| 050 Inactive Area | Rooms available for assignment to an organizational unit or activity but
unassigned at the time of the inventory.
Limitations: Rooms being modified or not completed at the time of the inventory are
classified as Alteration or Conversion Area (060) or Unfinished Area (070). |
| 060 Alteration or Conversion Area | Spaces temporarily out of use because they are being altered, remodeled, or
rehabilitated at the time of the inventory.
Limitations: Spaces inactive or not completed at the time of the inventory are classified
as Inactive Area (050) and Unfinished Area (070), respectively. |
| 070 Unfinished Area | All potentially assignable areas in new buildings, shell space, or additions to
existing buildings not completely finished at the time of the inventory.
Limitations: Intended only for the unfinished part or shell area of a building or addition;
the parts that are in use should be appropriately classified. |
| 110 Classroom | A room or space used primarily for instruction classes and that is not tied to a
specific subject or discipline by equipment in the room or the configuration of the space.
Description: Includes rooms or spaces generally used for scheduled instruction that
require no special, restrictive equipment or configuration. These spaces may be called
lecture rooms, lecture-demonstration rooms, seminar rooms, and general purpose
classrooms. A classroom may be equipped with tablet armchairs (fixed to the floor,
joined in groups, or flexible in arrangement), tables and chairs (as in a seminar room), or
similar types of seating. These spaces may contain multimedia or telecommunications
equipment. A classroom may be furnished with special equipment (e.g., globes, pianos,
maps, computers, network connections) appropriate to a specific area of study, if this
equipment does not render the space unsuitable for use by classes in other areas of study.
Limitations: This category does not include Conference Rooms (350), Meeting Rooms
(680), Auditoria (610), or Class Laboratories (210). Conference spaces and meeting
spaces are distinguished from seminar spaces according to primary use; spaces with
chairs and tables that are used primarily for meetings (as opposed to classes) are
conference spaces or meeting rooms (see Codes 350 and 680 for distinction). Auditoria
are distinguished from lecture rooms based on primary use. A large room with seating
oriented toward some focal point, and which is used for dramatic or musical productions,
is an Assembly (610) facility (e.g., an auditorium normally used for purposes other than
scheduled classes). A class laboratory is distinguished from a classroom based on
equipment in the space and by its restrictive use. If a space is restricted to a single or
closely related group of disciplines by special equipment or its configuration, it may be
logically considered as a laboratory (see Code 200 series). The evolution of computers
and instrumentation altered the restrictive nature of some equipment to a specific
discipline or application.
Classrooms are further subdivide based on the size in to the room types of Classroom Seminar (11005), Classroom - Discussion (11010) and Classroom - Lecture (11015) |
| 115 Classroom Service | A space that directly serves one or more classrooms as an extension of the
activities in that space.
Description: Includes projection rooms, telecommunications control booths, preparation
rooms, coat rooms, closets, storage areas, etc., if they serve classrooms.
Limitations: Does not include projection rooms, coat rooms, preparation rooms, closets,
or storage areas if such spaces serve laboratories, conference rooms, meeting rooms,
assembly facilities, etc. A projection booth in an auditorium (not used primarily for
scheduled classes) is classified as Assembly Service (615).
Classroom Sevice areas are further subdivided in to the room types of Classroom Service (11500), Classroom Service - Private Circulation (11545) abd Classroom Service - Private Toilet (11535) |
| 210 Class Laboratory | A space used primarily for formally or regularly scheduled instruction
(including associated mandatory, but non-credit-earning laboratories) that require special
purpose equipment or a specific space configuration for student participation,
experimentation, observation, or practice in an academic discipline. A space is
considered to be scheduled if the activities generate weekly student contact hours (WSCHs), the activities fulfill course requirements, and/or there is a formal convener present.
Description: A class laboratory is designed for or furnished with equipment to serve the
needs of a particular discipline for group instruction in formally or regularly scheduled
classes. This special equipment normally limits or precludes the space’s use by other
disciplines. Included in this category are spaces generally called teaching laboratories,
instructional shops, computer laboratories, drafting rooms, band rooms, choral rooms,
(group) music practice rooms, language laboratories, (group) studios, theater stage areas
used primarily for instruction, instructional health laboratories, and similar specially
designed or equipped rooms, if they are used primarily for group instruction in formally
or regularly scheduled classes. Computer rooms used primarily to instruct students in the
use of computers are classified as class laboratories if that instruction is conducted
primarily in formally or regularly scheduled classes.
Limitations: Does not include Classrooms (110). Does not include informally scheduled
or unscheduled laboratories (see Open Laboratory-220). This category does not include
spaces generally defined as Research/Nonclass Laboratories (250). It does not include
gymnasia, pools, drill halls, laboratory schools, demonstration houses, and similar
facilities that are included under Special Use Facilities (Code 500 series). Computer
rooms in libraries or used primarily for study should be classified as Study Rooms (410). |
| 215 Class Laboratory Service | A space that directly serves one or more class laboratories as an extension of
the activities in those spaces.
Description: Includes any space that directly serves a class laboratory. Included are
projection rooms, telecommunications control booths, coat rooms, preparation rooms,
closets, material storage (including temporary hazardous materials storage), balance
rooms, cold rooms, stock rooms, dark rooms, equipment issue rooms, etc., if they serve
class laboratories.
Limitations: Does not include service spaces that support a Classroom (see 115), Open
Laboratory (see 225), or a Research/Nonclass Laboratory (see 255). Animal Facilities
(570), Greenhouse (580), and Central Service (750) facilities are categorized separately. |
| 220 Open Laboratory | A laboratory used primarily for individual or group instruction that is
informally scheduled, unscheduled, or open.
Description: An open laboratory is designed for or furnished with equipment that serves
the needs of a particular discipline or discipline group for individual or group instruction
where 1) use of the space is not formally or regularly scheduled, or 2) access is limited
to specific groups of students. Included in this category are spaces generally called
music practice rooms, language laboratories used for individualized instruction, studios
for individualized instruction, special laboratories or learning laboratories (e.g., speech,
hearing, law, psychology, and health-related professions) if discipline restricted, individual laboratories, and computer laboratories involving specialized restrictive
software or where access is limited to specific categories of students. For example, a
computer laboratory with only engineering or CAD software or a computer-based
writing laboratory available only to English Composition students would be classified as
an open laboratory because of the restricted usage of the space for a particular discipline
or discipline group. Spaces containing computer equipment that is not restricted to a
specific discipline or discipline group are classified as Study Rooms (410) unless the
primary intent is to function as a site for structured learning or group activities rather
than individual knowledge acquisition.
Limitations: Laboratories with formally or regularly scheduled classes are classified as a
Class Laboratory (210). This category also does not include spaces defined as
Research/Nonclass Laboratory (250). A space that contains equipment (e.g.,
microcomputers), which does not restrict use to a specific discipline or discipline group
and which is typically used at a student’s convenience, should be classified as a Study
Room (410). |
| 225 Open Laboratory Service | A space that directly serves one or more open laboratories as an extension of
the activities in those spaces.
Description: Includes only those spaces that directly serve an open laboratory. Included
are projection rooms, telecommunications control booths, coat rooms, preparation
rooms, closets, material storage (including temporary hazardous materials storage),
balance rooms, cold rooms, stock rooms, dark rooms, equipment issue rooms, and
similar facilities, if they serve open laboratories.
Limitations: Does not include service spaces that support a Classroom (see 115), Class
Laboratory (see 215), or Research/Nonclass Laboratory (see 255). Animal Facilities
(570), Greenhouse (580), and Central Service (750) facilities are categorized separately. |
| 250 Research Laboratory | A space used for laboratory experimentation, research, or training in research
methods; professional research and observation; or structured creative activity within a
specific program or for sponsored research (whether sponsored with federal, state,
private, or institutional funds).
Description: A research/nonclass laboratory is designed or equipped for faculty, staff,
and students for the conduct of research and controlled or structured creative activities.
These activities are generally confined to faculty, staff, and assigned graduate students
and are applicable to any academic discipline. Activities may include experimentation,
application, observation, composition, or research training in a structured environment
directed by one or more faculty or principal investigators. These activities do not include
practice or independent study projects and activities that, although delivering new
knowledge to a student, are not intended for a broader academic (or sponsoring)
community (e.g., a presentation or publication). This category includes laboratories that
are used for experiments, testing, or dry runs in support of instructional, research, or
public service activities. Nonclass public service laboratories that promote new
knowledge in academic fields (e.g., animal diagnostic laboratories, cooperative
extension laboratories) are included in this category.
Limitations: Student practice activity rooms should be classified under Open Laboratory
(220). A combination office/music or art studio or combination office/research
laboratory should be coded according to its primary use if only a single space use code
can be applied. Determination also should be made whether the studio or research
lab component involves developing new knowledge (or extending the application or
distribution of existing knowledge) for a broader academic or sponsoring community
(and not merely for the practitioner), or the activity is merely practice or learning within
the applied instructional process. Primary use should be the determining criterion in
either case. Does not include testing or monitoring facilities (e.g., seed sampling, water
or environmental testing rooms) that are part of an institution’s Central Service (750)
system. Also does not include the often unstructured, spontaneous or improvisational
creative activities of learning and practice within the performing arts that take place in
(scheduled) Class Laboratories (210) or, if not specifically scheduled, (practice) Open
Laboratories (220). Such performing arts (and other science and nonscience) activities,
which are controlled or structured to the extent that they are intended to produce a
specific research or experimental outcome (e.g., a new or advanced technique), are
included in the Research/Nonclass Laboratory (250) category. |
| 255 Research Laboratory Service | A space that directly serves one or more research/nonclass laboratories as an
extension of the activities in those spaces.
Description: Includes only those spaces that directly serve a research/nonclass
laboratory. Included are projection rooms, telecommunications control booths, coat
rooms, preparation rooms, closets, material storage, balance rooms, cold rooms, stock
rooms, dark rooms, equipment issue rooms, temporary hazardous materials storage
areas, and similar facilities, if they serve research/nonclass laboratories.
Limitations: Does not include service spaces that support a Classrooms (see 115), Class
Laboratory (see 215), or Open Laboratory (see 225). Animal Facilities (570),
Greenhouse (580), and Central Service (750) facilities are categorized separately. |
| 310 Office | A space housing faculty, staff, or students working at one or more desks,
tables, or workstations.
Description: An office is typically assigned to one or more persons as a station or work
area. It may be equipped with desks, chairs, tables, bookcases, filing cabinets, computer
workstations, microcomputers, or other office equipment. Included are faculty,
administrative, clerical, graduate and teaching assistant, and student offices.
Limitations: Any other spaces, such as glass shops, printing shops, study rooms,
classrooms, research/nonclass laboratories, etc., that incidentally contain desk space for
a technician or staff member are classified according to the primary use of the space,
rather than as an office. Office areas do not need to have clearly visible physical
boundaries; examples include open reception areas and library staff areas that would not
otherwise be classified as Processing Rooms (440). In such cases, logical physical
boundaries (phantom walls) may be assigned to calculate square footage. An office is
differentiated from Office Service (315) by the latter’s use as a casual or intermittent
workstation or service room. For example, a space with a computer intermittently used
by one or more people having a separately assigned office should be coded as Office
Service (315). A combination office, studio, or research/nonclass laboratory should be
coded according to its primary use if multiple space use codes with prorations are not
used. A receptionist room that includes a waiting area should be coded as Office (310). |
| 315 Office Service | A space that directly serves an office or group of offices as an extension of
the activities in those spaces.
Description: Includes file rooms, break rooms, kitchenettes serving office areas, copy
and fax rooms, vaults, closets, private rest rooms not available to the public, records
rooms, office supply rooms, first aid rooms serving office areas, student counseling
rooms and testing (assessment, nonhealth, non-discipline-related) rooms, and open and
private (restricted/nonpublic) circulation areas.
Limitations: Waiting, interview, and testing spaces are included as Office Service if they
serve a specific office or office area and not a classroom laboratory or clinic. A student
counseling (nonhealth) testing room should be coded as Office Service (315). A receptionist room that includes a waiting area should be coded as Office (310). Lounges
that serve specific office areas and that are not generally available to the public should
be coded as Office Service (315). Centralized mail rooms, shipping or receiving areas,
and duplicating or printing shops that serve more than one building (or department or
school, etc.) or that are campus-wide in scope should be classified Central Service (750).
Does not include Unit Storage (780). |
| 350 Conference Room | A space serving an office complex and used primarily for staff meetings and
departmental activities.
Description: A conference space is typically equipped with tables and chairs. Normally
it is used by a specific organizational unit or office area, whereas Meeting Rooms (680)
are used for general purposes such as community or campus group meetings not
associated with a particular department. If a space is used for both conference and
meeting space functions, then the space should be classified according to its principal
use. A conference space is distinguished from facilities such as seminar rooms, lecture
rooms, and Classrooms (110) because it is used primarily for activities other than
scheduled classes. A conference space is intended primarily for formal gatherings,
whereas a lounge is intended for relaxation and casual interaction. This category
includes teleconference spaces.
Limitations: Does not include classrooms, seminar rooms, lecture rooms (see
Classrooms-110), auditoria (see Assembly-610), departmental lounges (see Office
Service-315), open lounges (see Lounge-650), and Meeting Rooms (680). |
| 355 Conference Service | A space that directly serves one or more conference spaces as an extension of
the activities in those spaces.
Description: Includes kitchenettes, storage spaces, telecommunications control booths,
projection rooms, sound equipment rooms, etc., if they serve conference spaces.
Limitations: Excluded are service spaces that support meeting spaces (see Meeting
Room Service-685) or offices (see Office Service-315). |
| 410 Study Room | A room or area used by individuals to study at their convenience, the space
not being restricted to a particular subject or discipline by contained equipment.
Description: Includes study or reading rooms located in libraries, residential facilities,
academic or student service facilities, study carrel and booth areas, and similar spaces
that are intended for general study purposes. Study stations may be grouped, as in a
library reading room, or individualized, as in a carrel. Study stations may include
computers, typewriters, microform readers, CD and DVD players, or other multimedia
equipment. The category Study Space includes spaces commonly termed learning labs
or computer labs if they are not restricted to specific disciplines by contained
equipment or software. Study spaces are primarily used by students or staff for learning
at their convenience, although access may be restricted by a controlling unit (e.g.,
departmental study room).
Limitations: Does not include Open Laboratories (220) that are restricted to a particular
discipline or discipline group. This category also does not include Lounges (650) that are
intended for relaxation and casual interaction.
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| 420 Stack | A space used to house arranged collections of educational materials for use
as a study resource.
Description: Stacks typically appear in central, branch, or departmental libraries and are
characterized by accessible, arranged, and managed collections. Collections can include
books, periodicals, journals, monographs, micromaterials, electronic storage media (e.g.,
tapes, disks, slides, etc.), musical scores, maps, and other educational materials.
Limitations: Does not include general storage areas for such materials that serve a
particular room or area; such spaces would take the appropriate service code. Examples
of these service spaces include tape storage rooms for language laboratories (see Open
Laboratory Service-225), book storage rooms for classrooms (see Classroom Service-
115), and music for general listening enjoyment (see Recreation Service-675). Also does
not include collections of educational materials, regardless of form or type (i.e., from
books to soils collections), that are for Exhibition (620) use rather than for study or reference. |
| 430 Open-Stack Study Room | A combination study space and stack, generally without physical boundaries
between the stack and study areas.
Description: Seating areas include those types of station and seating arrangements
described under Study Room (410). The stack areas of these spaces may include any of
the educational material collections described under Stack (420).
Limitations: Does not include Study Rooms (410) that have no stack areas. Those stack
areas that have only a few incidental chairs or other seating, without a formally arranged
study seating area, should be coded Stack (420). Institutions may wish to separate and
code the seating or study areas (see Study Room-410) and Stack areas (see Stack-420)
into separate space records. As with Stack (420) and Processing Rooms (440), Open-
Stack Study Rooms (430) appear primarily in central, branch, and departmental libraries. |
| 440 Processing Room | A room or area devoted to processes and operations in support of library
functions.
Description: A processing room is intended for specific library operations that support
the overall library mission. Included are card and microfiche areas, reference desk and
circulation desk areas, bookbinding rooms, multimedia materials processing areas,
interlibrary loan processing areas, and other areas with a specific process or operation in
support of library functions.
Limitations: Areas that serve both as office stations and processing rooms should be
coded according to primary use. Small incidental processing areas in larger stack or
study areas should be included within the larger primary activity category (see Codes
410, 420, and 430). Does not include typical support spaces that serve study and other
primary activity areas, such as storage rooms, copy rooms, closets, and other servicetype
spaces (see Code 455). Acquisitions work areas with a primary office use should be
classified as Office (310). |
| 455 Study Service | A space that directly serves study spaces, stacks, open-stack study spaces, or
processing rooms as a direct extension of the activities in those spaces.
Description: Includes storage spaces, copy rooms, closets, locker rooms, coat rooms,
and other typical service areas that support a primary study facilities room (see Codes
410, 420, 430, and 440). With the increasing implementation of wireless technology,
service areas are migrating into the primary study space and stacks. Campuses need to
adopt a consistent approach to using either predominate use or phantom walls to allow
for the separation of service space. An example would be space occupied by routers,
servers, or battery-charging equipment on the open floor of a library or student center.
Limitations: Does not include Processing Rooms (440) that house specific library
support processes and operations (e.g., bookbinding rooms, multimedia processing
rooms). |
| 510 Armory | A room or area used by Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) and
ancillary units for military training and/or instructional activities.
Description: Spaces that are obviously designed or equipped for use in a military
training or instructional program, such as indoor drill areas, indoor rifle ranges, and
specially designed or equipped military science rooms, are included in this category.
Ancillary units may include special rifle and drill teams.
Limitations: Conventional space use types such as Classrooms (110), Class Laboratories
(210), Offices (310), and Study Rooms (410) are designated as such, even though they
are located in an armory building. Military supply and weapons rooms are coded
Armory Service (515). |
| 515 Armory Service | A space that directly serves an armory facility as an extension of the
activities in that facility.
Description: This category includes supply rooms, weapons rooms, and military
equipment storage rooms.
Limitations: Spaces directly serving conventional primary activity areas are classified
with the appropriate corresponding service code, e.g., Classroom Service (115), Class
Laboratory Service (215), Office Service (315), and Study Service (455). |
| 520 Athletic or Physical Education | A room or area used by students, staff, or the public for athletic or physical
education activities.
Description: Includes gymnasia, basketball courts, handball courts, squash courts,
wrestling rooms, weight or exercise rooms, racquetball courts, indoor swimming pools, indoor putting areas, indoor ice rinks, indoor tracks, indoor stadium fields, and field
houses. This category includes spaces used for dancing and bowling.
Limitations: This space use code does not distinguish instructional from intercollegiate,
intramural, or recreational use of these areas.
Classroom Facilities (Code 100 series), Laboratory Facilities (Code 200 series), Office
Facilities (Code 300 series), and other primary space use categories are coded as such,
even though these areas may be located in an athletic or physical education building.
Permanent covered spectator seating areas associated with athletic facilities are coded
Athletic Facilities Spectator Seating (523). Outdoor athletic areas, such as outdoor tennis
and basketball courts, archery ranges, golf courses, and other outdoor fields, do not meet
the definition of buildings and, therefore, are not assignable areas. Recreational or
amusement areas such as billiards rooms, game or arcade rooms, table tennis rooms,
chess and card playing rooms, and hobby and music listening areas are classified
Recreation (670).
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| 523 Athletic Facilities Spectator Seating | The covered seating area used by students, staff, or the public to watch
athletic events.
Description: Includes covered permanent or fixed seating areas in gymnasia, field
houses, ice arenas, covered stadia, natatoria, and cycling arenas.
Limitations: Does not include temporary or movable seating areas (e.g., movable
bleachers). Uncovered permanent seating is not assignable space although space below it
may contain assignable areas (e.g., locker rooms, offices, etc.). |
| 525 Athletic or Physical Education Service | A space that directly serves an athletic or physical education facility as an extension of the activities in that facility.Description: Includes locker rooms; shower rooms; nonoffice coaches’ rooms; ticket booths; and spaces for dressing, equipment, supply, storage, first aid, skate-sharpening, towels, etc. Limitations: Does not include public rest rooms, which should be classified as nonassignable building service space. Spaces that directly serve offices, classrooms, laboratories, etc., are classified with the appropriate corresponding service code. Cashiers’ desks serving recreation facilities (see Recreation-670) are classified Recreation Service (675). Central ticket outlets serving multiple facilities or services are classified as Merchandising (660). |
| 530 Media Production | A space used for the production or distribution of multimedia materials or
signals.
Description: Includes spaces generally called TV studios, radio studios, sound studios,
photo studios, video or audio cassette and software production or distribution rooms, and
media centers. These spaces have a clearly defined production or distribution function
that serves a broader area (e.g., department, entire campus) than would a typical service
room. Include electronic visualization studios or facilities in this category if the primary
use is the production of media rather than a student-focused learning experience.
Limitations: Does not include spaces that merely store media materials and equipment.
Such spaces would be coded as Media Production Service (535) spaces if serving the
primary production or distribution room, or the appropriate service category for space(s)
they serve. Radio or TV broadcasting areas, simulation laboratories, and other media
spaces used for teaching broadcasting to students should be coded as laboratories (see
Class Laboratory-210, or Open Laboratory-220). This classification also does not
include centralized computer-based data processing and telecommunications equipment
facilities (see Central Computer or Telecommunications-710). |
| 535 Media Production Service | A space that directly serves a media production or distribution space as an
extension of the activities in that facility.
Description: The primary criterion here is that the space should serve a media
production or distribution space and not another primary activity space. Examples
include film, tape, or cassette libraries or storage areas; media equipment storage rooms;
recording rooms; engineering maintenance rooms; dark rooms; preparation rooms;
studio control booths; and other support areas that specifically serve a media production
or distribution room (see Media Production-530).
Limitations: Those spaces containing media materials, equipment, or operations that
serve other than a Media Production (530) primary activity space should be assigned the
appropriate corresponding service code. |
| 540 Clinic-Non Health | A space used for providing diagnosis, consultation, treatment, or other
services to patients or clients or subjects with a primary purpose of instruction, research,
or public service.
Description: Included are examination rooms, testing rooms, consultation rooms, and
holding areas. Such spaces and their related uses are typically associated with
educational programs such as psychology, law, speech, and hearing.
Limitations: Does not include spaces used for remedial instruction that should be
classified as classrooms or laboratories (see Codes 100 and 200 series), testing or
counseling rooms in nonhealth or non-discipline-related programs (see Office Service-
315), or Health Care Facilities (see Code 800 series). |
| 545 Clinic-Non Health Service | A space that directly serves a clinic as an extension of the activities in that
space.
Description: Included are waiting rooms, observation rooms, control rooms, records
rooms, diagnostic laboratories, and similar supporting spaces.
Limitations: Does not include spaces that serve health care facilities (see Code 800
series). Also does not include first aid treatment rooms that serve other primary activity
areas, e.g., Athletic or Physical Education Service (525), Day Care Service (645). |
| 550 Demonstration | A room or group of spaces used to practice, within an instructional program,
the principles of certain disciplines such as teaching, child care or development, and
family and consumer science.
Description: The key criterion here is practice activity within an instructional program
that closely simulates a real-world or occupational setting. Includes demonstration day
care and development centers, laboratory schools, and family and consumer science
houses when these facilities are used for practice as a part of postsecondary training or
instruction.
Limitations: Does not include day care and development centers that are not used as part
of an instructional program (see Day Care-640). This category also does not include
laboratories (see Code 200 series) that are used for direct delivery of instruction as
opposed to practice. Demonstration schools, laboratory schools, day care centers, and
family and consumer science houses in which students serve as the subjects for a
research study are classified as Research/Nonclass Laboratories (250). |
| 555 Demonstration Service | A space that directly serves a demonstration facility as an extension of the
activities in that facility.
Description: Includes facilities generally called storerooms, pantries, etc., in a family
and consumer science facility; and kitchens, lockers, shower rooms, etc., in a laboratory
school. Similar support spaces that directly serve primary care and training areas in a
demonstration day care center (see Demonstration-550) are included in this category.
Limitations: Generally, the primary activity areas such as kitchen, dining room, living
room (in a family and consumer science house), or classrooms, laboratories, gymnasia
that serve nursery, elementary, or secondary school students (in a laboratory school)
should be designated as Demonstration (550). Primary care and training areas in a
(practice) day care center are also Demonstration (550) spaces. Kitchen and food
preparation spaces in a demonstration day care facility are classified as service areas.
Eating or break rooms for staff in demonstration day care centers are classified as
service areas other than Demonstration Service (555); eating or training spaces for
children are classified as primary activity areas, Demonstration (550).
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| 560 Field Building | A barn or similar agricultural structure used for animal shelters or for the
handling, storage, or protection of farm products, supplies, vehicles, or implements.
Description: Includes barns, animal and poultry shelters, sheds, silos, feed units, and hay
storage. Structures are typically of light-frame construction with unfinished interiors and
are frequently located outside the central campus area. Also includes storage space for
farm vehicles and implements. Service areas that support field buildings are classified
within this category.
Limitations: Animal facilities directly supporting research or instructional laboratories
should be coded Animal Facilities (570). Location of a building, on or off the main
campus, is not sufficient justification for classification as a field building. Finished
spaces with other uses (e.g., laboratories, classrooms, etc.) should be coded as
appropriate. Does not include buildings that house nonagricultural or non-farm-related
vehicles (see Vehicle Storage-740). |
| 570 Animal Facilities | A space that houses laboratory animals used for research and/or instructional
purposes.
Description: Includes animal rooms; cage rooms; stalls; wards; and procedure,
operating, recovery, isolation, quarantine, and similar spaces for instruction and
research.
Limitations: Animal Facilities are typically subject to the rules and regulations of
agencies regarding the care and use of laboratory animals (e.g., requirements of the
American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC)). Does
not include agricultural field buildings sheltering animals that do not directly support
instruction or research (see Field Building-560). Does not include areas that directly
serve facilities used for the treatment of animals (see Treatment/Examination Clinic
850). |
| 575 Animal Facility Service | A space that directly serves an animal quarters facility as an extension of the
activities in that facility.
Description: Includes feed storage rooms, feed mixing rooms, cage washing rooms, cage
storage rooms, casting rooms, instrument rooms, and internal (nonpublic) circulation
space.
Limitations: Does not include areas that directly serve facilities used for the treatment of
animals (see Treatment/Examination Clinic-850).
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| 580 Greenhouse | A building or space, usually composed chiefly of glass, plastic, or other
light-transmitting material, that is used for the cultivation or protection of plants or
seedlings for research, instruction, or campus physical maintenance or improvement
purposes.
Description: The primary criterion here is the combination of structural design as a
greenhouse and the use for cultivation or protection. An example would be a greenhouse
that serves as a laboratory or service area for a botany or other (e.g., horticulture)
educational program. This category includes any facility serving the greenhouse function
(e.g., warehouse facilities equipped with special lighting controls for the cultivation or
protection of plants).
Limitations: Greenhouses that are not used for plant cultivation or protection should be
classified according to specific use (e.g., a greenhouse used for central storage should be
coded Central Storage-730).
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| 585 Greenhouse Service | A space that directly serves a greenhouse facility as an extension of the
activities in that facility.
Description: Includes equipment or materials storage areas and rooms generally called
headhouses.
Limitations: Excludes storage areas that do not directly serve greenhouses. |
| 590 Police Facility | A space that houses campus security or police department. |
| 610 Assembly | A space designed and equipped for the assembly of many persons for such
events as dramatic, musical, devotional, livestock judging, or commencement activities.
Description: Includes theaters, auditoria, concert halls, arenas, chapels, and livestock
judging pavilions that are used primarily for general presentations (speakers),
performances (dramatic, musical, dance), and devotional services. Seating areas,
orchestra pits, chancels, aisles, and stages (if not used primarily for instruction) are
included in and usually aggregated into the assembly space. This category also includes
chapels located in health care, residential, or other facilities. Institutions may wish to
separate the seating area from the stage and other specially configured areas through the
use of additional codes.
Limitations: Stage areas used primarily for instruction or practice (dance, music,
drama) are typically coded separately as laboratory space (see Codes 210, 220).
Assembly facilities that are used primarily as instructional lecture halls are classified as
Classroom (110) space. |
| 615 Assembly Service | A room or area that directly serves an assembly facility as an extension of
the activities in that facility.
Description: Includes check rooms, coat rooms, ticket booths, dressing rooms,
projection booths, property storage, make-up rooms, costume and scenery shops and
storage, green rooms, multimedia and telecommunications control rooms, etc.
Limitations: Entrance lobbies and other circulation areas outside of the primary
assembly room are classified as nonassignable Lobby (W05). A concession stand in an
assembly facility is classified as Merchandising (660). Lounge areas that are remote
from the assembly area within an assembly facility are classified by the appropriate
service code or the Lounge (650) code. |
| 620 Exhibition | A room or area used for exhibition of materials, works of art, artifacts, etc.,
and intended for general use by faculty, students, staff, and the public.
Description: Includes both departmental and institution-wide museums, galleries, and
similar exhibition areas that are used to display materials and items for viewing by the
institutional population and the public. Planetariums used primarily for exhibition are
also included in this category. Planetariums used primarily for research should be
classified in the Laboratory Facilities (Code 200) series.
Limitations: Displays that are intended only for instructional purposes and not for
general exhibitions (e.g., departmental instructional displays of anthropological,
botanical, or geological specimens) should be classified as laboratory or laboratory
service (see Laboratory Facilities-200 series). Does not include bulletin boards and
similar temporary or incidental displays in hallways, student centers, etc. Also does not
include collections of educational materials, regardless of form or type (e.g., books,
tapes, soils collections), that are study resources (see Stack-420) as opposed to
exhibition use. |
| 625 Exhibition Service | A space that directly serves an exhibition facility as an extension of the
activities in that facility.
Description: Includes preparation workrooms, storage rooms, vaults, etc., that serve
general exhibition areas (see Exhibition-620).
Limitations: Research areas in museums are classified as Research/Nonclass Laboratory
(250) or Research/Nonclass Laboratory Service (255). Service areas for displays that are
part of an instructional program are classified as Classroom Service (115) or Laboratory
Facilities service areas (see Code 200 series). |
| 630 Food Facility | A space used for eating.
Description: Includes dining halls, cafeterias, snack bars, restaurants, and similar eating
areas, including such areas in residence halls, faculty clubs, etc. This category includes
facilities open to students, faculty, staff, or the public at large. The primary distinction of
a Food Facility (630) area is the availability of some form of accommodation (seating,
counters, tables) for eating or drinking. This is, therefore, an area intended for the actual
consumption of food and drink. Vending areas with seating, counters, or tables and sitdown
lunch or vending spaces that serve a shop facility are included in this category.
Limitations: Vending areas not provided with seating, counters, or tables are classified
as Merchandising (660) or with the appropriate service code if the vending directly
supports or is adjacent to a specific space for consuming the products (e.g., a Code 635
vending space serving a Code 630 dining hall).
Limitations: Lounges (650) with vending machines that are incidental to the primary use
of the space (i.e., relaxation) are coded as part of the lounge, if within the space, or as
Lounge Service (655) if separate from and directly supporting the main lounge facility
(see Lounge-650). Break rooms serving specific office areas are classified as Office
Service (315). Eating areas for children in demonstration or day care facilities are
classified as primary activity categories within these respective areas (see
Demonstration-550 and Day Care-640); staff-only eating or break rooms in these
facilities are classified as service areas (see Demonstration Service-555 and Day Care
Service-645 |
| 635 Food Facility Service | A space that directly serves a food facility as an extension of the activities in
that facility.
Description: Includes kitchens and other preparation areas, cold storage and freezer
refrigeration rooms, dishwashing rooms, food serving areas, cleaning areas, etc. Includes
first aid and vending areas directly serving food facilities, or adjacent to an eating area.
Limitations: Does not include any type of food preparation space that does not serve a
food facility or eating area (see Food Facility-630). Kitchenettes in residence facilities
that do not serve a dining area are classified as Sleep/Study Service (935). Service areas
for vending spaces are classified as Merchandising Service (665). Kitchens and food
preparation areas in demonstration or day care facilities are classified as service areas for
those facilities (see Demonstration Service-555 and Day Care Service-645). |
| 640 Day Care | A space used to provide day or night, child or elderly adult care as a
nonmedical service to members of the institutional community.
Description: Includes all primary activity spaces that provide oversight, supervision,
developmental training, and general personal care for assigned children or adults (e.g.,
play areas, nonstaff eating areas, and child training spaces). This type of facility serves
as a central service center for faculty, staff, and students, with members of the
community being served as needed. This is not a medical care facility (i.e., medical
attention is strictly limited to maintaining prescribed medication schedules and providing
first aid).
Limitations: Does not include those support spaces (e.g., storage rooms, closets, and
pantries) typically used as service spaces (see Day Care Service-645). This category also
does not include demonstration houses, laboratory schools, or other facilities with a
primary function of providing practice for postsecondary students as part of the
instructional process (see Demonstration-550). Also excluded from this category are
those service areas classified as Central Service (750), and Laboratory Facilities (Code
200 series) that directly support instruction (e.g., vocational training programs for parent
education and early childhood education). |
| 645 Day Care Service | A space that directly serves a primary activity space in a day care facility as
an extension of the activities in that space.
Description: Includes storage rooms, closets, kitchens or food preparation areas,
pantries, private or staff-only eating areas and rest rooms, and other typical service
spaces that support a primary activity area.
Limitations: Does not include those spaces (e.g., child training spaces, playrooms—see
Day Care-640) where primary day care activities are conducted. Rest rooms designed for
child training should be coded Day Care (640). Eating or training areas for children are
classified as primary Day Care (640) activity space. Staff office areas should be coded as
Office (310). |
| 650 Lounge | A space used for rest and relaxation that is not restricted to a specific group
of people, unit, or area.
Description: A lounge facility is typically equipped with upholstered furniture,
draperies, and carpeting, and may include vending machines. This general use lounge
differs from an office area or break room lounge (see Office Service-315) by virtue of its
public availability. If a space is equipped with more than one or two seats for a seating
area and intended for use by people visiting or passing through a building or area, it is
coded as a Lounge (650). Such a space may have vending machines even though the
primary use of the space is rest, relaxation, or informal socializing, not eating.
Limitations: A lounge facility is distinguished from a Conference Room (350) and a
Meeting Room (680), both of which are intended for formal meetings, by its more
informal function of rest, relaxation, or casual interaction and its public availability. A
lounge area associated with a public rest room is included with the rest room as
nonassignable (building service area) space. A space devoted to vending machines
without accommodation (seating, counters, or tables) for local food or drink
consumption is classified as Merchandising (660). A lounge that directly serves a
specific or restricted area is classified by the appropriate corresponding service code
(e.g., a lounge serving an assembly facility is classified Assembly Service-615). A
lounge differs from a nonassignable lobby in placement, use, and intent. A Lobby (W05)
is generally located at a major entrance with openings to either hallways on more than
one side or in front of elevator banks; and although it may have seating furniture, it is
designed more for passing through (or having standing conversations) than for sitting
and relaxing. Separate waiting rooms in other than health care facilities are classified
with the appropriate service code according to the room or area they serve. A
receptionist room that includes a waiting area should be classified as Office (310).
Public waiting areas in health care facilities are coded as Public Waiting (880). |
| 655 Lounge Service | A space that directly serves a general use lounge facility.
Description: Includes kitchenettes, storage areas, and vending spaces that directly serve
a general use Lounge (650).
Limitations: This category does not include kitchenettes, storage rooms, and small
vending areas that directly serve other space use types (e.g., a small vending area serving
a dining hall eating area should be classified as Food Facility Service-635). |
| 660 Merchandising | A space used to sell products or services.
Description: Includes product and service sales areas such as bookstores, student supply
stores, barber or beauty shops, post offices, campus food stores, walk-away vending
machine spaces, and central ticket outlets servicing multiple facilities or activities.
Limitations: Does not include dining rooms, restaurants, snack bars, and similar Food
Facilities (630). A vending machine space that directly serves a dining, lounge, or other
primary activity area is classified with the appropriate service code; a vending machine
area within a general use lounge is included in the Lounge (650) space. Vending areas
that include accommodations (seating, counters, or tables) for consuming the products
are classified as Food Facility (630). Meeting and conference rooms in hotels or motels
are classified as Meeting Rooms (680). Sleeping rooms in hotels or motels are classified
in the appropriate category of Residential Facilities (Code 900 series). Cashiers’ desks
that serve a specific recreational facility or area are classified as service space for that
area (see Codes 670 and 675). Day care centers used for practice within an instructional
program are classified as Demonstration (550). Day care centers that are not part of such
a program are classified under Day Care (640). |
| 665 Merchandising Service | A space that directly serves a merchandising facility as an extension of the
activities in that facility.
Description: Includes storage rooms and closets, sorting rooms, private rest rooms, and
other support spaces if they directly serve a Merchandising (660) facility.
Limitations: Storage rooms, sorting rooms, and private rest rooms that do not serve a
merchandising area should be classified using the appropriate service code for the
corresponding space use type. |
| 670 Recreation | A space used by students, staff, or the public for recreational purposes.
Description: Includes exercise and general fitness rooms, billiards rooms, game and
arcade rooms, table tennis rooms, chess rooms, card playing rooms, hobby rooms, TV
rooms, reading (nonstudy) rooms, and music listening rooms that are used for recreation
and amusement and not for instructional purposes. Recreation rooms and areas are used
for relaxation, amusement-type activities, whereas athletic facilities are typically used
for the more vigorous pursuits within physical education, intercollegiate athletics, and
intramural programs that typically require specialized configuration.
Limitations: Does not include gymnasia, basketball courts, weight rooms, racquetball
courts, handball courts, squash courts, wrestling rooms, indoor swimming pools, indoor
ice rinks, indoor tracks, indoor stadium fields, indoor golf and other areas primarily used
for physical education, and intramural or intercollegiate athletic activities (see Code
520). Outdoor athletic and physical education fields, courts, and other nonenclosed areas
are also excluded because they are not building space. This category also does not
include bowling alleys, dance rooms, or any other activity areas that are primarily used
for instruction. Reading or media use rooms that are designed and intended as study
spaces are also excluded from this category (see Code 410).
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| 675 Recreation Service | A space that directly serves a recreation facility as an extension of the
activities in that facility.
Description: Includes storage rooms, closets, equipment issue rooms, cashiers’ desks,
first aid, and other support areas that directly serve a Recreation (670) facility.
Limitations: Does not include kitchens, snack bars, or other Food Facilities (630) and
Food Facility Service (635) areas. Locker rooms, shower rooms, ticket booths, dressing
rooms, equipment rooms, and other areas directly serving Athletic or Physical Education
(520) facilities are classified as Athletic or Physical Education Service (525) rooms.
Central ticket outlets serving multiple facilities or services are classified as
Merchandising (660). |
| 680 Meeting Room | A room that is used by the institution or the public for a variety of nonclass
meetings.
Description: The key concept here is public availability. Conference Rooms (350) are
often confused with meeting spaces because they are both primarily used for nonclass
meetings. However, conference spaces are restricted service components of an office
complex or used by office occupants of a specific area and are generally limited to staff
meetings or other departmental nonclass activities. Although it may be assigned to a
specific organizational unit, a meeting space is more available and open to study groups,
boards, governing groups, community groups, various student groups, nonemployees of
the institution, and various combinations of institutional and community members.
Meeting spaces in institutional hotels or motels and other for-fee meeting spaces are
included in this category. Meeting spaces may be configured like classrooms (i.e., with participant focus to the front of the room), or may be equipped with a variety of furniture types (e.g., tables and
chairs, lounge-type furniture, tablet armchairs, or a large table) in various combinations
and arrangements.
Limitations: Spaces serving an office complex and used primarily for staff meetings are
classified as Conference Room (350). Seminar and lecture rooms used primarily for
scheduled classes are classified as Classroom (110). Spaces designed and equipped for
the assembly of many persons for such events as dramatic, musical or devotional
activities, etc., should be classified as Assembly (610). |
| 685 Meeting Room Service | A space that serves a meeting space as an extension of the activities in that
space.
Description: Includes kitchenettes, multimedia storage and control rooms, furniture
storage rooms, and other support spaces that directly serve a meeting space.
Limitations: Does not include kitchenettes, storage rooms, and other support areas that
serve a Conference Room (350) or an Assembly (610) facility. |
| 710 Central Computer/Telecom | A space used as a data or telecommunications center with applications that
are broad enough to serve the overall administrative or academic primary equipment
needs of a central group of users, department, college, school, or entire institution.
Description: A Central Computer or Telecommunications room or a Secured
Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) may be one of a group of spaces that
constitute a center for delivering data processing or telecommunications services to
various levels of user groups. Although the ongoing primary activity of this category is
tied more closely to equipment than human activity, these areas require technical support
staff, and physical access may be restricted to these personnel. These central equipment
spaces appear most frequently at the campus-wide and large organizational unit levels
and are generally subject to environmental and security controls and procedures limiting
users to remote access. Includes central rooms housing a computer or computers (e.g.,
large mainframe, server farms, etc.), peripheral input (e.g., data entry terminals, tape or
disk drives, data reading equipment, monitors, etc.), and output devices (e.g., printers,
output tape or disk drives, etc.). This category also includes spaces in a central computer
complex that are primarily or exclusively dedicated to data or program code entry or job
submissions through one or more terminals.
Computer-based telecommunications equipment rooms, ranging from micro-driven LAN
(local area) to the larger PBX (private branch) network centers and hubs, including
central spaces housing satellite signal reception or transmission equipment, should be
assigned the 710 code. This equipment may be dedicated to data, audio or telephone,
video, or any combination of these electronic transmissions.
Limitations: Does not include Office (310) space assigned to programmers, analysts,
engineers, data entry personnel, and other technical staff, even though these spaces
usually contain an access terminal. Also does not include instructional laboratories and
study spaces equipped with personal computers or terminals (see Class Laboratory-210,
Open Laboratory-220, Study Room-410), or Offices (310) with data processing
equipment used as office tools. Personal computer or terminal work spaces and printer
rooms that serve an office area should be coded Office Service (315). Small closet areas
housing telecommunications equipment and wiring that are not used by technical or
support staff on a regular basis (i.e., repair or modification only) should be classified as
nonassignable mechanical space (see Utility/Mechanical Space-Y04). |
| 715 Computer/Telecom. Service | A space that directly serves a central computer or telecommunications
facility as an extension of the activities in that facility.
Description: Includes paper and forms storage, off-line tape and disk storage, separate
control or console rooms or booths, tool and parts rooms, bursting and decollating
rooms, areas used to store only inactive support equipment (e.g., multiplexers, modems,
spoolers, etc.), and separate areas used for delivering tapes or picking up printouts. Also
includes the repair and assembly rooms that directly serve the central computer or
telecommunications facility.
Limitations: Does not include Office (310) areas for personnel (technicians, engineers,
analysts, programmers) assigned to the central computer facility, primary equipment
(computer, I/O device) rooms (see Central Computer or Telecommunications-710), and
office areas containing data processing or networking office service equipment or
materials (see Office-310, Office Service-315). Also does not include spaces directly
supporting study spaces (see Study Service-455) or laboratories (see Code 200 series)
that contain special computer equipment used for study, instruction, or research. A
nonoffice workroom containing a remote printer or data/job entry terminal that is part of
an office area, and not the central computer facility, should be coded Office Service
(315). A printer room serving a general purpose terminal room in a dormitory should be
classified as Study Service (455). |
| 720 Shop | A space used for the manufacture, repair, or maintenance of products or
equipment.
Description: Includes carpenter, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, and painting shops, and
similar physical plant maintenance facilities. This category also includes centralized
shops for construction or repair of research or instructional equipment, and repair and
maintenance of multimedia equipment and devices. Special purpose shops (e.g., glass
blowing, machining) supporting multiple spaces for scientific instruction and research
are included in this category.
Limitations: Does not include instructional shops (i.e., industrial arts or vocationaltechnical
shops used for instruction), which should be classified as Laboratory Facilities
(200 series). Facilities used for producing and distributing multimedia materials and
signals are classified as Media Production (530). Architectural and engineering drafting
rooms serving the facilities management operation are classified as Office (310).
Blueprint storage rooms are classified as Office Service (315). Small, incidental
equipment repair, assembly, or cleaning rooms that directly serve an adjacent or nearby
primary activity room should be classified according to the appropriate corresponding
service code. This category also does not include areas used for the repair and
maintenance of institution-owned vehicles (see Vehicle Storage Service-745) or spaces
directly serving media production or distribution areas (see Media Production Service-
535). Also excludes costume and scene shops serving theater areas (see Assembly
Service-615). Greenhouses used for campus physical maintenance or improvements
should be coded 580. |
| 725 Shop Service | A space that directly serves a shop facility as an extension of the activities in
that facility.
Description: Includes tool storage rooms, materials storage rooms, and similar
equipment or material supply or storage rooms. Locker, shower, first aid, and similar
nonpublic areas that serve the shop facility should be included.
Limitations: Does not include service areas for Class Laboratories (210) or
Research/Nonclass Laboratories (250). Also does not include vehicular repair facilities
(i.e., garages) classified as Vehicle Storage Service (745). Blueprint storage rooms
should be classified as Office Service (315). Spaces directly serving media production or
distribution facilities are coded Media Production Service (535). Sit-down lunch or
vending spaces that serve a shop facility are classified Food Facility (630). |
| 730 Central Storage | A space or building that is used to store equipment or materials and that
serves multiple space use categories, organizational units, or buildings.
Description: The concept of central or general is key to applying this code correctly.
The vast majority of storage spaces on a campus are service rooms that directly support
a primary activity room or room group; for example, a paper storage room (see Office
Service-315) can serve several Offices (310) in an area. Service storage rooms are
somewhat closer to the areas they serve and are used more than occasionally. Central
storage areas include areas commonly called warehouses, surplus storage, central
campus supply or storage, and inactive storage. A storage space used to store bulk
janitorial supplies would be included in this category. It also includes storage rooms in a
building or building area that serve multiple space use categories and that are used for
general or surplus (e.g., furniture, equipment) collection or storage. The 730 code can
usually be used for all assignable storage areas that do not qualify as service spaces.
Limitations: Does not include a storage space directly serving a primary space use
category or group of such spaces (i.e., a space that is clearly a service space). Also, this
category does not include the nonassignable Custodial Supply Closet (X01) used to store
small quantities of janitorial supplies, or any other category codes within the
nonassignable Circulation Areas (WWW), Building Service Areas (XXX), or
Mechanical Areas (YYY). Offices within warehouses or other central storage buildings
are coded as Office (310). Centralized food stores and laundries are classified Central
Service (750). Compact storage facilities for library materials are excluded from this
category unless they are incorporated into a larger central storage facility serving
multiple units and functions. |
| 735 Central Storage Service | A space that directly serves a central storage facility as an extension of the
activities in that facility.
Description: Central storage service spaces are typically limited to support rooms
associated with the transporting of materials in and out of large central storage facilities
and warehouses. Storage spaces for hand trucks and other moving equipment, shelving
storage, and other spaces supporting the central storage function are included.
Limitations: Only those spaces directly supporting the (usually) larger Central Storage
(730) area should be classified with this code. |
| 740 Vehicle Storage | A space or structure that is used to house or store vehicles.
Description: Includes structures, buildings, and spaces generally called parking decks,
garages, boathouses, and airplane hangars. The definition of vehicle is broadly
interpreted here to include forklifts, moving equipment, lawn equipment, and other
powered transport devices or equipment, as well as automobiles and trucks. Also
included is the covered circulation area required for the vehicles to enter, maneuver
while within, and exit the parking structures.
Limitations: This category does not include unroofed surface parking lots. It also does
not include structures that house or store farm vehicles and implements (see Code 560).
(See Parking Structure, section 3.2.10, for suggested classification of parking structures.) |
| 745 Vehicle Storage Service | A space that directly serves a vehicle storage facility as an extension of the
activities in that facility.
Description: Includes any areas or rooms directly serving a vehicle storage facility, such
as storage rooms and areas used for maintenance and repair of automotive equipment,
boats, airplanes, and other vehicles as defined in Vehicle Storage (740).
Limitations: Does not include shops as defined in Shop (720) (e.g., carpenter, plumbing,
electrical, painting, etc.). Offices within a Vehicle Storage facility should be classified as
Office (310). |
| 750 Central Service | A room or area that is used for the processing, preparation, testing, or
delivery of a complex-central or campus-wide support service.
Description: The central service delivery may be provided by special equipment, human
activity, the special availability of space, or any combination of these elements. Includes
centralized food stores and laundries that typically serve the occupants or activities of
more than one building. Also includes central facilities for printing and duplicating
services, central mail facilities, central shipping and receiving areas, and central
environmental testing or monitoring facilities, if they serve the occupants and activities
of more than one building. Institutions may wish to differentiate individual central
services through the use of additional codes in this series. Most of these centralized areas
have a campus-wide service scope.
Limitations: Does not include those spaces providing the above listed functions if they
support other primary activity spaces in the same building. For example, a food storage
area in a cafeteria should be coded as Food Facility Service (635); a laundry room in a
residence hall should be coded as Sleep/Study Service (935); a copy room or mail room
in an office area is coded Office Service (315). Media production or distribution
facilities are coded separately as Media Production (530); and computer-based data
processing and telecommunications equipment centers are coded separately as Central
Computer or Telecommunications (710). Facilities used for the manufacture, repair, or
maintenance of products or equipment should be coded Shop (720). Central Storage
(730) and Vehicle Storage (740) facilities also have separate codes. |
| 755 Central Service Support | A space that directly serves a central service facility as an extension of the
activities in that facility.
Description: Central Service Support spaces are typically limited to extension storage
rooms for supplies, parts, and moving or nonactive equipment, and adjacent, directly
supporting repair and maintenance areas.
Limitations: Offices within a central service area or complex should be coded Office
(310). Centralized physical plant repair and maintenance facilities that do not directly
support a Central Service (750) facility should be coded Shop (720). |
| 760 Hazardous Material Storage | A centralized facility used for the storage of materials planned for future use
or distribution that are considered hazardous by the physical, chemical, biological, or
radioactive nature of the materials.
Description: Hazardous materials include those materials that are flammable, chemically
aggressive (e.g., acids or bases), chemically unstable, biologically toxic, or radioactive.
These materials are new in nature, in that they had been acquired for specific planned
use and are not remnants or leftovers from other work activities. This category of
space is separate from hazardous waste storage (770).
Limitations: Does not include centralized storage of hazardous waste materials (see
Hazardous Waste Storage-770); small satellite storage areas located around the
institution; satellite accumulation areas located near or adjacent to instructional,
research, or process facilities; or a dedicated Unit Storage (see Codes 215, 225, 255,
770, 775, 780). |
| 770 Hazardous Waste Storage | A centralized storage facility used for the treatment and/or disposal of
hazardous or toxic waste materials as defined, classified, and controlled under
government environmental regulations.
Description: This includes facilities specifically devoted to the storage, treatment, and/or
disposal of toxic or hazardous waste. Hazardous or toxic waste materials are those
materials remaining in excess from any particular process or procedure and so represent
waste, the disposal of which is regulated by government environmental regulations.
Limitations: Does not include centralized storage of hazardous materials (see Hazardous
Materials Storage-760); small area satellite storage areas located around the institution;
satellite accumulation areas located near or adjacent to instructional, research, or process
facilities; or dedicated Unit Storage (see Codes 215, 225, 255, 760, 775, 780). |
| 775 Hazardous Waste Service | Small storage areas distributed throughout the institution used for temporary
storage of hazardous or toxic waste materials as defined, classified, and controlled under
government environmental regulations.
Description: Hazardous waste materials services provides for distributed collection areas
located in (close) proximity to hazardous waste generators for the temporary storage of
hazardous waste materials until relocated to the central hazardous waste storage location,
or until collected for final disposal. This includes satellite accumulation areas located
near or adjacent to instructional, research, or process facilities.
Limitations: Does not include centralized storage of hazardous materials (see Hazardous
Materials Storage-760); centralized storage of hazardous waste materials (see Hazardous
Waste Storage-770); or dedicated Unit Storage (780) (see Codes 215, 225, 255, 760,
770, 780). |
| 780 Unit Storage | A dedicated storage area or location under the direct control and
management of a specific institutional division, department, office, business unit, or
similar organizational unit.
Description: A dedicated storage unit or location typically remote from the controlling
unit’s work space and under its direct control and management for the purpose of storing
materials and equipment related to and in support of the unit’s particular program and
activities. This category of space is different from hazardous materials storage (760) or
hazardous waste storage (770).
Limitations: Does not include centralized storage of hazardous materials (see Hazardous
Materials Storage-760); centralized storage of hazardous waste materials (see Hazardous
Waste Storage-770); small area satellite storage areas located around the institution; or
satellite accumulation areas located near or adjacent to instructional, research, or process
facilities (see Codes 215, 225, 255, 760, 770, 775). |
| 810 Patient Bedroom | A room equipped with one or more beds and used for patient care.
Description: This category includes general nursing care, acute care, semiconvalescent
and rehabilitative adult or pediatric bedrooms, intensive care units, progressive coronary
care units, emergency bed care units, observation units, infant care nurseries, incubator
units, wards, etc. Connected clothes closets may be aggregated with Patient Bedroom
(810) space or classified separately as Patient Bedroom Service (815).
Stalls or cage rooms for animal patients are also included, although specific bedding
areas may not be provided. Veterinary facility areas commonly called veterinary
quarters, small or large animal ward, equine stall, bovine stall, etc., are included in this
category.
Limitations: Student residence quarters should be classified with the Residential
Facilities (Code 900 series) codes. Staff on-call spaces for resting and sleeping are coded
as Staff On-Call Facility (890).
Does not include nonpatient animal shelters used for farm animals (see Field Building-
560) or nonveterinary school laboratory animals (see Animal Facilities-570). |
| 815 Patient Bedroom Service | A room that directly serves one or more patient bedrooms as an extension of
the activities in those spaces.
Description: Included are linen closets, patient lounges, children’s play rooms, and any
other service areas that are used primarily by patients rather than staff. Also includes
small anterooms and closets connected to the patient bedrooms if these areas are not
aggregated with the Patient Bedroom (810) space.
Veterinary facility areas commonly called ward storage and groom spaces should be
classified within this category.
Limitations: Excludes the small, connected clothes closets in patient bedrooms, which
are included in the Patient Bedroom (810) space. Support areas that do not directly serve
a patient bedroom or patient bedroom ward should be classified with the service code
corresponding to the primary activity area being served. Also not included are the utility,
storage, medication preparation, and other work rooms that serve a nurse station (see
Nurse Station Service-835).
Does not include feed storage or mixing rooms, cage washing areas, surgery, casting, or
instrument rooms that serve a laboratory animal quarters facility (see Animal Facilities
Service-575). Veterinary institution feed storage and food preparation rooms are
classified as Nurse Station Service (835). |
| 820 Patient Bath | A room containing patient bath and toilet facilities.
Description: Included in this category are toilet and bath facilities adjoining or in
proximity to patient bedrooms. These rooms may contain various configurations of
toilet, tub, shower, or commode facilities; individual types of Patient Bath (820) may be
distinguished through the application of extension codes.
Animal cleaning rooms in veterinary schools are included in this classification unless the
cleaning rooms are specifically used for surgery preparation (see Surgery Service-845).
Limitations: Public rest rooms and private rest rooms serving areas other than patient
bedrooms (e.g., Office Service-315, Nurse Station Service-835) are excluded. Special
tub rooms used by nursing staff for cleaning patients are classified Nurse Station Service
(835).
Animal groom rooms should be coded 815. |
| 830 Nurse Station | A room or area used by nurses or other patient care staff who are supervising
or administering health care services.
Description. This is the primary workstation area used by nurses and other patient care
staff; these personnel are typically assigned to a specific ward of the facility. Includes
ward reception and admissions desks and records or charting work areas.
Limitations: Spaces that are used as Offices (310) should be so classified. |
| 835 Nurse Station Service | A space that directly serves one or more nurse station spaces as an extension
of the activities in those spaces.
Description: Includes nurse lounges or break rooms, locker rooms, private staff rest
rooms, utility rooms, storage (e.g., medications, supplies, etc.), formula and medication
preparation areas, equipment sterilization, and other work rooms directly serving the
nurse station. Also includes special tub rooms, nourishment rooms, and separate storage
rooms for records and charts.
Animal or poultry maintenance service rooms in veterinary institutions, including tack
rooms, horseshoeing rooms, food preparation, and feed storage rooms, are also included
in this category.
Limitations: Spaces used as Offices (310) should be so classified. Pharmacy and other
central supply areas are classified as Central Supplies (870). Areas directly serving
patient bedrooms are coded Patient Bedroom Service (815). Additional codes may be
used to distinguish clean and soiled utility rooms, medication and nourishment rooms,
etc., as needed. |
| 840 Surgery | A room used for surgery.
Description: Included in this category are major and minor surgery rooms, delivery
rooms, and special procedures operating rooms (e.g., OB-GYN, ophthalmic operating
rooms). These spaces are typically equipped with operating room tables, sterile lights,
anesthesia machines, and various types of monitoring equipment. Institutions may wish
to distinguish specific types of surgery or operating rooms through extension coding.
Also includes rooms in veterinary facilities typically referred to as large animal surgery,
small animal (includes poultry) surgery, bovine surgery, bull surgery, etc.
Limitations: Does not include the various surgery support spaces that are used as a direct
extension of surgery activities (see Surgery Service-845). Also does not include spaces
used for the minor invasive procedures (e.g., blood withdrawal, cardiac catheterization)
of the diagnostic examination process (see Treatment/Examination Clinic-850). |
| 845 Surgery Service | A space that directly serves a surgery room as an extension of the activities
in that facility.
Description: Included are recovery rooms, labor rooms, special support equipment
rooms (e.g., anesthesia, heart, lung, x-ray, etc.), dictation booths, scrub-up rooms, gown
rooms, locker rooms, instrument cleanup and storage rooms, sterile supply storage
rooms, patient (surgery preparation) cleaning rooms, monitor rooms, gas and gurney
storage areas, postoperative and operating room repair rooms, and clean and dirty utility
areas, if these spaces directly serve the surgery facility.
Animal holding rooms are also included here if they directly serve a veterinary surgery
room.
Limitations: Storage and other support spaces that do not directly serve a Surgery (840)
facility should be classified with the appropriate service space category. Rooms used for
the direct implementation of surgical procedures are classified Surgery (840). |
| 850 Treatment/Examination Clinic | A space used for examinations, diagnosis, consultation, or treatment.
Description: Included are rooms used for radiology, fluoroscopy, angiography, physical
and occupational therapy, dialysis, body (e.g., CAT, MRI, ultrasound) scanning, cardiac
catheterization, pulmonary function and vascular testing, EEG, ECG, EMC, EMR, linear
acceleration, dental examination, treatment, speech, hearing, and other similar activities.
Also includes combined doctor’s office and treatment/examination clinic rooms.
In veterinary institutions, rooms commonly called isolation treatment, small or large
animal treatment, small or large animal x-ray, etc., are included.
Limitations: Does not include rooms used for the more radically invasive treatment
procedures of surgery (see Surgery-840). Treatment/Examination Clinic (850) diagnosis
differs from Diagnostic Service Laboratory (860) testing and diagnosis in that the former
requires the presence of the patient. |
| 855 Treatment/Examination Clinic Serv | A space that directly serves a Treatment/Examination Clinic room as an
extension of the activities in those spaces.
Description: Included are dressing rooms, x-ray and film reading or viewing rooms, film
processing rooms, dark rooms, work preparation areas, equipment and supply storage
areas, soundproof rooms, patient dressing rooms, and clean and dirty utility rooms if
these areas directly serve the primary activity treatment/examination clinic facility.
Also includes spaces in veterinary institutions commonly called animal holding pens, or
other similar services if these areas serve a treatment/examination clinic area.
Limitations: Does not include service areas for diagnostic service laboratories (see
Diagnostic Service Laboratory-860, Diagnostic Service Laboratory Support-865), which
typically support the entire health care facility. Primary activity rooms that are used to
deliver therapeutic and diagnostic treatment should be coded Treatment/Examination
Clinic (850). Treatment, examination, or clinic waiting rooms are classified as Public
Waiting (880) facilities. |
| 860 Diagnostic Service Laboratory | A space used to provide diagnostic support services to an entire health care
facility.
Description: Includes pathology, pharmacy, autopsy, isotope rooms or labs, etc.,
providing such services as hematology, chemistry tissue, bacteriology, serology, blood
bank, and basal metabolism.
Also includes areas commonly termed animal necropsy rooms in veterinary
institutions.
Limitations: Laboratories used primarily for instructional purposes should be classified
with the Laboratory Facilities (Code 200 series). Rooms used for diagnostic and
therapeutic examination or treatment of patients should be classified as
Treatment/Examination Clinic (850) facilities. |
| 865 Diagnostic Laboratory Support | A space that directly serves a diagnostic service laboratory as an extension of
the activities in that facility.
Description: Included are cadaver storage rooms, morgues, autoclave and centrifuge
rooms, warm and cold rooms, lockers, scrub-up and gown rooms, special processing
rooms, and supply and storage areas that directly serve one or more diagnostic service
laboratories.
Also includes carcass refrigerators and other areas with the above service functions in
veterinary institutions.
Limitations: Does not include storage areas, dressing rooms, work preparation rooms,
and other areas that support a patient Treatment/Examination Clinic (850) room. |
| 870 Central Supplies | A room used centrally to store health care supplies in a health care facility.
Description: This classification, which serves a central storage or supply function
similar to the Central Storage (730) classification, applies only to health care materials
and supplies in a health care facility. Storage is relatively inactive in comparison to
(usually smaller) standard service rooms. Included are pharmacy supply and storage
rooms, dispensary areas, and central linen storage rooms. Additional codes may be used
by institutions that wish to differentiate among the specific materials being stored.
Limitations: Does not include central storage areas for materials or equipment that are
not directly health care related (e.g., furniture, office equipment); such areas should be
classified as Central Storage (730). Linen closets that serve nurse stations and other
limited scope service areas should be classified with the appropriate service code. Also
excluded are multipurpose supply or storage facilities that serve more campus units than
just the health care facility. |
| 880 Medical Public Waiting | A space used by the public to await admission, treatment, or information
within a health care facility.
Description: Included are lobby areas that are specifically configured and furnished for
public waiting; physical or phantom boundaries should be assigned, as needed, to define
nonassignable areas of entrance lobbies that simply serve a circulation function. Also
includes patient waiting rooms, visiting areas, viewing rooms, and ward day rooms.
Limitations: Open lounges (see Lounge-650) and other service room lounges (e.g.,
patient lounge—see Patient Bedroom Service-815) should be classified appropriately.
Only areas specifically assigned to public waiting for admission, treatment, or
information should be classified with this code. |
| 890 Staff On-Call Facility | A room or quarters used by health care staff to rest or sleep while on call to
assigned duties within a health care facility.
Description: Includes areas or rooms used by doctors, nurses, emergency medical
technicians, night care crews, etc., to rest or sleep while on call to specific duties within
the facility.
Limitations: Staff on-call rooms or quarters differ from open and service area lounges
(see Lounge-650) in that specific provisions are made for sleeping, and use is restricted
to staff who typically work a long shift. Bedrooms for patients should be coded as
Patient Bedroom (810); student residence quarters should be classified with the
Residential Facilities (900 series) codes. |
| 895 Staff On-Call Facility Service | A space that directly serves as a staff on-call room as an extension of the
activities in that facility.
Description: Includes kitchens, baths, laundry rooms, lounges, closets, storage rooms,
and other service areas that directly serve the on-call quarters.
Limitations: Does not include storage and other support spaces that serve Patient
Bedrooms (815). Also excluded are Central Supply areas (870). |
| 910 Sleep/Study without Toilet/Bath | A residential room for one or more individuals typically furnished with
bed(s), wardrobe(s), closet(s), desk(s), and chair(s), without an internally connected
bath or toilet.
Description: Includes single or multiple sleep/study rooms. A sleep/study facility may
be a room for combined sleep/study, a room exclusively for sleeping, or a room for
living and study. Connected closets are considered part of the room.
Limitations: Study rooms for general use, available and open to the dormitory residents
at large, and not part of bedroom or sleeping room suites, should be classified as Study
Space (410). Residential quarters equipped with internal cooking facilities are coded
Apartment (950). Separate food preparation rooms serving sleep/study areas, including
small kitchens used by the occupants, are coded Sleep/Study Service (935) unless there
is an accompanying eating area (see Food Facility-630) that the food preparation area
directly serves. The appropriate service code of Food Facility Service (635) would then
be applied. |
| 919 Toilet/Bath | A toilet or bathroom intended only for the occupants of the residential
facilities, rather than for the public.
Description: Includes common or shared bathroom facilities that may consist of full or
half bath, shower, or toilet and shower combinations, used by the residents and
accessible from a corridor or other general circulation area.
Limitations: Does not include public rest rooms. Bathrooms internal to a Sleep/Study
With Toilet or Bath (920), Apartment (950), or House (970) are included in those
respective categories. Private rest room areas that serve offices are Office Service (315). |
| 920 Sleep/Study wth Toilet/Bath | A residential room for one or more individuals typically furnished with
bed(s), wardrobe(s), closet(s), desk(s), and chair(s), with an internally connected bath or
toilet.
Description: Includes single or multiple sleep/study rooms with bath facilities internal to
the suite and not separately classified Toilet or Bath (919). A sleep/study facility with
toilet or bath may be a room for combined sleep/study, a room exclusively for sleeping,
or a room for living and study, and includes connected closets. A sleep/study with toilet
or bath facility, by definition, has a private toilet or bath that is accessible without
having to go out to a hallway or other general circulation area. Suites may have a study
and living room that is private to the residents of the suite area. These areas are included
as part of the Sleep/Study With Toilet or Bath (920) space.
Limitations: Study spaces for general use, available and open to the dormitory residents
at large, and not part of bedroom or sleeping room suites, should be classified as Study
Rooms (410). Residential quarters equipped with cooking facilities are coded as
Apartment (950). Sleep/Study Rooms Without Toilet or Bath (910) and their
corresponding external Toilet or Bath (919) rooms are coded separately. |
| 935 Sleep/Study Service | A room that directly serves the occupants of sleep/study rooms.
Description: This is the service code for the Sleep/Study Rooms Without Toilet or Bath
(910) and Sleep/Study With Toilet or Bath (920) residential facility categories. Includes
mail rooms, laundry and pressing rooms, linen closets, housekeeping rooms, serving
rooms, trunk storage rooms, and telephone rooms that serve the occupants of sleep/study
facilities. Kitchen or food preparation spaces that serve sleeping areas and do not serve
an accompanying eating or dining area (see Food Facility-630) are also classified as
Sleep/Study Service (935).
Limitations: Does not include Offices (310), Lounges (650), Study Rooms (410), eating
or dining areas (see Food Facility-630), toilet/bath areas for occupants of Sleep/Study
rooms (see Toilet or Bath-919), Recreation (670) areas, or Meeting Rooms (680) in any
residential facility, including institutionally controlled hotels or motels. |
| 950 Apartment | A complete living unit, with private cooking facilities, that is not a separate
structure.
Description: This is the basic module or group of rooms designed as a complete
housekeeping unit (i.e., it contains bedroom(s), living room(s), kitchen, and rest room
facilities). It is not intended that individual rooms be specifically identified within the
apartment, but only that the total interior space be included. Includes apartments
provided for faculty, staff, students, or visiting guests. Apartments need not be located in
a residential building. Duplex units or townhouses should be classified as Apartments
(950) because they are not separate, freestanding structures.
Limitations: Does not include single, freestanding structures (see House-970) or any
residential units that do not contain private cooking facilities such as Sleep/Study Rooms
Without Toilet or Bath (910) and Sleep/Study With Toilet or Bath (920). |
| 955 Apartment Service | A room or area that directly serves an apartment or group of apartments as an
extension of the activities in that facility.
Description: Includes laundry rooms, mail rooms, linen closets, maintenance,
housekeeping or security rooms, trunk storage rooms, telephone rooms, and weight or
exercise rooms that serve apartment facilities. Apartment service facilities may be
located in a separate building that serves an apartment complex. Service rooms (laundry,
storage, etc.) that are internal to an apartment unit are included in the Apartment (950)
space.
Limitations: Does not include service rooms (laundry, mail, trunk, etc.) that directly
serve residential facilities that have no internal cooking facilities such as Sleep/Study
Rooms Without Toilet or Bath (910) or Sleep/Study With Toilet or Bath (920). This
category also excludes service rooms within a separate, freestanding residential unit (see
House-970). |
| 970 House | A complete living unit, with private cooking facilities, that is a separate
structure. Should include fraternity and sorority houses only if owned or controlled by
the institution.
Description: This is the basic module or group of rooms designed as a complete
housekeeping unit (i.e., it contains bedroom(s), living room(s), kitchen, and toilet
facilities). It is not intended that individual rooms be specifically identified within the
structure, but only that the total interior area be accounted for. Includes houses provided
for faculty, staff, or students. Should include fraternity and sorority houses only if owned
by the institution.
Limitations: Houses and other residential properties that are owned or controlled by an
institution as commercial investments, and that do not serve the institution’s primary
missions, are often excluded from the formally coded facilities inventory. Does not
include complete living units that are part of a larger structure (see Apartment-950).
Houses used as office areas should be classified with the Office Facilities (300 series)
codes. |
| SERV Service Area Rooms | |
| VERT Vertical Penetration | |
| W01 Bridge/Tunnel | A covered and walled connecting passageway for people to pass over or
under the ground to gain access to another facility.
Limitations: Ground-level covered passageways, walled or not, are coded as Public
Corridors (W06). Any portion of the floor area of covered and walled bridges or tunnels
used exclusively for housing utility services such as gas, steam, or water lines, should
not be included in a space inventory as they are considered infrastructure and should be
dealt with accordingly. |
| W02 Elevator | The structural shaft built to accommodate one or more elevator cabs. The
entire cross-sectional shaft area is to be inventoried at each floor level through which it
passes.
Limitations: Individual elevator cabs are considered as fixed equipment within the shaft
space; thus, their area is not added to the space inventory. |
| W03 Escalator | A moving passageway that carries passengers from one floor level to
another, or along a level path over some distance. For a ramped escalator, the floor area
taken by the entire length of each escalator at the lowest level is recorded at that floor
level. The area of each floor penetrated by that escalator is inventoried on each of those
floors.
Limitations: The escalator equipment itself is considered as fixed equipment and may be
inventoried as a fixed asset. The overall dimensions of that equipment may be smaller
than the floor area penetration inventoried for a space inventory. |
| W04 Loading Dock | A covered area of a platform used to load or off-load goods or materials that
are to be transported elsewhere within a reasonable amount of time such that the
platform is not considered as a storage location. Only the length and width of the
platform’s covered area is to be included in the inventory. If the platform is internal to
the building line, that area of the platform covered by the floor immediately above is to
be included in the inventory.
Limitations: Any part of the platform area not covered is excluded from the building’s
gross, assignable, and nonassignable areas. Any area of a loading dock that is used for
central storage of nonhazardous materials should be regarded as assignable area and
coded as Central Storage (730). |
| W05 Lobby | A circulation area used to transition from the floor’s external entrance to
internal circulation space, to pass from one corridor to another, or to move to a different
level such as a lobby area outside an elevator bank. Although a Lobby may have some
limited seating furniture, it is designed more for passing through (or having standing
conversations) than for sitting and relaxing.
Limitations: A Lobby differs from an assignable Lounge (650) in furniture placement,
use, and intent. |
| W06 Public Corridor | A covered passageway or ramped area available to the general public,
whether walled or not, to transport people or things from one location to another. The
use of phantom walls is recommended to identify portions of passageways on the same
floor level that may represent differing purposes, e.g., a main corridor versus a side
corridor, or differing maintenance needs, e.g., terrazzo flooring versus carpeted flooring.
Limitations: Restricted access private circulation aisles or ramped areas used only for
circulation within an organizational unit’s suite of rooms, auditoria, or other working
areas should not be included. In these cases, they may fall within the service
subcategories of those space use categories, or earn a separate service subcategory of
Private Circulation, for example (see Description under 315 Office Service). |
| W07 Stairway | The covered internal or external space dedicated to provide nonmechanically
assisted passage from one floor level to another. In an enclosed stairway, the crosssectional
area of the stairwell is inventoried at each floor through which it passes. In an
unenclosed stairway, only that area beneath the stairway structure that is not accessible
or has less than a 3-foot ceiling height is included.
Limitations: In stairways that pass through floor openings larger than themselves, the
open area around the stairway’s floor penetration is not counted as either gross area or
usable area. In an unenclosed stairway, that area beneath the stairway structure that is
accessible and has a 3-foot ceiling height or greater should be included as both gross
area and usable area in the inventory. |
| X01 Custodial Supply Closet | A small area or closet that houses limited quantities of custodial supplies for
daily use by custodial staff.
Limitations: Similar areas in health care facilities should be coded as Treatment/
Examination Clinic Service (855). |
| X02 Janitor's Room | A space dedicated for use by janitorial staff. It may include a clothes
changing area, clothes lockers, shower facility, a small eating and relaxing space, a desk
for completing paperwork, a sink room for wet mop activities, or a temporary trash
collection area for nonhazardous waste materials.
Limitations: Similar areas in health care facilities should be coded as Treatment/
Examination Clinic Service (855). |
| X03 Public Rest Room | Includes all toilet facilities, whether locked or not, that are made available
for general public use. Accompanying rest areas that are contiguous to a public rest
room are also included as part of the toilet facility’s area. For planning purposes, some
may wish to provide subcategories of this space use that identifies gender- or nongender-
specific rest rooms, handicapped accessibility, etc.
Limitations: Similar areas that by nature of their location or their door locks are reserved
for certain staff within the building should be coded as Office Service (315). The use of
the subcategory Private Rest Room within the Office Service code is an option to further
delineate these types of spaces. |
| X04 Trash Room | A space for the temporary storage of nonhazardous waste awaiting disposal
or removal.
Limitations: Rooms or spaces that house hazardous waste should be coded as either
Hazardous Waste Storage (770) or Hazardous Waste Services (775). |
| Y01 Central Utility Plant | A facility that primarily houses central utility production and/or distribution
to more than one facility on campus. These include such facilities as steam plants, cogeneration
facilities, and electrical distribution facilities.
Limitations: Conventional space use types such as Offices (310), Office Service (315),
Conference Rooms (350), and the like are designated as such, even though they are
located in a central utility plant. |
| Y02 Fuel Room | A room or area within a building in which fuel for the heating/cooling of the
building is stored.
Limitations: Underground tanks adjacent to the building that do not fulfill the definition
of a building should be treated as infrastructure. |
| Y03 Shaft | Included are accessible or nonaccessible shaft spaces available to house
utility pipes and cables, or to distribute air within or to the exterior of a building. The
cross-sectional area of every shaft is to be inventoried at each floor level through which
it passes.
Limitations: Shafts that house elevator cabs are to be coded as Elevator (W02). |
| Y04 Utility/Mechanical Space | Included are covered and walled areas that house one or more utility and/or
mechanical functions for the building. These areas range from large rooms co-located on
a mechanical floor or basement area to small closet spaces distributed throughout the
building. Such areas, while generally located within the exterior walls of a building or
as an accessible roof structure, may be separately housed adjacent to the structure that
they serve. They include such areas sometimes referred to as electrical, meter, network,
or telecommunication spaces. Some may prefer to identify these specific spaces
separately and may do so by adding them as subcategories of this space use.
Limitations: Air inflow or outflow shafts within or immediately adjacent to the building,
with a minimum ceiling height of 3 feet, fall under the nonassignable space use Shaft
(Y03) and must be included in both gross area and nonassignable area calculations. |
| Z01 Non Occupiable Areas | The remaining area within the gross square footage of a building is structural or “construction” area,
which cannot be occupied or put to use. (See section 3.2, Definitions of Building Areas.) Institutions may
wish to include this area using the ZZZ code to have a complete inventory for all the building areas that
add to the Gross Area total for a floor and for a building.
• The sum of all areas on all floors of a building that cannot be occupied or put
to use because of structural building features. This area is the algebraic difference
between Gross Area and Net Usable Area. Examples of building features normally
classified as structural areas include exterior walls, fire walls, permanent partitions,
unusable areas in attics or basements, or comparable portions of a building with ceiling
height restrictions, as well as unexcavated basement areas
• Limitations: This area is not measurable but can be calculated by the formula: |