Identifier: schoolarchitectu00bruc (find matches)
Title: School architecture; a handy manual for the use of architects and school authorities
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bruce, William George, 1856-1949 Bruce, William Conrad, 1882- Bruce, Frank Milton, 1885- (from old catalog)
Subjects: School buildings
Publisher: Milwaukee, Johnson service company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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X90 Heating and Ventilation supplied. Undoubtedly a building can thus bewarmed in a short time at very little expense. Radiators.—Radiators ought always takeprecedence over steam coils, except in base-ments. They are pleasing to the eye, allow ampleradiation surface, and can be placed whereverdesired. In general they should be simple indesign, contain no dust catching nooks or cor-ners, and be fitted with automatic air valves. Foot Warmers.—Foot warmers are desir-able in elementary schools, installed in lowercorridors. They may consist of simple steampipes encased in tin or galvanized iron boxes.Air supply may be taken from the risers in thevestibule stairs. It is well to have a water dripand a drip pipe connected with the casing toprevent drainage through leakage that may oc-cur and to carry off water from the wet shoesof children. Foot warmers should have meansfor closing when not in use, and a cleanout. 191
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193 APPENDIX A Laws for Schoolhouse Construction The general building and inspection lawshave heretofore governed the erection of school-houses. These have referred principally to firesafety and require usually the swinging ofexit doors outward. During the past few years,however, school authorities have prevailed onlegislatures to enact laws more closely govern-ing the construction of school buildings. Fol-lowing are a few of the best laws now on thestatute books of the several states: The New York Law 1. No schoolhouse shall hereafter be erectedin any city of the third class or in any incor-porated village or school district, and no addi-tion to a school building in any such place shallhereafter be erected, the cost of which shall ex-ceed five hundred dollars, until the plans andspecifications for the same shall have been sub-mitted to the commissioner of education and hisapproval indorsed thereon. Such plans andspecifications shall show in detail the ventilation,heating and lighting

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