Day 166 - 28 Sep 95 - Page 39
1 central place?
2 A. Yes, in a panel, yes.
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4 Q. A panel?
5 A. Yes.
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is not what you have just said. I had
8 understood you to say -- tell me which is right -- there
9 was a thermostat on the control panel of each unit. Were
10 the units all in one room?
11 A. Yes, they are in the HVAC room.
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13 Q. I see.
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15 MS. STEEL: In the what room?
16 A. HVAC room -- heating, ventilation and air
17 conditioning.
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Heating ventilation and?
20 A. Air conditioning, HVAC -- hating, ventilation, air
21 conditioning, yes.
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23 MS. STEEL: There were four thermostats in there, were there?
24 A. Yes.
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26 Q. One for each of the units?
27 A. Yes.
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29 Q. Or were there more for different rooms of parts of units?
30 A. One per unit, as far as I am aware.
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32 Q. Right. Presumably, crew would not have had responsibility
33 for setting these?
34 A. No.
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36 Q. They would have been controlled by management?
37 A. Controlled by engineers really, unless people really
38 know what they are doing, and I would not even profess to
39 know, you know, a great deal myself. They will be set by
40 engineers and obviously checked when servicing.
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42 Q. Does that mean that when you have a sudden change in the
43 weather and it becomes very hot you have to call out an
44 engineer under to change from -----
45 A. No.
46
47 Q. No. So what happens then?
48 A. They adjust themselves.
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50 Q. You can make simple changes?
51 A. They adjust themselves.
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53 Q. Entirely?
54 A. Yes.
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think the difficulty is that most of us
57 think we are lucky if we have central heating, so all that
58 is doing is making sure you are warm enough; yours makes
59 sure you are cool enough as well?
60 A. Yes, especially in the summer.
