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“The aim of architecture is to elucidate the objectification of the will
at the lowest grade of its visibility and to present it in the most definite way,
to make the dumb will speak perceptibly, to bring the inaudible
audibly and visibly before our eyes.”
— Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
Johann Christoph Friedrich Wilhelm Schopenhauer
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Stairway Lighting
Designing illumination for vertical ingress and egress paths requires reconciliation of competing requirements of safety economy:
Consistent and Adequate Lighting: Shadows and dark spots should be minimized to prevent trips and falls.
Light Direction and Glare: Light fixtures should be positioned to avoid creating excessive contrast between steps.
Staircase Configuration: Staircases come in various shapes, sizes, and configurations, such as straight, curved, or spiral.
Light Distribution: Lighting should adequately cover the entire stair tread and riser area to provide clear visibility and depth perception.
Energy Efficiency: Specifying energy-efficient light sources such as light emitting diodes and lighting controls such as motion sensors or timers.
Maintenance and Durability: Scaffolding safety should be a peak consideration.
Some of the foregoing challenges can be resolved with the use of handrail illumination but are accompanied by additional electrical wiring requirements.
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The parent standard in the United States for designing and building facilities for accessibility is ANSI/A117.1 Standard for Accessible and Usable Buildings and Facilities developed by the International Code Council. During 2023 this title will be revised but until then he 2017 release is the stabilized edition:
FREE ACCESS (ICC DIGITAL CODE PLATFORM)
Many A117.1 concepts require coordination with the International Building Code. We provide an example regarding stairway illumination below:
BCAC General 5 – IBC A117.1 Coordination 11-20-1027 File 16-124
We walked through this earlier in 2020. It is noteworthy because the proposed safety concepts will likely require harmonization with NFPA and IEEE standards bibliography. Committees usually take it upon themselves to get that right but getting it right means all committees need to work bi-directionally; action that is limited by time resources of volunteers.
Technical specifics in meeting the US Department of Justice requirements for accessibility is close coupled with A117 since it is incorporated by reference into federal law. 2021/2022 Code Development Cycle has been completed and another cycle has begun:
2024/2025/2026 ICC CODE DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE
ICC (ASC A117) CONSENSUS COMMITTEE ON A117.1 04-27-2023 Minutes 31
Since the ICC catalog cuts across many disciplines we touch most titles almost every day at 15:00 UTC; open to everyone with the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Issue: [13-36] and [16-124]
Category: Architectural, Risk Management
Colleagues: Richard Robben
FYI: Errata to 2017 Edition:
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“Gezicht op Delf” 1660 Johannes Vermeer
Fontys Hogescholen spotlights 10 student architecture and urbanism projects
Methods of Building Measurement
“The Ideal City” 1480 Giuliano da Sangallo
Inspired by Lord Kelvin’s “If you can not measure it, you can not improve it” and Peter Drucker’s adage “If you can’t measure it, You can’t improve it” and W. Edwards Deming’s counter-argument — “It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth.” we present the standards catalog of the Building Owner’s Management Association:
BOMA Area Measurement Standards Timeline 1915-2021
At the moment all titles in this catalog seem to be stabilized although a great deal of economic activity in the commercial real estate market involves adjustment to the circumstances of the pandemic. Largely because a sizeable portion of square footage in every school district, college, university and university-affiliated healthcare research and clinical delivery system derives at least part of its funding from governments at all levels there are workgroups devoted to measuring square footage and documenting its use. For example:
Space Management: University of Oklahoma
Space Management: Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Space Management Policy: University at Buffalo
Getting square-footage right is essential for securing an organization’s sustainability and “green” claims for example. The links in previous posts provide for information about future public consultations.
We maintain the BOMA catalog on the agenda of our Space Planning, Hammurabi and Architectural colloquia, hosted 6 to 8 times annually. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting, open to everyone.
Posted March 20, 2021
We drill into the specifics commonly found in education communities: sub-lease of space to private industry in publicly-owned facilities. The Building Owners and Managers Association International is an ANSI-accredited consensus standard developer and revised its standard — BOMA Z65.5 Retail Properties: Standard Method of Measurement. Measuring the area of a retail building can quickly become complex when variables must be considered such as ancillary space, mezzanines and storefront lease lines. Many large research universities have long since leased space within many of their building envelopes for private industry to service their communities — student unions, hospitals, dormitories and athletic venues, for example. From the project prospectus:
Z65.5 is intended exclusively for retail properties and their associated structures and may be applied to single-tenant, multi-tenant or multi-building configurations. It features a single method of measurement, with two levels of measurement data, known as Partial Measurement and Overall Measurement for retail properties. It does not measure sidewalks, surface parking, drainage structures, or other ancillary site improvements. This standard is chiefly designed to generate Gross Leasable Area figures, a key metric in retail leasing; however, it also produces area figures which may be of interest to those examining space utilization, valuation, benchmarking, and the allocation of building expenses to various cost centers. The scope of this standard is not intended to be submitted for consideration as an ISO, IEC, or ISO/IEC JTC-1 standard.
Public consultation is open until February 8th.
You may obtain an electronic copy from: floorstandards@boma.org. Send comments (with optional copy to psa@ansi.org) to: floorstandards@boma.org. We encourage user-interest subject matter experts in education facility management to participate directly in the BOMA standards development process by communicating directly with Tanner Johnson at BOMA (tjohnston@boma.org) or 202-326-6357 for more information.
We keep the BOMA catalog on the standing agenda of our colloquia devoted to building construction best practice. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [14-117]
Category: Architectural, Facility Asset Management
Colleagues: Jack Janveja, Richard Robben
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Posted February, 20 2020
The Building Owners and Managers Association International (BOMA) is an ANSI-accredited consensus standard developer. BOMA has initiated the process of revising its real property measurement standard — BOMA Z65.2 For Industrial Buildings: Standard Methods of Measurement. The primary objectives of this standard are:
– To promote an unambiguous framework for determining the areas of Industrial Buildings with a strong focus on Rentable Area calculations;
– To facilitate transparency and clear communication of building measurement concepts among all participants in the commercial real estate
industry;
– To allow a comparison of values on the basis of a clearly understood and generally agreed upon method of measurement; and
– To align concepts and measurement methodologies with the International Property Measurement Standards: Industrial Buildings (January 2018)
document.
Comments due March 15th
Click here to view these changes in full (Page 2)
Send comments (with optional copy to psa@ansi.org) to: tjohnston@boma.org
Standards Michigan follows, but d0es not advocate in most of the BOMA standards suite for the following reasons:
- Educational facility occupancies are fairly well accounted for in existing federal and state regulations
- Advocacy in energy-related best practice titles are a better use of resources at the moment.
We encourage user-interest subject matter experts in education facility management to participate directly in the BOMA standards development process by communicating directly with Tanner Johnson at BOMA (tjohnston@boma.org) or 202-326-6357 for more information.
We maintain the entire BOMA suite on our periodic Model Building Code colloquia. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [15-200]
Category: Architectural, Space Plaaning, Facility Asset Management
Colleagues: Jack Janveja, Richard Robben
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Facilities Information Management
Guideline for Square Footage Requirements for Educational Facilities
Guide to School Site Analysis and Development
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Bosjes Chapel Structural Analysis
Set within a vineyard the chapel emulates the silhouette of surrounding mountain ranges; mimicking the historic Cape Dutch gables dotting the rural landscapes of the Western Cape.
Constructed from a slim concrete cast shell, the roof supports itself as each undulation dramatically falls to meet the ground. Where each wave of the roof structure rises to a peak, expanses of glazing adjoined centrally by a crucifix adorn the façade.
South African Bureau of Standards
Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures
ARCHITECTURE, BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING
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School Security Concepts
Updated November 21, 2024
School, college and university security best practice literature draws from an expanding code and standards catalog of hundreds of non-profit membership and trade associations; each intended to have their titles incorporated by reference into public safety legislation. One need only examine the transcripts of the most recent code-making processes of the International Code Council using the search terms — school, security, doors, student, egress, lock; for example.
2024 Group A Proposed Changes to the I-Codes
2022 GROUP B PROPOSED CHANGES: COMPLETE MONOGRAPH MARCH/APRIL 2022 (1971 pages)
The updated catalog revision schedule has been released by the International Code Council:
2024/2025/2026 ICC CODE DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE
Today we will scan relevant concepts — some that succeeded in adoption, some that failed, some that need to be added to the discussion — in order to prepare proposals of our own. Public input on the 2024 Group A Codes will be received by the ICC cdpACCESS facility until January 8, 2024.
We maintain nearly every title in the International Code Council catalog in any of our daily colloquia. Today at 15:00 UTC we will examine as many campus security concepts as time permits; setting up a breakout session as necessary. Open to everyone. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
August 27, 2018
The next step in the ICC Group A Code Development Process is the release of the Public Comment Agenda on August 31st. We will sort through that monograph and begin reaching out to experts* who are permitted to speak at the ICC Fall Committee Action Hearings October 24-31, 2018 in Richmond Virginia. See: Complete 2018 Group A Schedule.
We encourage our colleagues in the Richmond, Virginia area to register and attend those hearings.
As the Group A cycle draws to a close we are beginning to prepare public input for the next batch of ICC consensus documents. Public input for the Group B Codes — the International Energy Conservation Code among them — is January 7, 2019. We have scheduled our first teleconference on the Group B codes for November 9th, 11:00 AM
July 11, 2018
A number of candidate code changes regarding ingress and egress paths in education facilities were debated during April’s International Code Council Spring Committee Action Hearings in Columbus, Ohio. These have been identified in our previous post and are identified below. Search the Complete Monograph to see the proposal detail.
IBC Proposal E49-18 | New definition of “Control Vestibule”
IBC Proposal E48-18 | Locking arrangements in educational occupancies (PDF Page 141)
IFC F37-18 | Fire safety, evacuation and lockdown plans | (PDF Page 1086)
IFC F38-18 | Exterior door numbering | (Page 1087)
Keep in mind that the placement of educational facility safety concepts –whether a concept belongs in the fire code or the building code or both — is an ongoing debate among building safety professionals generally. Regretfully, school security is a “growth opportunity” and many non-profit trade associations are responding to the challenge and the opportunity. We keep track of the competition among them at this link: School Security Concepts.
The public has an opportunity to respond to the formal balloting on Committee Actions with the release of the document linked below:
2018 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ACTION HEARINGS ON THE 2018 EDITIONS OF THE GROUP A INTERNATIONAL CODES
Comments are due July 16th. Additionally, public comment is possible at the Fall Committee Action Hearings. The results of the Group A Hearings will be revisited during the Group A Public Comment Hearings, October 24-31, 2018 in Richmond Virginia. See: Complete 2018 Group A Schedule.
We keep the entire ICC suite on the standing agenda of our weekly Open Door Teleconference — every Wednesday, 11 AM Eastern Time. Click here to log in.
Issue: [Various]
Category: Architectural, Facility Asset Management, Space Planning
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben
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