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the same thing, like Kevin said. But they look a little different on
the software. And the fault codes might be different for a Trane
rooftop than a Carrier rooftop. Like Kevin said, they have similarities,
and they have some of their own nuances.”
CONCENTRATIONS IN THE CLASSROOM
The Four Concentrations that we discussed early in the tour
became manifest in the specialized training classrooms for some
of these disciplines. “Nuts and bolts are nuts and bolts, but when
we met with the people in the hospitals, they said, ‘Hey, nuts and
bolts are nuts and bolts, but we have things they don’t have over
there, like beds, and medical gas and things,” Coates explains.
“Then when it came to hotels, they said, ‘Well, nuts and bolts
are nuts and bolts, and boilers and things are good, but we have
icemakers and kitchen equipment, and things that are important
to our industry.’ We said, ‘OK, we’ve got to make sure we do that.’
“And then we went to data centers,” he continues. ‘Yeah, nuts
and bolts are good. We have all that stuff, but we have servers,
and we have fire suppression systems — we’re worried about
protecting servers. We like people, too, but we’re worried about
protecting server data, so it’s a different extinguishing system.’
We need to know that.”
For mobile maintenance, they found the situation was not unlike
the differently branded training equipment in the Lab, with
many situations common to others, but with their own idiosyncrasies.
“They said, ‘Yeah, bearings and all of that stuff is good,
but can we put somebody up on the roof, to feel comfortable
working on rooftop equipment? Sometimes there’s a lot of things
that they have to know.’ So there’s a lot of common pieces, but
then there’s a lot of pieces that are a little different.”
While equipment for hotels, including icemakers and other
amenity-based equipment, is small enough to be located in a
corner of the Lab, and mobile maintenance can be handled on
the standard equipment located there, training on some of the
highly specialized equipment involved in health care and data
storage demands appropriately dedicated space. Walking into
the hospital room, it’s hard to miss the three hospital beds along
one of the side walls, as well as the medical gas trainer that simulates
the setup commonly installed in the wall behind hospital
beds to accommodate the various compressed gases that given
medical situations might require.
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