2NE0084 Exh B ASR.pdf

Design Requirements

The Office of the Federal Public Defender provides counsel to persons charged with federal criminal offenses who are financially unable to obtain adequate private representation. Federal defender offices should be located outside the courthouse, or other federal buildings housing law enforcement agencies.

Reception Counter/Screening

A reception counter is provided with counter-to-ceiling break-resistant glazing. For the counter, a durable work surface 26-30 inches deep at stand-up height with a divider to the floor below is recommneded. It is recommended that the counter extend 12 inches on the public side of the partition. The counter should accommodate a document-sized deal tray transaction opening for each station provided. In leased locations where weapons screening is not performed at the main entrance of the building, we will work with the USMS to provide bullet-resistant glazing and ballistic wall surround.

Secure LAN Equipment Rooms

Computer and LAN equipment rooms should be equipped with a secure card reader, or keypad to limit entrance to authorized personnel. Any means of access through the ceiling plenum, pipe chase, or other similar spaces should be eliminated. These rooms should be provided with a supplemental cooling system to provide proper air-conditioning while the main building mechanical systems are shut down.

Acoustics

All conference rooms and offices should be acoustically separate from adjacent areas.

Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC)

HVAC and electrical systems, including lighting, should economically accommodate early morning and late evening hours. Mechanical and electrical systems should meet current and future needs, including space and power for the additional computer room air-conditioning (CRAC) units required for equipment expansion.

Ceiling Height

The ceiling is a designed surface. It may be uniformly flat, or it may have two or more planes and include elements such as soffits, perimeter coves, recesses, and reveals as required to integrate HVAC and lighting into a harmonious design. An adjustment of a ceiling surface may also occur where it meets an exterior curtain wall to accommodate different equipment. In situations where there are several different surfaces at different heights above the finished floor, there may be different ways of determining which one is the dominant plane. Ceiling heights should be measured from the finished floor to the dominant surface that either covers the most amount of ceiling square footage, or the surface that defines the overall character of the ceiling design.

Tenant improvements

Tenant improvements are the finishes and fixtures that typically take a space from the shell condition to a finished, usable condition. The tenant improvement allowance is the funding source provided by the

General Services Administration (GSA) that enables the space to be built out to meet the court’s specific requirements. There are two components in the tenant improvement allowance: general and

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Lessor: ________ Government: ________ customization. The general tenant improvement allowance takes the unfinished shell to the standard

GSA level of finish for office space. The customization allowance provides funding to meet court specific requirements.

Tenant Improvements – Interior Finishes

The finishes should meet the Judiciary’s requirements and references the GSA PBS P-100 finish criteria.

Finish Material Requirements

The selection of finishes for each project should address concerns about the image, construction costs, life-cycle costs, and maintainability of the project budget. While each construction project’s budget should be maintained, life-cycle costs are a priority when selecting project finishes. Life-cycle cost considerations include but are not limited to ease with which materials can be maintained, enhanced durability, and maximizing the long-term appearance retention of products utilized. Limiting the quantity of specialty finishes and being selective in their application will minimize costs.

Acoustic Privacy

It is important that speech from the activity within not be audible in adjacent spaces, and vice versa.

Special attention should be paid at the earliest stages of planning to ensure that noise-producing spaces

(building-systems equipment rooms, restrooms, circulation space, public lobbies, etc.) are not located directly adjacent (vertically or horizontally) to noise-sensitive spaces.

Internal partitions should be of a construction determined to achieve an appropriate level of airborne sound isolation, as measured per the ASTM E-90-99 standard. Impact isolation, to control footfall noise from adjacent spaces, should also be considered.

Noise-sensitive spaces should be protected from external noise ingress, such as road traffic noise, airplanes passing overhead, and pedestrian activity.

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Description

Design Guide Sq Feet

Current plus Immediate hires anticipated

Space for Current plus immediate hires

PRIVATE OFFICES

Attorney Offices:

1 FPD/Executive Director (Main Ofc) 300 1 300

In Main FPD/ExDir office only:

1 Executive Secretary 120 1 120

Reception Area 50 1 50

Branch office only:

Visiting space for FD 150 0 0

1 First Assistant FD 250 1 250 Supervisory & Sr. Lit.AFD(s) 225 0 0 AFD(s) 200 8 1600

Authorized Attys at this location 10

Prof. First Line Supervisor(s) Administrative Officer 180 1 180 Computer Systems Administrator 180 1 180 Chief Investigator 180 0 0 Chief Paralegal 180 0 0

Prof. and Admin. Line Positions:

Investigators 150 3 450 Paralegals 150 3 450 Panel Administrator 150 1 150 Interpreter 150 1 150 Supervisory Legal Secretary 120 0 0 Legal Assistant 100 1 100 Administrative Assistant 150 1 150 Clerical and other staff at open work stations 70 0 0 Legal Interns 70 1 70

Authorized Non-Attys at this location 14

Subtotal -- Authorized Personnel at location 24

Subtotal - Personnel & office space at location 24 4200

General Space Reception/waiting room for clients and public= 105 + [if more than 7 at one time, place additional # in blue below]

15/person, min 105 (7 people)

7 16 345

Counter/screening per staff 45 45

Library:

1. standard bookshelves (3' wide; 7 shelves); add number of bookshelves below* 9 9 81

2. add number for CALR station(s) below 70 2 140

3. add number for seating in library below (limit to # persons using library at one time)

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Design Guide Sq Feet

Current plus Immediate hires anticipated

Space for Current plus immediate hires

25 0 0

Conference room(s):

for up to 20 persons for 21 or more persons;

place number in blue box

400 30 400

Other conference room(s):

number of rooms 2 3 square feet for each add't room 300 300

(If requesting additional conference rooms, add comments regarding use.) 900

Records storage: enter number of cabinets below (calculation same as library storage) number of cabinets below)

50 9 150 1350

Work table: insert number of tables below

6 90 12 1080

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Design Guide Sq Feet

Current plus Immediate hires anticipated

Space for Current plus immediate hires

Common work area: enter number of people ABOVE 7

15 min. 105 24 465

Copier Area 50 low 0 - 80 med 0 - 120 high vol. 2 240

Fax work station 10 1 10

Shared printer 50 2 100

Shredder 25 2 50

Equipment storage:

Large office 150 300 Small office 50 100

Supplies storage:

Large office 100 200 Small office 50 100

Audio/tape listening room 300 300

Secured computer equipment /network room 150 200

Client property storage room 100 150

Returned exhibits storage room 100 150

Galley 8 16 280

Sub-total general space 24 6986

Sub-total all staff and space 24 4200 (validation point---> should be same as cell above) Multiply for circulation space 120% 2237

Current bills show useable space total as:

12316

TOTAL 24 13423

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