SIGNAGE AND BUILDINGS

Standard colours on University buildings.  Colours to be used for TUT Buildings are as follows:

Policy regarding information boards, direction boards and advertisement boards.

- Objective

The objective of all information boards on campus is to supply the user and/or visitor with specific information in the most user-friendly way. This document will also ensure uniformity with regard to the composition and installation of all information boards on all campuses.

- Responsibility

Information boards are administrated by the Directorate of Logistical Services.

- Request for manufacturing and installing information boards

• Only the Building Administration Division of the Directorate of Logistical Services is authorised to manufacture information boards or to have them manufactured, and to install or have them installed on campus.

• Requests for the manufacturing of information boards should be made by means of a form, e-mail, or the Applix helpdesk system, and should be submitted to Building Administration.

• All requests must be handed in at Building Administration at least three weeks before the required date. Building Administration will ensure that the boards are installed or removed at the time requested.

• No loose papers or posters may be used as information boards.

• An information board's visibility, as a whole, may not be blocked in any way by any equipment, plant or other board.

• No information board or advertisement, in any form whatsoever, may be erected or put up outside Tshwane University of Technology grounds without first obtaining permission from the City Council and the Chief Director: Corporate Relations to do so.

• The installation of all road traffic information boards on and outside the institution’s grounds is the responsibility of the Directorate of Buildings and Estates.

• When a building or terrain is to be developed as a project, the Directorate of Buildings and Estates will have the necessary information boards manufactured and erected as part of the project.

- Types of information boards

There are two types of information boards, namely –

• General information boards; and directional boards.

• General information boards are put up on the inside of and outside buildings to indicate the specific location of offices, halls and the offices of senior staff.

• Directional boards are put up alongside roads and pathways on the grounds to direct persons to specific buildings, halls, offices, etc.

• General information boards

Definitions

Four types of permanent noticeboards/information boards are currently used, namely types A; B; C; and D

• Type A noticeboard (black boards with white letters that are shifted in)
  Type A noticeboards are installed in the hallways of buildings to direct persons to the various halls and offices. Under special circumstances, such boards may be installed outside buildings.

• Type B and Type C noticeboard
  These boards are installed in the passageways of buildings and are used for the putting up of advertisements and/or departmental notices.

• Type D noticeboard
  This is a triangular information board that is erected at a strategic place on campus with a map of the campus concerned. Notices and/or advertisements may also be put up on such boards.

- Responsibility

• Type A noticeboard
  A Type A noticeboard has a locking device and is installed at the request of Technical Services. The latter budgets for such boards and maintains and updates them.

• Type B notice board
  A Type B noticeboard has a locking device and is requisitioned from Technical Services by the faculty or department concerned (user of building) via the Applix helpdesk system for the posting of test results, etc. The faculty or department concerned budgets for such boards and maintains and updates them.

• Type C noticeboard
  Type C noticeboards are all open noticeboards that have been installed in the passageways of buildings. They are used for advertisements. The Student Council is responsible for such boards, which may also be used for official departmental notices. In the latter case, the faculty or department concerned assumes responsibility for the content and aesthetic requirements, and budgets for the boards.

• Type D noticeboard
  Technical Services maintains and updates such boards.

- General

• Only Technical Services may use the Type A noticeboard.

• The faculty or department concerned itself must consider and approve or reject all notices and advertisements to be put up on Type B noticeboards.

• The Student Council itself must consider and approve or reject all notices and advertisements to be put up on Type C or Type D noticeboards.

• The temporary noticeboards used by Academic Registration for results, etc, remain the responsibility of Academic Registration.

- Requirements for information boards

• All indoor boards and directional signs shall have white letters engraved on a black background.

• All outdoor boards are engraved in black letters on a yellow background, except those for the Arcadia Campus, where all outdoor boards are engraved in white letters on a blue background.

• Temporary directional boards are engraved on a yellow background on stands and placed alongside the pathway/road leading to the building concerned in such a manner that traffic is not distracted.

The names of certain selected divisions are engraved in black letters on a white background. A standardised procedure is determined by the Directorate of Buildings and Estates. Also see Official Road/Campus signage.  The letter type is standardised and is determined by the Directorate of Buildings and Estates.  Boards that are too large to be manufactured by the Directorate of Buildings and Estates are farmed out to contractors for the account of the applicant.  All boards must be drawn up in English.

- Name boards of staff at their offices

• All name boards are engraved in white letters on a black background.

• The name and post designation plates are installed next to the office door.

• A standard aluminium plate that slides in is used. Name plate size: 200 mm x 35 mm; letter height 10 mm, and post designation plate size: 200 mm x 45 mm; letter height 8 mm.

See Figure 1(a) and Figure 1(b)
Fig. 1(a)




Fig. 1(b)

Material:	Gravopy 317 Black (indoor)
Lettering:	Vinyl (White)

Requirements:
 

• Name board: Initials and surname only; no full-stop after or between initials. A person’s title is depicted only if it is “Dr” or “Professor”.

• Post designation: The post designation is given in English only.

• A standardised type face is used, as determined by Buildings and Estates.

• Exceptions: In Building 21 and at the Witbank and Nelspruit campuses the name and post designation are depicted in black letters on an aluminium board, which is installed next to the office door (Figure 1c).
  
  Fig. 1(c)
  
  

• Material and type: Aluminum board, 300 mm x 120 mm

• Lettering: Black vinyl

• Example: The office number also appears on the board, since there are no office numbers on the doorframe.

• Numbering in Buildings
  
  All other buildings:
  
  Fig. 2(a)
  
  
  
  

Material and type:	Gravoply 317 Black (Indoors)
Lettering:	(White Vinyl)
For example:	Offices, shafts and toilets

Building 21:
Fig. 2(b)

Material and type:	Gravoply (Silver) Metallex 338
Lettering:	(Black Vinyl)
For example:	Only shafts and toilets; offices not included

All lettering has central spacing.  The plate is affixed at the top, above the doorpost.

- Use of logo with signage

• Directional signage alongside public roads

• All directional signage alongside public roads must comprise the following:

• Black letters on a white background on a rectangular board.

• The entire logo (landscape) must be fitted into the top left-hand side of the top section of the board.

• The name of the campus concerned must appear at the bottom right-hand corner in Trebuchet bold.

• Directional signage must be placed in accordance with the directives of the applicable Provincial Road Ordinance.

• The boards must be lit at night.

- Main entrances to campuses

A three-dimensional logo and naming must be erected at all main entrances to campuses and must comprise the following:

• The official logo.

• Tshwane University of Technology in Trebuchet bold.

• The name of the campus in question (optional) and not interfering with the highlighted holy space.

• The sizes of the sign must be in balance with the available space.

• The corporate signs at the main entrances to all campuses must be lit at night.

In addition to the above, the words Tshwane University of Technology and the name of the campus in question may be affixed to the gate or a wall next to the gate in metal letters. All words must be in Trebuchet bold caps throughout.

Main buildings
No other logos or symbols may appear on buildings, except in the case of naming rights.  Main buildings may also display the three-dimensional logo on the building itself. All other buildings must be identified by a number and logo.

Noticeboards in buildings
All official noticeboard frames must be painted red or yellow.

Inside specific halls and auditoriums
There must be a full-colour logo in relief on all speaker’s desks and podiums of halls and auditoriums that are rented out to or used by outside concerns on a part-time basis.

The logo at residences
There must be a corporate sign at all main entrances of city residences and guest houses, and the sign must comprise the following:

• A white background on a rectangular board.

• The entire logo (with the logo type centred at the bottom together with the positioning line) must be fitted into the top left-hand corner of the board.

• The name of the residence or guest house concerned must be centred and in Trebuchet bold. The size of the board is optional.

• The logo at the main entrances of all city campuses and guest houses must be lit at night.
  And/or

• The three-dimensional logo and name of the residence or guest house, in metal letters, may be affixed to the wall of the building. The size of the sign must be in balance with the available space.

• In the case of residences, such letters must be in metal or black Trebuchet bold.

Official Road/Campus signage (Red Board indicators)
This consists, in general, of steel tubing, ±298,57 mm in diameter, and steel sheeting of given dimentions – see Fig. 3(a) for construction specifications:

    - Signage on official roads/campus signage

        The material to be used for signage on such boards is Gravoply 396 16M white and Black Vinyl (Gravitack
        221 ± Ral 9005). The overall size of the sign is 1200 mm x 100 mm.  The lettering must be in Arial regular. For the specific dimensions for letter placing, see Fig. 3(b)

        - White signs with black lettering:

        To be used to indicate all executive functionaries at Tshwane University of Technology, e.g. in-house
        subfunctionaries, such as –

a) the Financial Aid Bureau, Security, etc.;
b) organisations associated with the institution, such as F’Satie
c) businesses, such as the Internet Café and others;
d) all academic faculties; and
e) all functional buildings, Theunis Bester, Administration building, etc.

Yellow signs with black lettering:
To be used for all department and building indicators, e.g. “Building 9”.

Exception (red board indicators)

Building 21:

Silver with black vinyl lettering

- Red Board
Fig.3(a)

- Permanent Road and Campus signage

Fig. 3(b)

Material and type:	Gravoply Yellow (for outside use) 396 – 16M
Lettering:	Black Vinyl
Letter height:	66 mm
Letter type:	Arial Regular
Arrow specs:	Height: 66 mm x 66 mm

- Vehicles
The logo must appear on both front doors of vehicles, and on both sides as well as the back of all buses. The portrait logo is preferable, but the landscape version is also allowed.

- Naming rights

Where a funder erects a building or fully equips a facility, the option of naming rights will be offered to such a funder. Tshwane University of Technology Advancement Office will facilitate the process and negotiate a written agreement for naming rights. Where naming rights are negotiated in any other way than the one set out herein, a draft agreement must first be submitted to the Tshwane University of Technology Advancement Office, for approval.

- Decision making
After a motivation and written agreement for naming rights have been drawn up by the Tshwane University of Technology Advancement Office, they will be presented to the Executive Management Committee of the institution for approval.  The Executive Management Committee reserves the right to withdraw naming rights if and when the particular circumstances (liquidation, merger or sale of company) warrant such a decision.

- Long-term naming rights
Naming rights may be granted to a company or person for a period longer than ten years, based on a donation of at least half the erection costs of a building or facility of which the amount should not be less than R500 000, received over a period of three years.

- Short-term naming rights
The institution may decide to give recognition to a loyal funder by naming a hall, laboratory or other facility after such a funder for an agreed term (less than ten years), on condition that continued donations be made of a minimum amount of R100 000 per year. The minimum amount may be adjusted, depending on the size, location and visibility of the facility and the frequency of use of the facility.  The naming period is negotiable in terms of full units of twelve months each.  On the expiry of a naming period, the name plaques of the funder shall be affixed to the inside of the facility concerned.

- Escalation
Efforts must be made, during negotiations, to incorporate an escalation clause based on the current rate of inflation in respect of the amounts involved.

- Name plaques
In all cases, the funder concerned shall provide a name plaque to the specification of the institution, as contained in the corporate identity manual.

- Existing naming rights
Naming rights granted before the publication of this document shall not be affected by this document. However, the Tshwane University of Technology Advancement Office will try to persuade such funders to accept the terms and conditions contained herein.

- General
A donation should not necessarily be used in the faculty or department where the named facility concerned is located.