ERI building air conditioning is fully operational

As always, there are many projects and activities going on in our organization currently, making for a busy schedule. One thing that's been a welcome change since returning from the May 1 holiday here in Beijing is that our building's central air conditioning is finally operational.

For the last two weeks or so at the end of April, the outside temperature in Beijing was pretty warm. Those of us in offices with doors, rather than cubicles, had no way to keep cool other than opening the window. This provided some air movement, but typically didn't make things better, since it let it lots of dust and humid air. Turning on the air conditioner vent in our offices would simply blow warm, stagnant air out of the vent, as our multi-use office building's central air conditioner was not yet activated. This made for some uncomfortable visitors to our site recently. Unfortunately, we're not the only tenants in the building, so the decision of when to finally activate the central air is not completely up to us.

This week, I happily discovered that the vent in my office now blows nice, cold air. To make up for lost time and the excessive sweating of the past couple weeks, I had the cold air turned up as much as it would go when I first found out. What a great relief it is to have air conditioning finally. It lets you more fully appreciate the small things.

Posted at 11:29AM May 07, 2008 by erick in China  |  Comments[1]