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Campus facilities standards assist architects, engineers, other design professionals and contractors in understanding the university's requirements. These standards represent what is unique about construction on the campus and consider the total cost of ownership. The design professional must follow industry best practices in all areas not covered by these standards. These standards are not specifications. Design professionals must familiarize themselves with the standards and incorporate them into project-specific documents and specifications.

In the rare situation where a deviation from the standard is necessary, the design professional should submit a written request for variance to the campus. The Facilities Standards Committee will determine approval of the deviation request.

Table of Contents
General Project Standards (Sections A0000 through A0050)
Structure, Building Envelope & Interiors (Sections B0010 through C2030)
Building Services (Sections D0000 through D7090)
Special Construction (Sections F0000 through F0000)
Sitework and Utilities (Sections G0010 through G3060)
Appendices

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Feedback/Variance Request

The University of Colorado welcomes your comments and participation to keep the campus standards current and helpful to all users. This form is to be used for making project specific variance requests and/or general feedback on the campus standards. For project specific variance requests, the design professional shall make a variance request during the design phase of a project prior to construction. The design professional must include an assessment of the total cost of ownership for the product or system they are seeking a variance from. This form is not to be used in place of a request for information (RFI) or change order (CO) process to meet project field conditions.

Any variance from the products or system will need approval via this form. All fields on this form must be completed; incomplete requests will not be processed.

Name (first and last) *

CU Boulder department or company name *

Email address *

Phone number *

Best phone number to call you if we need extra information or clarification.

Campus Standards Section Number *

Type of issue *

Interpretation

Technical

Update

Additional Information

Describe issue or variance request *

Please describe your issue or variance request. If applicable, also discuss maintainability and life cycle/total cost of ownership as it relates to your request.

For variance requests only

A variance request will require, in addition to the description of the request, a comparison of the proposed product or system to that in the Standards. The comparison should include technical data comparison, number of years utilized in the Boulder area, number of years manufacturer in business, etc. Please also discuss maintainability and life cycle/total cost of ownership. Please attach supporting documentation as a PDF or a word DOC file.
Files must be less than 32 MB.
Allowed file types: pdf doc docx.

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