Air conditioning and HVAC work under way at five buildings

What happened

Brick is replacing heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems across its older buildings, with separate contracts and change orders running through the year: Thermal Piping at the Warren H. Wolf Early Childhood Development Center, Thassian on the Osbornville and Midstreams project, and Chappelle Mechanical at the Herbertsville Early Childhood Development Center, plus air-conditioning work at Midstreams and Osbornville, a chiller at Brick Memorial High School, boiler projects, and ADA chair lifts at Brick Township High School. Capital project accounts in the January 2026 board secretary's report show roughly $27.9 million committed across the construction lines.

Why it matters to families

These are the buildings where Brick's youngest children and its high schoolers spend the day, and air conditioning decides whether classrooms are usable in a September or June heatwave. The work is being paid for out of capital funds rather than borrowing, which is why the facilities committee has started talking about a referendum for the rest.

The evidence

The May 28, 2026 approved minutes record a change order with Chappelle Mechanical for the Herbertsville HVAC project; the April 30, 2026 minutes record a change order with Thassian for the Osbornville and Midstreams HVAC project; the October 16, 2025 minutes record a change order with Thermal Piping for the Warren H. Wolf HVAC project. Facilities committee reports through the year list air-conditioning projects at those buildings, the Brick Memorial chiller and the high school chair lifts, and the January 2026 budget transfer schedules show the Midstreams, Herbertsville and Osbornville HVAC construction accounts.

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