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BY SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock Nrwn
Special Writer Architect Avery Faulkner told school board members that school construction costs now range from $50 to $60 per square foot. Office space would cost $50 per square foot, general use classrooms would cost about $55 per square foot, and science laboratories with a lot of fixed equipment would cost about $60 per square foot, Faulkner said at a special meeting with school board members Friday evening. Architectural and engineering fees would add an extra 10 percent to these costs, and furniture, if needed, would add another' 15 percent. In addition construction costs have been increasing at a fairly steady rate of 10 percent per year since 1972, he added.
Faulkner told board members that he had come, not to seek a job, but as a part-time resident of the county experienced in designing schools, with a desire as a member of the community to assist the school board with information.
He added that board members and the community had three basic chores: first to agree on a desired curriculum, second to agree on space needed for that curriculum, and third to work out construction and financing details. The third is the easiest, he said.
Board member Robert Eastham maintained that the board had not done the preliminary work needed before members talked with an architect since no program audit had been done.
Faulkner said a normal audit would be a space study chart with all rooms listed down the left side of the chart and time periods across the top. Then lines would be drawn in grid fashion and all spaces filled in showing what use was being made of the room at each time period.
Eastham claimed that such a chart must have existed in 1979-80 when he visited the school, but Faulkner said it should be done again for . 1981.
He also suggested that "'sefciral kuclf charts might be done: one showing the classes being taught, one showing the numbers of students in the rooms, another colorcoded to show if the classroom was a generalpurpose room or one suitable for only certain purposes such as music or lab rooms.
There are two types of classrooms Faulkner said. Non-specialized language rooms are suitable for English, foreign languages.
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