UFC 4-740-14
1 August 2002
desk. Locate system remotes in all child activity rooms, playgrounds, offices, staff
areas, and kitchen.
Mount remotes 1370 mm (54 in.) above finished floor or grade. Provide a
variable volume control with a mean volume level of 15 dBA above
ambient noise level at 3000 mm (10 ft.). Provide controls that allow
private conversation.
The Air Force requires a separate after-hours intercom system
between the front entrance and the attending personnel.
7-2.4.3.3
communications room.
7-2.4.3.4
7-2.4.3.5
Building Security. The purpose of designed security measures is to
keep children safe within the center, to safeguard them from outside intruders, and to
protect them from hazards to the fullest extent possible.
Systems include equipment, base electrical power, and conduit as
required. Design all security alarm systems to report to an alarm system
or to a central monitoring station as an audible and visual alarm signal (or
both). Install an audible device that is different from the fire alarm device.
Provide mass notification capability according to AT/FP design criteria
(see Section 1-5).
7-2.4.3.6
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV).
Service requirements vary on
CCTV systems for CDCs. Note the following criteria:
Navy. Provide conduit (minimum 19 mm (.75 in.)) and cabling in all
modules; locate central monitors at the main reception area. Use the
conduit to accommodate government-furnished/government-installed,
locally funded video equipment. This may require outlets higher in the
ceilings, walls or both. Provide electrical service adjacent to anticipated
location of cameras and monitors.
Air Force and Marine Corps. Provide the entire CCTV system including
cameras, monitors, conduit, cabling, power, and junction boxes for CCTV
system.
o Placement. Place CCTV cameras in all child care areas so that
complete and unobstructed surveillance of the areas is possible.
CCTV camera placement for surveillance of outdoor play areas,
while not required, is encouraged. Provide for CCTV monitors in
the central administration reception area. Exact quantities,
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