Sec. 201. Standard design in capital construction
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It is the sense of Congress that the Department’s Bureau of Overseas Building Operations
(OBO)or successor office should give appropriate consideration to Standard Embassy Design, in which each new embassy and consulate starts with a standard design and keeps customization to a minimum. The Secretary shall carry out any new embassy compound or new consulate compound project that is in the design phase or pre-design phase as of the date of the enactment of this Act and that utilizes a non-standard design in consultation with the appropriate congressional committees. The Department shall provide the appropriate congressional committees, for each such project, the following documentation: A comparison of the estimated full lifecycle costs of the project to the estimated full lifecycle costs of the project if it were to use a standard embassy design. A comparison of the estimated completion date of the project to the estimated completion date of the project if it were to use a standard embassy design. A comparison of the security of the completed project to the security of the completed project if it were to use a standard embassy design. A justification for the Secretary’s selection of a non-standard design over a standard design for the project. A written explanation if any of the documentation necessary to support the comparisons and justification, as the case may be, described in paragraphs
(1)through
(4)cannot be provided. In this section the term non-standard design means a new embassy compound or new consulate compound design that does not utilize a standardized design template for the structural, spatial, and security requirements of the compound, or a new embassy compound or new consulate compound project that does not utilize a design-build delivery method.