By Joyce Er (15A01A), Wilson Chan (15A01C) and Celine Liu (15A01E)
It takes a special kind of person to maintain all the technology facilities on a campus as large as RI’s while running the lights and sounds at various school concerts and events. “It’s not easy,” shares Mr Philip Lim of the Estate (AV) department as he reclines in an office chair in the Estate office room. When we ask how work gets done in his department, his responses are measured and thorough. From the sound of it, his compact team has it down to a science. “There are seven of us in total, including the RI Y1-4 side. Replacing the projectors takes four years, it’s what we call the cyclical process of maintenance. This June we’re replacing the projectors on levels 2–4. In December we’ll change those on levels 5 to 7. Next June we’ll replace those in block J and the rest of the blocks, and so on…by the time all the projectors have been replaced, it’ll have been a four year cycle and we start all over again.”
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