Transportation Center

 

Staff Input per Category

• Functionality/Efficiency/Flexibility: Need more maintenance bays, better storage, paint booth, limited space in general
• Collaboration/Connections: Need training room and lot
• Accessibility/Special Programming: None
• Comfort & Well Being: Ventilation upgrades
• Safety & Security: Automatic bus wash, unsecured site, parking, traffic & pedestrian circulation and control, gas tank location, vandalism, tool storage & protection, need dedicated entrance

Conditional Assessment (Overall Suitability: 59%)

Conditional Assessment Summary of Needs

• Site:  Items that scored poorly include size of site, access and traffic flow (safety concerns), overall drainage, main building sign, site directional signage, site perimeter fencing, dumpster area, mechanical courtyard, drives and lots asphalt and walks, fuel island asphalt, soccer field and softball fields and buildings generally scored low overall.
  
• Architectural:  A pre-engineered metal building with CMU uninsulated walls with a small residential type construction office attached.  The metal siding is damaged along the base and asphalt has been poured up to the panels.  Roof appears to be in good condition.  Windows at the office are vinyl residential type.  Overhead garage doors are in good condition.  One CMU wall at the stair is not stable and moves when pushed against.
  
• Interiors:  The maintenance portion of this building looks very nice finish-wise. The flooring consists of epoxy resin, CPT, and VCT – all appear to be in great shape still. Furniture in this appear new in offices. There is a section of the wall by a stairwell that needs to be addressed as it moves when pushed. The adjacent connecting offices appear to have the updated CPT. Furnishings are a mix of ages/styles/finishes. Only some windows have horizontal blinds that could be switched out with roller shades.
  
• Mechanical:  The ground-mounted rooftop unit that serves the main space is in new condition. The upper and lower support spaces are conditioned by three other ground-mounted rooftop units that are in poor condition and should be replaced. The wall heaters, prop unit heaters and inline exhaust fans are all in poor condition and should be replaced. HVLS fans are in good condition. The office is served by a split system furnace in fair condition.
• HVAC Controls:  Distech Controls - Connected to all (4) ground mounted DX/Gas Rooftop Unit. No immediate needs for controls upgrades
• Electrical:  No generator is available, apparently one is required per director; (2) electrical services (1974) both in poor condition, should be replaced; fire alarm system installed in 2021 in excellent condition; interior lighting is mostly LED, with flat panels, retrofit tubes and high-bays; mostly manual controls, except where remodels have occurred, occupancy sensors are in those same locations; exterior lighting LED bus parking lot and LED and HID on building; exterior lighting has BMS controls
  
• Plumbing:  The water service entrance and domestic water piping are in poor condition and should be replaced. The domestic water service entrance does not include a domestic water backflow preventer. A backflow preventer needs to be installed to protect the city main from the school during a backflow event. The plumbing fixtures are in fair to good condition. The gas piping appears to be I good condition.
  
• Technology:
• No electronic door monitoring.  Staff walk around building at day’s end to check doors. 
• Video surveillance. A lot of blind spots around the exterior of the buildings.
• Classroom A/V. In working condition but getting dated.  They are planning projects to update.