The Facilities Department will begin the process of switching mechanical plants from heating to cooling mode on Friday, April 15. Where redundancy and weather permit, the team will take boilers offline and begin the process of end-of-season maintenance. Building Engineers will also begin to prepare the central cooling plants to allow them to be operational as the weather necessitates. As a general rule, cooling plants are not placed online until mid-May but of course, the weather drives the actual timing.