{"id":170,"date":"2011-10-10T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/?p=170"},"modified":"2014-07-29T17:23:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T21:23:50","slug":"the-new-jersey-schools-development-authority-announces-first-plans-for-standardization-of-school-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/2011\/10\/10\/the-new-jersey-schools-development-authority-announces-first-plans-for-standardization-of-school-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Jersey Schools Development Authority Announces First Plans for Standardization of School Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 2, 2011, the New Jersey Schools Development Authority (SDA) announced its Model Schools Program, an initiative to implement a standardized design for SDA school facilities. As part of this initiative, SDA planned on implementing standardized systems and materials in three phases.<\/p>\n<p>Consistent with this plan, the SDA recently completed its first phase, and, has released two new manuals titled: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njsda.gov\/Design\/Construction_Details.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Materials and Systems Standards Manual and Construction Details Manual<\/em><\/a>. These manuals, which apply to Public School Facilities Projects in the State of New Jersey that are managed by the SDA, set forth the model systems and components to be used during construction of new facilities including standards for roofing, HVAC systems, flooring, finishes and more.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining two phases of the NJSDA Model Schools Program standardization plan, the \u201cKit of Parts\u201d which will provide uniform designs for classrooms and other school facility areas and the \u201c2011 Design Manual\u201d which will be the first design update since 2007, are expected to be released by the SDA in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 2, 2011, the New Jersey Schools Development Authority (SDA) announced its Model Schools Program, an initiative to implement a standardized design for SDA school facilities. As part of this initiative, SDA planned on implementing standardized systems and materials in three phases. Consistent with this plan, the SDA recently completed its first phase, and, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/2011\/10\/10\/the-new-jersey-schools-development-authority-announces-first-plans-for-standardization-of-school-designs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The New Jersey Schools Development Authority Announces First Plans for Standardization of School Designs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[446,169,30,442,443,444,441,364,363,447,445],"ppma_author":[698],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-and","tag-design","tag-kearney","tag-manual","tag-materials","tag-model","tag-program","tag-schools","tag-sda","tag-standardized","tag-systems"],"authors":[{"term_id":698,"user_id":62,"is_guest":0,"slug":"pjkearney","display_name":"Patrick J. Kearney","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/kearneypatrick-100x100.jpg","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/constructionlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}