What gets shut down first
Triage order in an occupied office: electrical to affected zones, then IT and server spaces, then elevators if shafts are in the water path. Data infrastructure is the one asset where minutes change the loss by orders of magnitude, so it leads the checklist every time.
The plenum cascade
Water travels through ceiling plenums and riser penetrations in ways floor plans do not show. The crew traces the path with moisture meters and thermal imaging before opening anything, so demolition follows the water instead of guessing at it — the difference between replacing ceiling tiles and replacing floors of drywall.
The Monday-morning discovery
A pipe that fails Friday night runs all weekend. Weekend-discovered losses routinely cost multiples of a caught-immediately event, which is the argument for a line that answers at 2am Saturday exactly like 2pm Tuesday. Ours does.
Questions office teams ask
What should be shut down first in office water damage?
Power to affected zones, then server and network rooms, then elevators in the water path. Building engineering and the responding crew coordinate the sequence in the first minutes of the call.
Does commercial insurance cover water-damaged computers and servers?
Typically under business personal property or specific electronics/EDP coverage — and 'it still powers on' is not 'it is fine.' Corrosion assessment belongs in the claim before equipment quietly fails weeks later.