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3 The Committee's Work Approach
3 The Committee's Work Approach
Pages 14-20
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Morris (cost control and procurement aspects) Federal agency liaison representatives: None 14
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Subcommittee 8: Building Structure, Envelope, Fenestration and Internal Functional Relationships Charge: To review existing criteria and guidelines related to building structural, envelope, and fenestration systems and to recommend modifications where appropriate, initiating and overseeing research as necessary; to review existing building programrning guidance with respect to internal functional relationships and adjacencies, recommending changes where appropriate; and to consider the potential unplications of security considerations for architectural form and building planning. Members: Stuart L
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Many government agencies must address security concerns in the design of their buildings; ~d although such concerns are not identical to those of the State Department, nevertheless shed light on the potential of the federal building process to respond to unique building needs. The federal agency liaison representatives to the committee contributed knowledge from other areas of the government community and reported on research that is directly applicable to the committee's work, including the following: .
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During the course of the committee's work, the State Department also made available various reports that were applicable to the current effort but that had been prepared under separate contracts. To provide a centralized technical reference collection, the staff of the Building Research Board assembled the materials }toted above and other relevant reference matter: reports, criteria, and documents from other federal agencies, and security directories, manuals, handbooks, and pertinent documents available in the general literature.
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On January 1~17, 1985, the full committee and subcomm~ttees met to discuss the possible classification of the final report and to receive further background on the State Department's Chancery Building Program and Fire Protection Criteria documents. At this meeting the concept of performance criteria was adopted by the committee as the approach for developing guidelines and criteria.
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posts: Cairo, Athens, and Lisbon (March 1985~; Vienna (August 1985~; Ankara, ~ r, and Istanbul (August 1985~; and ~ Bonn and Paris (August 1985~. On the visit to Turkey, which was made at the request of the State Department, committee members and BRB staff joined a site selection team that was charged with evaluating sites for a replacement embassy in Ankara and replacement consulates in ~ r and Istanbul.
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These briefings were invaluable to the committee in enhancing its understanding of certain technical issues and in ensuring that it had been made aware of the most up-to-date information available through public and private channels.
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