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Recommendations: Further Development of the Data Base
632
FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE DATA BASE
As a further development of the material presented in Volume Two, the
Office of Construction should establish and maintain a design and
construction data base for use by the VA, A/E's, manufacturers,
construction contractors, and agencies other than the VA, applicable to
conventional as well as systems projects. The basic components of the
data base could be:
632.1
USER NEEDS
The user need study should be extended to all hospital functional units.
Once obtained and verified, this information should be made available to
those responsible for building design decisions.
In addition, a continuing program of evaluation and updating of the user
need statements should be implemented.
632.2
CODES AND STANDARDS
All pertinent VA documents, including existing codes and standards
adopted by the VA, should be incorporated into the data base. Each
should be modified in form and content as necessary to relate them very
directly to all other data base components with minimum overlap and
conflict.
632.3
PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS
632.3.1
The development of a comprehensive data base of criteria derived from a
study of the dimensional and environmental requirements of activities
would provide the Veterans Administration with the following benefits:
1. Optimum and minimum performance standards which may be varied as
activity patterns change.
2. A means of obtaining approval of space performance by governmental
agencies and "users" prior to individual facility design.
3. A body of information for use by architects in making design trade-offs.
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