Child Care Center Design Guide

[Pages:154]U.S. General Services Administration

Child Care Center Design Guide

Public Buildings Service Office of Child Care

PBS DIRECTIVE

SUBJECT:

Child Care Center Design Guide

1. Purpose. This directive transmits a revised version of the General Services Administration (GSA) publication, the Child Care Center Design Guide PBS-100, March 2003.

2. Cancellation. The former version of the Guide, PBS 140, dated June 1998, together with its previously published English measurement version.

3. Background. The transmitted document reflects updated guidance and standards based on GSA's experience with design, construction and renovation of centers since the last publication of the Guide. In accordance with the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (Pub. L. 100-418), which mandates the metric system as the preferred system of measurement in Federal procurement, Guide measurements are expressed in the metric system.

4. Instructions. Metric measurement should be used for all design initiated after January 1, 1994.

F. Joseph Moravec Commissioner Public Buildings Service

Attachment

PBS-140 - July 2003

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE GUIDE Chapter 2: MISSION, GOALS, ADMINISTRATION, AND POLICY Chapter 3: ADULTS AND CHILDREN IN THE CENTER Chapter 4: NAEYC AND OTHER STANDARDS Chapter 5: PLANNING FOR SPACE AND LOCATION Chapter 6: SITE DESIGN Chapter 7: INTERIOR SPACE DESIGNS Chapter 8: FURNISHINGS AND EQUIPMENT Chapter 9: INTERIOR FINISHES Chapter 10: TECHNICAL CRITERIA Appendix A: METRIC/ENGLISH CONVERSIONS Appendix B: POISONOUS PLANTS Appendix C: CONTACT SHEET Appendix D: CHILD CARE FACILITY CHECKLIST Appendix E: SUSTAINABLE DESIGN: TERMS AND GOOD PRACTICES Appendix F: ACCESSIBILITY Appendix G: PLAYGROUND SOLICITATION REQUIREMENTS

PBS-140 - July 2003

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The GSA Child Care Center Design Guide contains information obtained from the sources below. However, general concepts, theories, and empirical information obtained from those sources have not been specifically footnoted. The GSA appreciates the use of these valuable resources which provided a strong starting point for the GSA in its effort to establish national standards for child care facilities. The sources are listed alphabetically.

Caring for Our Children, National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care Programs, Second Edition. American Academy of Pediatrics, American Public Health Associa tion and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Re sources and Services Administration, Elk Grove Village, IL, 2002

An Outdoor Classroom, Steen B. Esbensen, High/Scope Press, Ypsilanti, MI, 1997

Caring Spaces, Learning Places: Children's Environments that Work, Jim Greenman. Exchange Press, Inc., Redmond, WA, 1998

Child Care Design Guide, Anita Olds, PhD, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 2000

Child Care Design Institute, Harvard University, Bruce Brook, AIA and Anita Olds, PhD.

Children's Design Group, Mark D. Pavey, AIA, Children's Accessibility Design, Montgomery, AL

City Design Collaborative, Inc., Anita Olds, PhD. Architectural Prototype Document, "Study for the Design of Day Care Centers in State Facilities," Boston, MA, 1987

Constructivist Early Education: Overview and Comparison with Other Programs, R. DeVries, and L. Kohlberg, National Association for the Educa tion of Young Children, Washington, DC, 1987

Custom Playgrounds, Esther Grossman, Play Yard Design, Brooklandville, MD

Designing Settings for Infants and Toddlers in Spaces for Children, Anita Olds, PhD, Weinstein and David (eds), Plenum, 1987

Early Childhood Environment Scale, Thelma Harms and Richard M. Clifford. Teachers College Press, New York and London, 1980

Environmental Coordinator, Sandra J. Jones, General Services Administra tion, Atlanta, GA

Infant/Toddler Rating Scale, Thelma Harms, Richard M. Clifford, and Debby Cryer. Teachers College Press, New York and London, 1990

Natural Logic, William Reed, AIA, Sustainable Design, Bethesda, MD

Piaget's Theory of Intellectual Development, Herbert Ginsberg and Sylvia Opper, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1988

Planning and Design of Children's Outdoor Play Environments, U.S. De partment of the Army, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC and National Technical Information Service, Technical Manual TM 5803, New York, NY, 1982

Play and Playscapes, Joe L. Frost. Delmar Publishers, Inc., Albany, NY, 1992

Play for all Guidelines, Susan M. Goltsman, Daniel S. Iacofano, and Robin C. Moore. MIG Communications, Berkeley, CA, 1987

PBS-140 - July 2003

AK-1

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Playgrounds for Young Children: National Survey and Perspectives, Sue C. Worthham and Joe L. Frost, American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, Reston, VA, 1990

"Psychological and Physiological Harmony in Child Care Center Design", A.R. Olds, PhD, Special Issue of Children's Environments Quarterly, Win ter 1989, Vol. 6, No. 4

Quality in Child Care. What Does the Research Tell Us? D.A. Phillips, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, DC, 1987

Raising Children Toxic Free, Herbert Needleman and Philip Landrigan, Avon Press, New York, NY, 1995

Recommendations for Accessibility Standards for Children's Environments, Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, M.G.B. Long, and R.L. Mace. Barrier Free Environments, Raleigh, NC, 1992

Recommendations for Child Care Centers (rev. ed.), G.T. Moore, C.G. Lane, A.B. Hill, U. Cohen, and T. McGinty. University of Wisconsin, Mil waukee Center for Architecture and Urban Planning Research, Milwau kee, WI, 1989

Report and Model Law of Public Play Equipment and Areas, M.L. Morrison and M.E. Fish, Consumer Federation of America, Washington, DC, 1992

The Case for Mixed Age Grouping in Early Education, L.G. Katz, D. Evangelou, and J.A. Hartman, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, DC, 1990

What is Quality Child Care? B.M. Caldwell and A.G. Hilliard, III, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, DC, 1985

AK-2

PBS-140 - July 2003

 ................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download