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This military handbook, MlL-HDBK-1006/4, provides policy and detailed procedures for development and revision of definitive designs, standard designs, and standard specifications.

Criteria are developed to define facilities engineering and design technology, functional/operational requirements, and health and safety requirements for the Navy. There are about 20,000 local modifications of the three model building codes in the United States and often 15 to 30 different authors for a particular subject that applies to the Navy. Make the maximum effort to adopt local. criteria when it applies; but evaluate the effectiveness of criteria Navy-wide to ensure quality and consistency.

This handbook has been developed to ensure consistency and clarity of criteria drawings and standard specifications that strive to set practical and economical standards for the design and construction of naval shore facilities.

This handbook supersedes portions of NAVFAC DM-6, Drawings and Specifications, of February 1978 and Change 1 of March 1979.

Definitive Designs for Naval Shore Facilities, P-272, Part I, are drawings of typical buildings and structures, classified by Category Codes 100 through 700, which reflect space criteria issued in DOD Manual 4270.1-M, DOD Construction Criteria Manual, and NAVFAC P-80, Facility Planning Criteria for Navy and Marine Shore Installations. See NAVFAC P-72, Department of the Navy Facility Category Codes, for a description of Category Codes. These drawings provide floor plans, building sections and utility requirements for general guidance to architect/engineer (A/E) contractors or in-house staff designers. These drawings are used with NAVFACENGCOM criteria manuals and guide specifications listed in P-34, Engineering and Design Criteria for Navy Facilities, to develop project drawings and specifications. Figures 1 and 2 are examples of conceptual definitive designs.

The drawings in P-272, Part Two, are advance designs where specific control is required to meet standardized function. These drawings of more complex facilities often required at shore installations are classified generally by Category Codes in the 800 series. These drawings provide floor plans, equipment layouts, piping diagrams, electrical schematics, and critical requirements for specific guidance in preparing project designs. These drawings are used in conjunction with NAVFACENGCOM criteria manuals and guide specifications listed in P-34 to develop the project drawings and specifications.

These are detailed working drawings and specifications of Navy-unique facilities. These drawings and specifications form a part of the construction documents, requiring only supplemental drawings and specifications for adapting the facility to the specific site. Standard specifications are facility specifications that are incorporated verbatim in the project specifications and supplemented by sections covering project-unique features, such as sitework. See Earth Covered Circular Composite Arch Magazine, SD-1404375 through SD-1404389, for a sample standard drawing and Earth Covered Circular Composite Arch Magazine, NFSS-M21, for a sample standard specification.

These are single-line schematics, bubble diagrams, or graphics based on definitive drawings (see Figure 3) included in the facility-type criteria manuals to show functional relationships or building layout. Plates of individual rooms may be scaled drawings providing specific detailed information concerning the design of individual rooms within a specific type of facility. These plates may show (1) the location of all equipment and furnishings within the room, (2) the location of utilities serving the room (electrical, water, gases, etc.), (3) the location and size of doors and windows, (4) a reflected ceiling plan showing the location of lighting fixtures, diffusers, etc., and (5) room finishes and other technical design information about the room. See MIL-HDBK-1006/3 for the method of preparing facility plates.

The planning process for shore facilities consists of the following steps:

a) Assignment of missions and tasks by the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) to each activity of the Shore Establishment.

b) Determination of base loading. The Shore Facilities Planning System (SFPS) Report Base Loading, projects the assignment of men, ships, and planes to activities through the next 5 years.

c) Development of the Basic Facilities Requirements to support the assigned mission and loading, using planning criteria published by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command.

d) Comparison of approved requirements and existing assets at the activity.

e) Determination of excesses and deficiencies. Excesses are evaluated for possible conversion or disposal, and deficiencies are evaluated to determine how they may best be satisfied.

f) Submission of construction projects. For deficiencies that must be met by construction, construction projects are developed and submitted through the major claimants to NAVFACENGCOM, where they are entered in the MILCON Requirements List, an automated data base used in programming.

The design/construction process interface is partly bridged for executing the design of construction projects by the design guidance provided as criteria drawings and specifications developed for selected naval shore facilities.