16.
FINISHES:
16.1
Interior finishes are prescribed in VA Program Guide PG-18-14,
Room Finishes, Door and Hardware Schedule. The project management
team must review any deviation from this document prior to start
of construction document phase.
16.2
Combine the finish schedule and color design schedule and include
them in the specifications, not on the drawings. Use the finish
schedule format included in Room Finishes, Door, and Hardware
Schedule (PG-18-14). Demolition plans must show the existing
finishes.
17.
HANDRAILS, WALL GUARDS AND CORNER GUARDS:
17.1
HANDRAILS AND BUMPER GUARDS: Except in administrative areas,
provide handrails and wall guards on both sides of all corridors.
Provide continuous reinforcing in the wall attachment of
handrails and bumper guards.
17.2
CORNER GUARDS: Provide resilient or corrosion-resisting-metal
corner guards for the external corners of finished interior walls
and columns in the paths of wheeled traffic as indicated below.
a.
Corridors
b.
Areas of:
Food Preparation and Distribution
Food Serving and Dining
Service Elevator Lobbies
Rooms containing dumbwaiters or cart-lift elevators
Maintenance and Repair
17.3
Use surface applied (full height) resilient-type corner guards on
gypsum wallboard, veneer plaster, or plaster walls. Use
corrosion-resisting-metal corner guards on masonry or ceramic tile
walls. Corner guards are not required in corridors where
continuous handrails and bumper guards are used around external
corners.
17.4
Rigid, adhesive-applied resilient corner guards are required at
external corners in patient bedrooms.
17.5
Provide structural steel angle guards, protected from corrosion by
painting or galvanizing, for exterior use in the paths of motor
vehicle traffic to the loading dock and at exposed corners on the
platform.
18.
CEILINGS:
18.1
Reflected ceiling plan at 1:100 (1/8") scale are to show the
installation of lights, diffusers, return air grilles, ceiling
tracks, acoustical tile grids, etc. as well as room numbers and
ceiling heights.
18.2
Patient bedrooms, other than geropsychiatric bedrooms, and exam
rooms are to have cubicle curtain tracks for privacy. All cubicle
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