Committee on Architecture for Education

Amy, I'm a board member with the NSSA (NSSA.CC) and chair the Design Practices Committee. I'd be happy to help with any questions on storm shelters, ICC 500, and IBC 423. Thank you, Daniel read more

We have seen this quite a bit in our area, with good cause for enforcement. Renovations are not required when already an educational use, but new construction is per the code adaption here. FWIW I would read more

Hello! I am working with a local Charter School applicant to vet spaces for a new K-8 school in our local community. We're grappling with the requirement (423.4) for a storm shelter in all new K-12 schools. read more

The NYCSCA has a wealth of resources and design standards accessible to the public to help design NYC public schools. Many of the Design Requirements define parameters for how to design safe lobbies with read more

Thank you for sharing this resource and to the authors for putting it forward! I missed the seminar on Thursday - looking forward to the on-demand version coming. Thanks again for sharing. ------------------------------ read more