Any sports hall suite shall include changing facilities with showers for half a year group with equal and separate facilities for boys and girls in schools, located for easy access to internal and external sports spaces. There shall also be accessible/ staff changing rooms, storage and toilets. Any sports hall shall be designed to allow examinations as well as sporting activities to take place, with the internal environment designed to cater for these different activities. The sports facilities shall be designed to be accessed and used safely and easily by members of the community outside the school day. The Contractor shall design storage in PE and sport areas to ensure that storage adjacent to the sports hall is easily accessible for storing large items of equipment. Administration Suite Any Whole School Project will have an administration suite including accommodation for administration staff and some senior management, such as a general office and head teacher’s office, centrally located yet close to the main entrance of the School and the reception area. Other staff offices shall be located locally in teaching suites, as specified in the School-specific SoA or SSB. Any administration suite in a New Building or Remodelled Area shall include the general office and other spaces required in the School-specific SoA for this suite. The main entrance used by visitors shall provide a secure entry sequence which meets the following requirements. The external doors lead into the entrance/ reception area which accommodates a waiting area and space to access the reception desk, as well as the circulation route from the external doors to the internal doors leading into the School. The interview room is directly accessible from the entrance/ reception area. The entrance/ reception area is adjacent to the general office and linked by a reception desk staffed from within the office area but accessible to visitors to sign in, via a secure
These aspects are further broken down into discrete ‘items’ which constitute each aspect. For example ‘Local Technology – Core’ includes the following items. Servers and Firewalls Storage User devices Software Peripherals Technical decant Each ‘item’ is a single system, a type of equipment or a service which is assigned to one or more party with regard to responsibility. Annex 4: ‘The ICT Responsibility Matrix’ sets out six ‘responsibilities’ for each item. Each responsibility, where possible, is allocated to a single party. Where a party is shown as owning a responsibility for an item this includes all costs associated with the delivery of that responsibility. Definitions of Responsibility The parties identified to accept responsibility are as follows: Contractor School – or related party e.g. Employer, Local Authority, School or ICT supplier The responsibilities allocated within the matrix are set out below. Specify Determine the technical specification of the solution to meet the stated requirements Supply Procure the equipment and services to provide the solution Install Install and commission the equipment
Communications Technology (ICT) server rooms and hub rooms within schools. The Contractor shall implement environmental control to provide stable conditions (e.g. Air-conditioning) for ICT equipment as required. If a mechanical ventilation system is used this shall be provided with filtration to prevent dust ingress. Cooling units shall be sized on the heat loads provided by the manufacturers of the equipment to be installed. The Contractor shall aim to minimise the ventilation and cooling required, for example by locating server rooms on the north façade or in areas of the building where there are lower thermal gains and on an outside wall. A ventilation opening to outside or locally controlled extract fan shall be provided to allow for ventilation for occupancy and battery failure. This shall allow for ICT staff who are servicing equipment in the server room; and ventilation required by UPS systems for the safe operation of the batteries to allow for the release of inflammable or corrosive gases. Non-gassing valve regulated batteries are required for the UPS and do not off-gas except under fault conditions. The Contractor shall ensure air conditioning units are positioned for easy maintenance and units and their pipework shall not be located above equipment cabinets in case of leakage. The condensate should be taken to the nearest drain outside the room. The contractor should demonstrate how the position of the environmental control systems (e.g. air conditioning unit) supports the cooling strategy of the server cabinets. The server room and hub room power supply shall be provided with a See Annex 2H: ‘Energy’. Sprinkler Systems Sprinkler system requirements, if required, are included in Annex 2G: ‘Electrical Services, Communications, Fire and Security Systems’. Server Room and Hub Room Furniture The Contractor shall provide sufficient server racks of appropriate dimensions to house the servers that form part of the ICT. Racking design