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Mechanical Rooms
- Access from exterior door if possible, or from corridor spaces to not interrupt learning
- Accommodates various systems such as boilers, pumps, storage tanks, domestic hot water systems, air conditioning equipment, air handling equipment and control panels
- Size of space and door(s), width determined by size of equipment, allowing clear space to maintain or repair all equipment or system components, such as filters, tubes or coils or belts
- Provide exterior doors, if possible, sized to accommodate replacement of equipment located withinÂ
- Equipment should be floor mounted
- If equipment is ceiling mounted, provide maintenance platform with standing headroom and permanent ladder for access
Electrical Rooms
- May contain main electrical switch gear, transformers, and electrical panels
- Clear space maintained for accessing equipment
MDF Room
- Central junction of all communications connections: data lines, phone lines, fiber optic lines, etc.
- Location and access must be secure; position in an interior space near media and/or administration.
- Door should be sized to accommodate replacement of equipment located within the room
- Plan for conduit in vertical infrastructure between floors. Consider parameters of fiber optic cabling.
- Provide for “security access only”.
- Provide space to work on, install or replace equipment
Custodial Closets
- Provide ventilation, mop sink, shelving, lockable door
- Hold custodial cart
- Number and/or Locations:
- One closet at every group restroom
- Minimum of one per building and minimum one per floor
- Centralized
- Storage of cleaning and custodial supplies; storage of custodial cart
- Preferred connection to large group spaces or along corridors in academic wings
- At least one per floor if not multiple, as dictated by building’s overall square footage
- Mop sink and floor drain
- Space should be large enough & configured to easily store cart, upright vacuum, and large trashcan; this is in addition to fixed shelving and mop sink
Mechanical Rooms
- Access from exterior door if possible, or from corridor spaces to not interrupt learning
- Accommodates various systems such as boilers, pumps, storage tanks, domestic hot water systems, air conditioning equipment, air handling equipment and control panels
- Size of space and door(s), width determined by size of equipment, allowing clear space to maintain or repair all equipment or system components, such as filters, tubes or coils or belts
- Provide exterior doors, if possible, sized to accommodate replacement of equipment located withinÂ
- Equipment should be floor mounted
- If equipment is ceiling mounted, provide maintenance platform with standing headroom and permanent ladder for access
Electrical Rooms
- May contain main electrical switch gear, transformers, and electrical panels
- Clear space maintained for accessing equipment
MDF Room
- Central junction of all communications connections: data lines, phone lines, fiber optic lines, etc.
- Location and access must be secure; position in an interior space near media and/or administration.
- Door should be sized to accommodate replacement of equipment located within the room
- Plan for conduit in vertical infrastructure between floors. Consider parameters of fiber optic cabling.
- Provide for “security access only”.
- Provide space to work on, install or replace equipment
Custodial Closets
- Provide ventilation, mop sink, shelving, lockable door
- Hold custodial cart
- Number and/or Locations:
- One closet at every group restroom
- Minimum of one per building and minimum one per floor
- Centralized
- Storage of cleaning and custodial supplies; storage of custodial cart
- Preferred connection to large group spaces or along corridors in academic wings
- At least one per floor if not multiple, as dictated by building’s overall square footage
- Mop sink and floor drain
- Space should be large enough & configured to easily store cart, upright vacuum, and large trashcan; this is in addition to fixed shelving and mop sink
