Articles That Answer FAQs
Approval of Preliminary Plans for Project Concept and Scope
- Approval of Preliminary Plans
- Capital Construction Projects: Eligibility for Building Aid
- 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
- Final Submission Forms Workbook
- Fuel Tank Projects
- Highway Letter
- Oil Spills - Leaking Tanks - DEC Guidelines
- Performance and Payment Bonds on Public Work
- Playground Installations
- Prevailing Wage Rates
- Separation of Construction Sites From Occupied Areas
- Separation of Construction Sites From Occupied Buildings
Bidding, Building Permits, and Construction Phase of a Project
- Bidding Cost Control
- Bidding Capital Construction Projects
- Capital Construction Bids
- Change Orders
- Competitive Bidding - Or Equal
- New Change Order Process
Construction Articles
- NY-CHPS Version 1.0 High-Performance Schools Guidelines
- Boiler Room Doors – Dol Variance – (To Swing Into Boiler Room)
- Clarification of the 155 Lead Requirements
- Important Access Control / Electric Lock Advisory
- Manufactured Classroom Toilet Policy
- Press Boxes
- Procedures for Requesting and Storing Regents Examinations
- Room Sizes for Special Education Classrooms
- Storage of Regent's Examinations
- Use of Truck Shipping Containers
- Vaults for storing Examination Materials
Energy Articles
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 Copper Rule
- Lead and Indoor Rifle Ranges
- Mold Problems
- Public Information - What Are the Rights?
- Sanitary Law
- Tobacco
- Underground Fuel Storage Tanks
- Waste Disposal
Emergencies
- Bomb Threats are a Felony
- Consumer Product Safety Commission Releases Test Results on Crayons
- Crayons & Asbestos
- 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
Final Building Project Reports and Revised Reports
- Avoid Delays in Payment of Building Aid
- Building Aid - Revision of Financial Information
- Final Building Project Report
- Final Building Project Report Hints
Fire Safety, Annual Fire Inspections, and Certificates of Occupancy
- 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 Annunciator Panels
- Fire Safety in School Buildings
- Instruction in Arson and Fire Prevention
- Procedures for Filing a Fire Inspection Report
Mechanical Articles
- Electric Booster Water Heaters
- Electrically Powered Movable Partitions
- Electrically Powered Partition Warning Signs Required
- Injection Wells
- Metal Halide Lamps
- SED Requirements for Emergency Lighting for Educational (E) Occupancies
- Ventilation Standards
Operation and Maintenance Articles
- Bleacher Inspections
- Recycling Solid Wastes
- Ice and Snow Load Warning
- Structural Inspections & Fire Inspection
Project Start-Up and Preliminary Planning
- Authorizing Capital Construction
- Debt Limit
- Definitions Of Capital Construction Projects
- Facilities Needs Assessment Summary
- Federal Low and Zero-Interest Bonds for School Construction
- Financing School Construction
- Instructional Space Review Form
- Letter of Intent for Capital Construction Projects
- Long-Range Plan, Maintenance & Repair
- Notification of Building Project and Form SA-4
- Obtaining Professional Services
- Organizational Pattern
- Policy Memos
- Preliminary Submissions
- Projecting Student Enrollments - Long-Range Plans
- Reference Guide To Capital Construction - Overview
- Regional Cost Factors
- Reserve Funds
- Resources to Help Schools Save Energy
- School Site Variance
- SED Numbers and What They Mean
- The Project Management System
- When is a Building Permit Required?
Rescue Aid and 155 Regulations
- Integrated Pest Management
- 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
