Pennsylvania Code › Title 22 - EDUCATION › Part XVI - Standards › Chapter 349 - SCHOOL BUILDING STANDARDS › Section 349.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
Architectural area
-The sum of the areas of
				  the several floors, including basements, mezzanine and intermediate floored
				  tiers and penthouses of headroom height (6'-6" minimum), measured from the
				  exterior faces of exterior walls or from the center line of walls separating
				  buildings; covered walkways, open roofed-over areas that are paved shall have
				  the architectural area multiplied by an area factor of 0.50; architectural area
				  does not include such features as pipe trenches, exterior terraces or steps,
				  chimneys and roof overhangs.
Department
-The Department of Education of
				  the Commonwealth.
Existing value
-The proportionate value which
				  an existing structure plus necessary alterations thereto will bear to the
				  reimbursable value of a completed educational facility.
Long term lease
-A lease of at least 5 years
				  but not more than 40 years.
Maximum building construction cost
-Includes
				  general construction, heating and ventilating, plumbing, electrical, other
				  structural expense, fixtures and equipment, and architectural and engineering
				  fees on these items; the maximum building construction cost does not include
				  rough grading, necessary grouting or shoring, excavation outside the building
				  perimeter, special foundations, access roads, costs of utilities to and on the
				  site, curbing and walks required by local ordinance, sewage disposal, site
				  development, site acquisition, and architectural and engineering fees on these
				  items; the cost of fixtures and equipment is not included in the maximum
				  building construction cost for area vocational-technical schools.
Maximum project cost
-Building construction
				  cost, plus all other costs of the project proposal including land, grading,
				  fees, and the like.
Rough grading
-Confined to clearing and
				  grubbing a site of natural growth, fences, surface fieldstone, stumps, and such
				  cut and fill as may be required to meet the established standard finish grades;
				  rough grading shall not include such items as finished roadways and walks,
				  demolition of buildings, strip mining of coal, mining of any minerals,
				  supporting of mine roofs to prevent subsidence, or similar operations.
Scheduled area
-Includes instructional spaces
				  such as classrooms, laboratories, planetaria, observatories, student project
				  rooms, student activity rooms, seminar rooms, shops, band and chorus stations,
				  physical education stations and other areas which accommodate direct student
				  instruction; also includes general use areas such as libraries, instructional
				  materials centers, locker and shower rooms, team rooms, instructors' offices,
				  multi-purpose rooms, cafeterias-including kitchen and storage,
				  auditoriums-including stage, health and first-aid rooms, and faculty rooms;
				  administrative office suites-including conference rooms-are also included;
				  service areas, such as general storage, toilet rooms, custodian rooms,
				  maintenance areas, utilities areas are not included; circulation areas such as
				  hallways and stairways are not included.
Usable acreage
-Acreage which has or which
				  can reasonably be prepared to have slopes and gradients which will accommodate
				  the educational, structural, operational, aesthetic and community purposes for
				  which a school site is acquired.