Hosted Areas Planning Work Products

This page is in flux. The Space Planning for Hosted Areas Committee will be updating it continually to share information with the membership. That means that everything in here is a rough draft!

Plans

Plan options, as of 2013-03-23.

Plans Notes

Hot Metals

• Locating near the back door allows airflow for forging, foundry
• Locating toward the front allows easier access to ventilation
• Includes space for all sheet metal equipment and a potential CNC plasma cutter

Wood Shop

• Locating near the loading dock allows easy loading/unloading access for large lumber
• Keeping in the current location causes the general area to be also dusty
• Keeping in the current location allows dust collection and ShopBot to potentially stay in place
• Moving requires that the current space be cleaned
• Would include member storage shelving
• Includes space for ShopBot and desktop CNC routers

Cold Metals

• Includes the jewelry equipment, located under the catwalk
  • Jewelry equipment requires ventilation
• All options require extensive three-phase work
• Due to low dust and noise, location in Plan Option 1 and 2 permit the large, sliding fire doors between jewelry and Meeting/Lounge Area to stay open to through traffic.

CNC Clean Area

• Would require ventilation and compressed air runs if small, quiet compressor is not sufficient

General Area

• If powder coating is not a code concern, can go in ex-garage shed, past the boiler
• Would include member storage

Upstairs

• CNC equipment would move from graphic arts and textiles; graphic arts and textiles would expand into the cleared area
• Electronics would not change

Additional Notes

• Hookups for an additional shop sink exist immediately opposite of the large sliding door to the Meeting/Lounge Area (exterior of the short kitchen wall.) This allows for a potential, larger washup sink.

Code and Permit Concerns

• High Hazard Occupancy (Class I)
  • Wood shop and hot metals classified as a high hazard due to dust, compressed air, flammable gases, et cetera
  • Any separations must be four hour walls (which, presumably, implies cement block construction)
• Maria’s boss, Linda willing to help
• Permits
  • We’ll need electrical permit, and interior built out permit
  • An Easy Permit might be available, allowing us to avoid paying for an architect
  • This requires a licensed contractor and electrician, because the space will be inspected
• ADA
  • Knocking down a bathroom wall won’t be trivial, needs more research
  • Funds are available for 501(c)3s aiming at ADA compliance
  • Replacing the safe to make a bathroom might be appropriate
  • This can allow us to do it correctly, but will require plumbing permit
  • As soon as possible, we need to add messages to all event announcements regarding helping people get access
  • Linda stated that this is sufficient to meet ADA requirements in the interim
• Hot metals must move due to ventilation, which implies walls in every plan
  • This is due to dust
• Any wall penetrations (compressed air, ventilation) may need to be fire rated or comply with code regulations, needs more research
  • Maria will ask Linda about implications
• Any announcement with the plans or the final vote will have to include a caveat about code implications that are yet to be discovered