The A/C cannot keep up the load, due to the exteme heat. So they decided to just not cool one part of the building, to be able to keep cooling the other part .. It is now interesting who was in which part ;)

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forgotaccount3 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Clearly those in floors 1->7 were less important and thus allowed to take the day off and/or work remotely, right?

	▲	alistairSH an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It was 4pm on Friday, so yes, they were probably heading home already.

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mytailorisrich 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If that's the case then the building's system was very badly designed...

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gwbas1c an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It was designed for historical, pre-climate-change weather. (Or at least when those were in the know about climate change thought we'd solve it.)

	▲	mytailorisrich an hour ago \| parent [-]
		There's probably a "Belgian joke" to be made if their AC is only designed to work when it isn't hot...

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alistairSH an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

That seems true - it's not a historic building - it was built in the mid- to late-1960s.