Burgard Vocational High School - Craftsman Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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,pdf Mr. Burgard Operating the Steam Shovel and Members of Board of Education, Busi- ness Men, and Trades Representatives at Ground Breaking Ceremony, May 7, 1929 .. 25 1

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Q PF ul Electrical Installations Two kinds of electric 'current will be used in the building: 220 volts, 3 phase, 25 cycle alternating and 115' to 230 volt, three wire direct current generated at the school by motorfgenerators, for special use in the printing department, the dynamometer test rooms and for science laboratory use. A standard, fully automatic emergency light system which cutsfin when reg' ular service fails and cutsfouts when the same is restored, is part of the equipment at the school. There will be installed a complete private intercommunicating system of telephones to every shop and room in the building, and a special AutofCall which will operate from the ofhce. The clock equipment specified includes a program system of master and secondary clocks with an automatic sixfprogram circuit. In connection with each wall telephone in all classrooms, lecture rooms, study rooms and special assembly rooms, there is furnished a radio jack conf nected to the central radio control panel on the auditorium stage. The stage has a door large enough for automobiles, opening on the north trailic corridor. Installed at the right of the proscenium opening there will be a complete, manually operated, selective interlocking, mechanical remote con- trol stage switchboard for dimmers, footlights, border lights, and the audito- rium lights. 4 A moving picture booth is located in the rear of the balcony and pipe organ lofts are provided at the right and left of the upper part of the stage. Engineering Features The building will have a pressure water system with pressure tank, pumps, motors, and air compressor for supplying the entire building with water at a pressure of sixty pounds per square inch. A builtfin motor exhaust pipe system to all motor testing shops and a com' pressed air system for all shops and laboratories are being provided. The boiler and fan equipment calls for two boilers capable of developing a maximum of 600 horsepower each and furnished with standard underffeed automatic stokers and four main fans for supplying fresh air, also a radial brick chimney 125 feet high, equipped with a lightning conductor, and guaranteed to withstand a wind Velocity of 100 miles per hour. Deferred Contracts The equipment, including furniture such as desks, lockers, tables, chairs, etc., shop machinery, tools and apparatus, sodding, seeding, planting, fences, flagpoles, slate blackboards, alternator or folding blackboards, visual education stereopticons and motion picture machines, lighting fixtures, shades, stage draf peries, auditorium seats, oiiice furniture, gymnasium and cafeteria equipment, will cost approximately S500,000. It is expected that the building will be ready for occupancy September l, 1930. , -24- 'rim ' A I' J V, ll ally I -11. ' .. it Hu 1' T V i L 1 I f I I - if hs A lLa -lf ff

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