Articles That Answer Frequently Asked Questions
APPROVAL OF PRELIMINARY PLANS FOR PROJECT CONCEPT AND SCOPE
- Approval of Preliminary Plans (Revised 03/01)
- Capital Const. 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
- 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 from Occupied buildings
BIDDING, BUILDING PERMITS, AND CONSTRUCTION PHASE OF A PROJECT
- Bidding Cost Control
- Bidding Capital Construction Projects
- Capital Construction Bids
- Change Orders Revised 4/4//02
- Competitive Bidding - Or Equal
- New Change Order Process Alert
- NY-CHPS Version 1.0 High Performance Schools Guidelines
(1.94MB) 05/19/10 - Boiler Room Doors - DOL Variance - (to swing into boiler room)
(30KB) posted 12/12/02 - Clarification of the 155 Lead Requirements
- Important Access Control / Electric Lock Advisory 09/27/02
- Manufactured Classroom Toilet Policy
- Press Boxes
- Procedures for Requesting and Storing Regents Examinations 07/31/07
- Room Sizes for Special Education Classrooms
- Storage of Regent's Examinations
- Use of Truck Shipping Containers 04/05/04
- Vaults for storing Examination Materials
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 (10KB)
- Mold Problems 03/26/02
- Public Information - What Are the Rights?
- Sanitary Law 9/12/00
- 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 Enunciator Panels
- Fire Safety in School Buildings
- Instruction in Arson and Fire Prevention
- Procedures for Filing a Fire Inspection Report
- 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 01/09/06
- 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 (4KB)
- Definitions Of Capital Construction Projects
- Facilities
Needs Assessment Summary (5KB)
- Federal Low and Zero Interest Bonds for School Construction
- Financing Construction
- Letter of Intent for Capital Construction Projects
- Long-Range Plan, Maintenance & Repair
- Obtaining Professional Services
- Organizational Pattern
- Policy Memos
- Projecting Student Enrollments - Long-Range Plans
- Reference Guide To Capital Construction - Overview
- School Site Variance 5/24/00
- SED Numbers and what they mean
- The Project Management System
- When is a Building Permit Required?
RESCUE AID AND 155 REGULATIONS
- Integrated Pest Management (2/13/12)
- Construction Project Cost Index
- Guidelines for Health and Safety Committees
- Health and Safety Committees
- Rebuilding
Schools to Uphold Education (RESCUE) (64KB)
- Rescue Aid Memo
- Rescue Aid Memo Q & A
- State aid Payment Procedures and Local Accounting and Reporting Procedures for RESCUE
Last Updated:
September 5, 2017