Work Letter
1. General Construction
A. Floors
- Removal of existing flooring and prepare the slab to receive new floor finishes.
- Furnish and install building standard loop carpeting (Bigelow Basics) glued down
to existing slab with 4" straight vinyl base in tenant's choice of color, selected
by tenant from Bigelow Basic sample book.
- Furnish and install building standard vinyl composition tile (VCT) in lieu of carpet
with building standard 4" vinyl cove base in areas designated by the tenant in not more
than 5% of the area of the demised premises.
B. Ceilings
- Furnish and install 2'-0" by 2'-0" tegular edge (recessed
edge) tile with exposed 7/8" wide white tees.
- All ceilings will be continuous to the exterior walls
window, pockets will not be provided.
C. Partitions
- Demising partitions will be provided by the landlord.
- Building standard partition within tenant spaces shall
extend from the floor to 6" above the suspended ceiling and shall be framed
with 2 1/2 by 25 gauge steel studs at 24" on center. One (1) layer of 5/8"
gypsum wall- board (sheetrock) will be provided on each side and will be taped
and triple coat spackled on the exposed side.
- Exterior walls will be prepared for painting.
- Partitions terminating at the building exterior will
meet either a window mullion or column. No partitions, which interfere with
the operation of a window or obscure a window, will be permitted.
- No partitions, which will block access to radiator control
valves, shall be permitted.
- No curves will be provided in Building Standard partitions.
- Building Standard partitions will be provided at the
rate of 1 linear foot (LF) of partitions per 15 RSF.
D. Doors and Frames
- Multi tenant floors.
a) Main corridor entrances will be single 3`-0 x 7` 0" x 1 " solid core wood
doors in a full height welded hollow metal frame. The frame will have a wood
surround on the corridor side. There shall be a maximum of two (2) corridor
entrance doors per tenant on multi tenant floors.
- Single tenant floors.
a) Main entrance doors will be a pair of 3'-0' x 7' 0' x 1 " solid core wood
doors in full height welded hollow metal frame. The frame will have a wood
surround on the corridor side in a building standard finish.
- General
a) Any existing doors that are re-used shall be considered a part of the tenant's
door allowance and will be refinished to repair damage or match other interior
finishes.
b) Building Standard interior doors shall be 3'-0' x 7'-0" x 1 " solid core
wood doors in knock down hollow metal frames. Building standard interior doors
shall be provided at the rate of one (1) per 30 LF of Building Standard partition.
- Hardware
a) Building Standard entry doors will be provided with the following.
(1-1/2) Lever handle lockset
(2) One and one-half (1 ) pair butt hinges
(3) Silencers
(4) Closers will be provided on suite entry doors only. Building standard
closer shall be a surface mounted closer (parallel arm or equal) mounted on
the tenant side of the door. Closer shall be through bolted as required for
labeled openings.
b) Building Standard interior doors will be provided with the following. (1)
Lever handle lockset. (2) One and one-half(1 ) pair butt hinges. (3) Dome
Stop (4) Silencers c) Tenant, at its sole cost and expense, may install security
devices such as card or proximity readers on the entry doors, subject to the
landlord's approval. Tenant shall submit all devices for approval by the landlord
prior to installation.
E. Window Treatments
- Building standard horizontal off-white window blinds
will be provided at all windows. No substitutions will be permitted.
F. Finishes
- All partitions will be painted with one prime coat and
one finish coat in colors selected by the tenant from the landlord's standard
color chart. Paint will be Benjamin Moore or equal. All paint shall be latex
flat. Twenty percent (20%) of the partitioning may be painted in an accent
color on walls from corner to corner. No striping will be provided.
- Entrance door to tenant's space will be finished in the
buildings standard color. Wood doors and frames located within the tenant's
space will be painted with semi-gloss enamel paint, or in a clear finish at
tenants' choice.
- Radiator covers and window trim will be painted with
semi-gloss enamel paint.
G. Electric.
- Electrical capacity will be provided at 6 watts connected
load per rentable square foot at the floor electrical closet at 277/480 volts
for the tenant.
- Lighting shell consist of a 2' x 4', 18 cell 3" deep
parabolic fluorescent lay in fixture with three (3) 32watt energy efficient
lamps and electronic ballast.
- Emergency lighting will be provided by landlord within
the demised premises in compliance with applicable codes.
- Electrical receptacles shall be provided in building
standard partitions as follows. Receptacles will not be provided in core walls
or on columns.
a) 120V 15A wall receptacle: 1 per every 150RSF.
b) Dedicated 120V 20A wall receptacle: 1 per every 5,000 RSF.
c) GFI receptacle: 1 per every 16,000 RSF.
d) One quadruplex electrical wall receptacle may be exchanged for two duplex
outlets.
- Light switches shall be provided as follows.
a) One (1) switch per room.
b) Open office areas shall be provided with switches so that one half (1/2)
of the lights in an area greater than 500 SF may be shut off at one time.
- Fire alarms devices shall be provided in compliance with
applicable codes for office occupancies. Special fire alarm devices or systems
for computer rooms, supplementary air conditioning systems, food service facilities,
file rooms, or other non-typical office construction shall be provided by
the tenant at tenant's sole cost and expense. Final connection of all fire
alarm systems provided by tenants to the building fire alarm system shall
be by the landlord's fire alarm contractor at tenant's expense.
H. Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
- Air Conditioning
a) HVAC is provided to maintain year round comfort.
b) Zoning is provided to individual areas (areas are determined by tenant
layout) by use of single duct bypass boxes. Allowances are: 1 per 1,080 square
feet for perimeter zones and 1 per 1800 square feet for interior zones.
c) Air distribution devices will be building standard diffusers and return
air grills compatible with the building standard ceiling and shall be white
to match the ceiling. No linear diffusers, air handling light fixtures, air
boots, etc. will be provided.
- Ventilation air (fresh air) will be provided at the rate
of .2 CFM per square foot.
- Heating
a) Heating is provided through perimeter cast iron radiators during regular
business hours.
b) Zoning is provided utilizing self contained thermostatic control valves
at a minimum one (1) per two radiators.
I. Fire protection
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Recessed concealed sprinkler heads and necessary branch piping
will be provided, at the rate of one (1) head per 150 RSF in compliance with
applicable code requirements for an office occupancy. Sprinkler heads will be
located at the center of ceiling tiles.
- Sprinkler heads will be in off-white standard factory
finish.
- No deluge, pre-action, or high-density systems will be
installed.
J.
Telecommunications
- Voice, high-speed data, and high speed Internet access
will be available to every tenant space at tenant cost. Tenant will have the
option of choosing any telephone carrier, Internet provider, data transmission
carrier, etc., at the sole cost and expense of the tenant.
- The building will provide redundant fiber optic vertical
backbone containing the following.
a) Twenty-four (24) Multimode and twelve (12) single Mode fibers per floor.
b) T1 (ABAM) cable and voice grade copper (approximately 48 pairs per floor).
c) 200 pair voice grade copper per floor.
d) RG-11 riser grade coax cable to support DSS and land based broadcast video.
- Telephone riser and IDF shall be provided by the landlord.
IDF's will contain blocks for termination of tenant cabling for high speed
fiber, copper, an Internet provisioning. All connection of tenant telephone
cabling to the building IDF shall be by landlord's contractor at the tenant's
sole expense.
- Tenant shall install its own telephone equipment wiring
at tenant's sole cost and expense. Tenant telephone work shall be coordinated
with the initial tenant installation; cost of repair, refinishing, etc., due
to the actions of tenant's installation forces shall be repaired by landlord
at tenant expense.
- Tenant may utilize plenum rated cable for voice and data
cabling.
- A telephone junction box and conduit stub-up will be
provided for tenant telephones at the rate of one (1) per every 200RSF. One
(1) dragline shall be provided for each stub-up; stub-ups will extend 6" above
the finished ceiling.
- The building riser will be supported by several voice/data
carriers and services whose facilities will be co-located at the MDF (main
distribution frame) room in the basement. Scheduled services available are:
Qwest redundant OC-18 with expansion to OC-48+, Bell Atlantic sonnet ring,
MCI/Worldcom services, and others.
K. Tenant Identification.
- Landlord shall provide a building directory in the ground
floor lobby. Tenant shall submit its building directory listing with its final
plans. The quantity of listing will be determined by Landlord at Tenant's
sole cost and expense.
- Landlord shall provide initial listings at its sole cost
and expense. Any changes or additional listings will be furnished and installed
by Landlord at Tenant's sole cost and expense.
- Landlord, at its sole cost and expense, shall furnish
and install Tenant's identification on Tenant's front entry surround. The
design of such identification shall conform to the Building Standard, and
shall be approved by landlord.
- In cases where a tenant had two corridor entry doors,
one shall be designated as the principal entry only. Secondary doors shall
have no identification whatsoever, except the room or suite number.