some contractors that come in at the
same time, so I'll direct them what works they've got to do for the day, and then off
we go. Now that can include anything; there may be water leaks over the weekend from rain,
or could be failures from hydraulic systems, could be electrical faults.
The way I see it, it's like a Swiss watch for me -- and so I take a big cog on the outside,
which is UTS, which is all full of little faculties. And inside that, again, is other
services, like Central Services, Security Services, Student Housing -- we all work in
together. PMO, FMO, all of those [people] working inside that cog, and if one of those
fails somewhere, then that affects everyone else, so just a simple water leak on the first
appearance can be something that's more complex.
[Sound effects: tap dripping. Music playing]
Rod Hahn: An example of that would be a water leak in an office that was from the ceiling.
The first thing I do is go and try and stop the water, obviously. So you go and have a
look at the ceiling and see a wet tile. So you take the tile out, so I get a carpenter
to come in. Then we can see the water dripping from a duct, so I'll get the air conditioning
contractor out -- he comes out and checks the air conditioning duct, but then he finds
that there's a pipe above that, which will be a fire sprinkler pipe, so then we have
Chubb Fire out here. They come out and they check the pipe -- the sprinkler pipe. And
then he might find it's actually coming through a crack in the floor slab above, and it came
from a sink that overflowed. The point I was trying to make with that is that the simple
water leak that you just think you can fix yourself ends up being four or five different
contracts involved to come out and resolve that for you.
In the new buildings, it'll be the volume of equipment that we won't be prepared for.
And I've got some figures here just on the new Thomas Street building; in this current
building I've got 46 fan coil units and 14 air handlers, whereas in the new building,
I'm going to have 191 fan coil units and I'll have 46 air handing units. So I believe that
the Broadway building's got 1400 fan coil units. So again, for us, it'll be quite a
challenge, I believe.
What I'd like people to understand is that we're here to provide a service for them.
We need to move with them and grow with them. It'll be a learning curve while we get to
know the buildings and how they work. There's going to be some teething problems, and if
we can get through that first 12 months together, it'll be great.