A new air compressor is lifted to the top of Kanawha County’s judicial building on Thursday.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Air-conditioning should be flowing throughout Kanawha County’s judicial building by Friday morning, following weeks of outages that occurred during some of the hottest days of the year.
Part of Court Street was briefly shut down Tuesday afternoon to make way for a crane lifting an air compressor to the roof of the Judicial Annex, Kanawha County Manager Jennifer Sayre said.
For almost two weeks, neither of the two air compressors has worked. The compressors sit on the roof of the judicial building and provide AC to different parts of the building.
While preparations were being made last week to repair a compressor that had slowed to working at just 50 to 60 percent capacity, the other stopped working entirely…