Articles That Answer Frequently Asked Questions
PROJECT START-UP AND PRELIMINARY PLANNING
- Authorizing Capital Construction
- Debt
Limit
(4KB) - Definitions Of Capital Construction Projects
- The Project Management System
- Letter of Intent for Capital Construction Projects
- Long-Range Plan, Maintenance & Repair
- Facilities
Needs Assessment Summary (5KB)
- Federal Low and Zero Interest Bonds for School Construction
- Financing Construction
- Obtaining Professional Services
- Organizational Pattern
- Projecting Student Enrollments - Long-Range Plans
- Reference Guide To Capital Construction - Overview
- School Site Variance 5/24/00
RESCUE AID AND 155 REGULATIONS
- Construction Project Cost Index
- Guidelines for Health and Safety Committees
- Health and Safety Committees
- Rebuilding Schools to Uphold Education (RESCUE)
- Rescue Aid Memo
- Rescue Aid Memo Q & A
- State aid Payment Procedures and Local Accounting and Reporting Procedures for RESCUE
APPROVAL OF PRELIMINARY PLANS FOR PROJECT CONCEPT AND SCOPE
- Approval of Preliminary Plans (Revised 03/01)
- Capital Const. Projects: Eligibility for Building Aid
- When is a Building Permit Required?
- School Sites
APPROVAL OF FINAL PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS, SUBMISSION DOCUMENTS & FUNDING
- Approved Bidding Documents
- Capital Construction Projects Funded by Donations or Grants
- Clarification of the Regulations for the reduction of lead hazards in schools
- Fuel Tank Projects
- Highway Letter
- Performance and Payment Bonds on Public Work
- Oil Spills - Leaking Tanks - DEC Guidelines
- Prevailing Wage Rates
- Playground Installations
- Separation of Construction Sites From Occupied Areas
- Separation of Construction from Occupied buildings
BIDDING, BUILDING PERMITS, AND CONSTRUCTION PHASE OF A PROJECT
- Bidding Cost Control
- Competitive Bidding - Or Equal
- Bidding Capital Construction Projects
- Capital Construction Bids
- New Change Order Process Alert
- Change Orders Revised 4/4//02
FINAL BUILDING PROJECT REPORTS AND REVISED REPORTS
- Final Building Project Report
- Final Building Project Report Hints
- Building Aid - Revision of Financial Information
- Avoid Delays in Payment of Building Aid
- NY-CHPS
Version 1.0 High
Performance Schools Guidelines
(1,991KB)
03/24/06 - Boiler
Room Doors - DOL Variance - (to
swing into boiler room) (30KB)
posted 12/12/02
- Important Access Control / Electric Lock Advisory
- Vaults for storing Examination Materials
- Procedures
for Requesting and Storing Regents Examinations 7 /31/07
- Room Sizes for Special Education Classrooms
- Manufactured Classroom Toilet Policy
- Storage of Regent's Examinations
- Use of Truck Shipping Containers 4/5/04
- Press Boxes
- Clarification of the 155 Lead Requirements
- When is a Building Permit Required?
- SED Requirements for Emergency Lighting for Educational (E) Occupancies 1/9/06
- Boiler Room Doors - DOL Variance (to swing into boiler room) posted 12/12/02
- Important Access Control / Electric Lock Advisory 9/27/02
- Electric Booster Water Heaters
- Electrically Powered Movable Partitions
- Electrically Powered Partition Warning Signs Required
- Ventilation Standards
- Injection Wells
- Metal Halide Lamps
FIRE SAFETY, ANNUAL FIRE INSPECTIONS AND CERTIFICATES OF OCCUPANCY
- 2001 Asbestos Reinspection 6/13/00
- Certificate of Occupancy
- Decorating for the Holiday Season
- Emergency Evacuation of Non-ambulatory Disabled Individuals
- Fire Alarms, The Fire Department, and Building Jurisdiction
- Fire Alarm Enunciator Panels
- Fire Safety in School Buildings
- Instruction in Arson and Fire Prevention
- Procedures for Filing a Fire Inspection Report
PROJECT REVIEW RELATED ARTICLES
- SED Numbers and what they mean
- Policy Memos
- Definitions Of Capital Construction Projects
- The Project Management System
- Financing Construction
EMERGENCIES
- Bomb Threats are a Felony
- Crayons & Asbestos
- Consumer Product Safety Commission Releases Test Results on Crayons
- Outline of the Comprehensive Public School Building Safety Program
- Planning a Field Trip
- Revised Posting Procedures-Emergency Evacuation Routes
- Schools as Emergency Shelters
- Schools Emergency Management Information and Drills
- Thunderstorm Safety and Outdoor Events
ENVIRONMENTAL / OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH ARTICLES
- Annual AHERA Notification
- AHERA Definition of School Buildings That Must Be Inspected
- AHERA Surveillance Requirement
- AHERA Warning Labels
- Approved Laboratories for Testing Asbestos
- Controlling Outdoor Sources of Indoor Air Pollution
- Fluorescent Lamps Are Hazardous Waste
- Have All Your School Buildings Been Inspected for Asbestos?
- Lead
and Indoor Rifle Ranges (10KB)
- Lead and Copper Rule
- Mold Problems 3/26/02
- Public Information - What Are the Rights?
- Respirators
- Sanitary Law 9/12/00
- Tobacco
- Underground Fuel Storage Tanks
- Waste Disposal
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ARTICLES
Last Updated:
June 8, 2009