Custodial Center 

12.01 General Storage, Repair, Locker Area

• Provide ventilation, mop sink, shelving, lockable door

• Provide work table or counter for equipment repairs

• Most items stored in central custodial storage, then distributed to custodial closets

• Holds stock supplies like light bulbs, paint cans, cleaners, disinfectants, paper goods (toilet paper, paper towels)

• Paper products (toilet accessories) not a standard, but managed by each school; no standard roll size; consult with school

• Preference by FMB for electric hand dryers in lieu of paper towels but must consider noise

• This space often doubles as the custodian’s office, so provide data and power outlets for desk work

• Sizable items can include:

  • Ladders - most schools have one 6' or 10'. Just a few have a 20' ladder, A-framed (not extendable)

  • (Occasionally) Fork Lift - for palettes

  • (Occasionally) Scissor Lift - to change lights or clean high windows

  • (Occasionally) Auto Scrubbers - school uses auto scrubbers, floor machines at times. This typically happens on the school year break, so not every school needs to store these. Some have the ride on scrubbers, and some get the push behind. These can be stored in central, general storage, not necessarily in custodial office or closet. Used most often in cafeteria

• Spare Furniture Storage:

  • Extra classrooms often house extra furniture, or if no extra classrooms, schools get a shipping container, but these have humidity/mold issues.  Difficult to store extra furniture on campus

12.02 Office

• See Typical Spaces, Office

12.03 Tool Room

• Open shelving for larger, expensive items and tools

• Pegboard wall for smaller tools

12.04 Toilet, Single with Shower

• See Typical Spaces, Toilet

Technology

13.01 Main Distribution Frame (MDF)

• Typically, one per school

• Should be 225 SF minimum in a square shape, not wedges or curved walls

• Can have up to 6 racks, clearances around racks (3’ minimum) is critical

• Size of room is consistent between larger and smaller schools

• Need minimum of 3’ door width to accommodate racks

• Rooms need temperature (cooling) and humidity control

13.02 Intermediate Distribution Frame (IDF)

• Full IDF rooms to be 100 SF minimum

• Maximum run between IDFs is 285 feet

• Number of IDFs determined by building / campus layout

• Not necessary to have one on each floor if run is vertical and horizontal but within the maximum distance

• Need minimum of 3’ door width to accommodate racks

• Clearances around racks (3’ minimum) is critical

Gross Square Footage

14.01 Mechanical Rooms

• Access from exterior door if possible, or from corridor spaces to not interrupt learning

• Accommodates various systems such as boilers, pumps, storage tanks, domestic hot water systems, air conditioning equipment, air handling equipment and control panels

• Size of space and door(s) width determined by size of equipment, allowing clear space to maintain, repair, or replace all equipment or system components, such as filters, tubes or coils or belts

• Equipment should be floor mounted

• If equipment is ceiling mounted, provide maintenance platform with standing headroom and permanent ladder for access

14.02 Electrical Rooms

• May contain main electrical switch gear, transformers, and electrical panels

• Clear space maintained for accessing equipment

14.03 Custodial Closets

• • Provide ventilation, mop sink, shelving, lockable door

  • Hold custodial cart

  • Number and/or Locations:

  • One closet at every group restroom

  • Minimum of one per building and minimum one per floor

  • Centralized

  • See Typical Spaces, Custodial Closet

14.04 Interior and Exterior Wall Thicknesses

14.05 Circulation:  Corridors, Stairways, Elevators

• Interior corridors: minimum clear width of 8 feet (should it be 10 at HS?); maximum width to be determined by length of corridor

• Primary circulation stairwells: minimum width of 6 feet (should it be 8 at HS?)

• Stairwells should be designed as exterior stairs, if possible

• Provide daylighting in stairs and corridors, to the extent possible

• Elevator designation and quantity as required by code, interior or exterior

• Centrally locate elevator, not only complying with ADA requirements but universal design

• Main buildings should be connected by covered walkways (refer to Campus-Site Circulation), with corresponding width to interior corridors

14.06 Toilet, Multi-Stall

• Quantity to be verified during design

• Phenolic stall partitions

• Open / no door into interior restrooms, where possible, to allow for acoustic supervision, except where restrooms need to be secured. Confirm in design

• For better supervision, locate sinks outside of multi-stall toilet room, making them shared for both girls and boys toilet rooms

• Consider all user restrooms, open and supervisable, with individual toilet rooms

• Number of toilet fixtures determined by code

• See Typical Spaces, Toilet

14.07 Toilet, Single Student

• ADA code compliant

• Occupancy status in locking mechanism

• Number and/or Locations:

• One closet at every group restroom

• Minimum of one per building and minimum one per floor

• Centralized

• See Typical Spaces, Toilet

14.08 Toilet, Single Staff

• ADA code compliant

• Occupancy status in locking mechanism

• See Typical Spaces, Toilet