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6920P - Construction Design

Policy: 6920P
Section: 6000 - Management Support

Title: Construction Design

Status: Active

Adopted: January 13, 2025

Procedure - Construction Design

Educational Specifications
Educational specifications are written after consultation with appropriate staff, consultants and community members. The content of a set of educational specifications may include all or part of the following items:

  1. A statement of the educational philosophy as it pertains to the specific construction project;
  2. Community and School Characteristics:
    The plan of organization and expected enrollments of the school:
    1. Grade levels; and Maximum expected enrollments with trends and projections, if necessary.
    2. The construction plan for the facility whether it is to be a new facility, an addition, or a phased program leading to a complete facility;
    3. Special services to be provided:
      1. Guidance programs;
      2. Social work programs;
      3. Provisions for exceptional children; and
      4. Other services;
    4. The special provisions needed for community use:
      1. Cooperative park/school arrangement;
      2. Parent-teacher associations;
      3. Community athletic programs; and
      4. Other provisions;
    5. The extent that adults will use this facility;
    6. The extent to which students will be transported and the facilities that must be included to handle this service adequately;
    7. The cafeteria services to be provided and the maximum number of individuals likely to be served;
    8. The policy regarding multiple use of spaces; and
    9. Other pertinent data relating to the project;
  3. Site Characteristics - site considerations necessary for this project, including:
    Site size and location defined; and
    Recommended building orientation; service drives; parking requirements for staff, students, and public; sidewalk and other approaches; outside lighting;
  4. Requirements of the Physical Plant:
    1. Instructional functions and spaces required. A statement of instructional purposes is to precede the description of each area:
      1. Number of spaces required by function; and
      2. The relationships of these spaces;
    2. The non-instructional spaces required. Each space is to be described by function and spaces requirements;
    3. Relationships of spaces required:
      1. Inter-relationship between instructional areas;
      2. Relationship between instructional and non-instructional spaces; and
      3. Relationship of spaces to site;
    4. Environmental factors should be described in terms of educational relationships or concerns; and
  5. Additional information or comments as necessary to further interpret and clarify the educational program.
     

Adopted: 01.13.2025

Last Revised:

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