Long Range Facilities Planning

This section develops and maintains District design standards and specifications for the New Construction and Existing Facilities Branches, and develops comprehensive master plans for schools throughout the District.

Facilities Records Management Unit

This unit calculates and maintains square footage and area records for all school facilities and administrative offices throughout the District, and maintains the spatial data for all facilities in the Asset and Work Order Management System (Maximo).

Design Standards and Technical Specifications Unit

This unit develops and maintains District design standards and specifications for the New Construction and Existing Facilities Branches. The Standards Unit is responsible for publishing the official School Design Guide, which contains general and technical design principles, and Educational Specifications, which contains recommended standard space configurations for primary and secondary schools. The Standards Unit also develops and maintains Standard Technical Drawings, oversees the Facilities Services Division.s implementation of the criteria for the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS), and provides support for the development of School Programs for the various grade levels and special Facilities programs.

Additionally, the Standards Unit develops and maintains the technical Guide Construction Specifications and supports internal and external architectural services to optimize design, construction, and cost savings efforts.

Academic Master Planning Unit

Academic Master Planning is a process of looking forward with the vision for our schools and establishing a strategy for realizing these goals. This Unit is responsible for establishing a long range vision that addresses the educational goals and facilities needs for our schools. By minimizing a piecemeal approach to campus planning, the District will achieve a more comprehensive, long-term impact on our school campuses.

This unit conducts comprehensive evaluations of existing school campuses to include the identification of security issues, pedestrian circulation patterns, core facility resources, instructional methodologies, and facility infrastructure. In collaboration with each Local District and their stakeholders, they develop a prioritization strategy based on a school.s needs that are in line with the District.s goals. This methodology brings the master planning effort to a local level and allows available resources to be equitably distributed.

By comparing the current condition of a school to a model of what we want our schools to become, planning efforts will be focused on generating a facilities response that is consistent with the established goals for the school. The process will include a methodology for achieving the established goals which will include a resource allocation strategy, timelines, and phasing plan.