Chapter 4: Courtrooms
CHAPTER 4:
COURTROOMS
This chapter contains spatial relationship, accessibility, and circulation (SRAC)
diagrams, sample floor plans, design tables, and specific guidelines for courtrooms
of the U.S. Court of Appeals (USCA), U.S. District Court (USDC) including
magistrate judges, and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court (USBC). The chapter provides
a description of courtroom functions/activities; user capacity; adjacency and
circulation; group size; space size; design requirements; security; acoustics;
heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC); lighting; and electrical, audio,
video, communications, and data transmission.
The number of spaces shown on the SRAC diagrams is for illustrative purposes
only; the actual number of spaces required for a specific facility is determined in
the building program.
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