2501 North Front Street, Harrisburg, PA 17110-1189

Ph: 717/234-3255    Fax: 717/234-3316

Plan Room Rules and Regulations

In order to serve the best interest of all members, Rules and Regulations have been adopted by the Board to promote efficiency of operation and fairness to all. 

Please furnish your estimators with a copy.
Additional copies may be obtained by calling the Exchange Office at (717) 234-3255 or from the Plan Room Coordinator.

1.  Official Plan Room hours are 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday, except holidays and/or days of special Builders Exchange functions.

2.  The Exchange facilities are not to be used as an office or lunchroom.  It is designed to provide reasonable plan service only and not accommodate full time use for estimating and transaction of business.  Because of the volume of calls received in the office, those using the Plan Room are urged to limit telephone use to business calls only.  For Plan Room information or to reach an estimator, please call our direct line at (717) 255-9728.  SMOKING IS PROHIBITED.

3.  ALL ESTIMATORS MUST REGISTER UPON ENTERING THE PLAN ROOM and sign for each set of plans taken for use.  Use only one set at a time and limit your activities to one table.  When finished, MARKS, CHECKS, or FIGURES must be erased prior to returning plans to the bin and rack.  Do not leave plans idle at any time, including the lunch hour.

4.  Handle plans carefully to prevent mutilation.  Any repairs needed should be brought to the attention of the Plan Room Coordinator.  Specification booklets are not to be disassembled at any time.  Anyone found doing so will pay replacement costs and lose Plan Room privileges.

5.  Use the Plan Room as quietly as possible.  No loitering or loud conversation permitted at any time.  Cell phone usage is restricted to the lobby area or outside the building.

6.  Plans and specs may not be taken from the building during normal office hours and may not be reserved for use in the Plan Room during the day.  Three sets (in order of preference) may be reserved with the Coordinator for overnight use.  If another estimator desires the third choice, it must be relinquished.  Plans may be picked up during office hours between 4:00 and 4:30 pm, provided they are not in use at time of pick-up.  Plans reserved for the weekends and holidays may be picked up at 3:30 pm, provided they are not in use.

7.  Plans must be returned by 8:00 am the next regular business day.  Inform the Coordinator when they are back or they may be placed in the box at the entrance to the Plan Room if the office is not open.

8.  If the estimator's schedule changes and it will not be necessary to take plans out overnight, HE MUST CALL AND CANCEL HIS RESERVATION TWO HOURS PRIOR TO CLOSING.  THIS WILL AFFORD SOMEONE ELSE AN OPPORTUNITY TO USE THEM.

9.  Members who do not pick up plans two times when reserved for overnight use, unless cancelled, shall be penalized for 60 days from taking plans out overnight.  This shall also apply to members who return plans late.  Abuse of Plan Room privileges will result in suspension.

10.  Members whose dues are thirty days in arrears shall be denied the right to take plans out overnight.

11.  Blue Prints will not be reproduced after 4:00 pm.

12.  When referring a contractor to use the Plan Room, please be sure to advise them that they must be a Member of the Exchange to use the facilities.

13.  Member tenants occupying the Exchange Building may sign out plans and specs for use in their own offices, on an hourly basis, during the office hours.