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000 – UNASSIGNED AREAS
Unassigned areas are those types of spaces that are necessary for the general use and operation of a building but are not assigned to any organizational unit.
010 CUSTODIAL AREAS
011 Receiving-Shipping Room
Definition: A room used for the transit of materials and supplies into or out of a building.
Description: Include rooms or areas which are used for receiving materials and supplies, etc., for distribution to other parts of the building or for shipping to other places.
Limitations: Do not include rooms classified as storage, warehouse, stockroom, etc., which are used for the storage of supplies and materials.
012 Janitorial
Description: Janitorial area is the area of all spaces on all floors of a building used for building protection, care, maintenance and operation. Include such rooms as janitors’ closets and maintenance storerooms.
020 CIRCULATION AREAS
021 Hall or Corridor
Definition: A passageway or area — whether or not enclosed by partitions — which is required for physical access to some subdivision of space.
Description: Hall or corridor areas should include all spaces (access, public, service, and “phantom” for large un-partitioned areas) used for general access.
022 Elevator
Definition: An area which encloses the elevator car or cars used for transportation of freight or passengers from floor to floor. Include all horizontal areas at each floor level.
023 Lobby
Definition: An area used for general circulation and access to other parts of a building.
Description: Include areas which are typically located with the entrance to a building. The area may include some type of benches or seating.
024 Stairs
Definition: The area leading from one floor level to another by means of steps. (Include all horizontal areas at each floor level.)
025 Vestibule
Definition: A small area or room between doors leading into a building or into a room within a building.
Description: Include such areas as the enclosed entrance to a building which consists of two sets of doors or an area which serves as an entrance to another area.
Limitations: Do not include Lobby(ies) or Hall(s) in this category of space.
026 Ramp
Definition: An inclined passageway or corridor of slope (usually no greater than 1:12) for use by individuals in wheelchairs.
Description: Includes only those spaces that are clearly part of a buildings internal circulation plan or are required by handicapped accessibility standards to provide barrier-free access to a space.
030 MECHANICAL AREAS
031 Mechanical-Electrical Equipment
Definition: That portion of a building designed to house mechanical equipment and utility services.
Description: Mechanical areas should include such spaces as air-duct shafts, boiler rooms, fixed mechanical and electrical equipment rooms, fuel rooms, mechanical service shafts, meter and communications closets, etc.
Limitations: Do not include central utility plant facilities (see code 033).
032 Restroom
Definition: All non-private toilet facilities.
Description: Include all toilet areas open to the general public or for general use of the building occupants.
033 Central Utility Plant Facility
Definition: A building or portion of a building designed to house central heating plants and other central utility functions (chillers, boilers, electrical generators, etc.) housed in buildings or rooms that are a part of the central utility system of the institution.
Limitations: Do not include mechanical/electrical areas which service individual buildings and/or rooms and which are not part of the central (campus wide) utility system (see code 031).
040 Inactive Areas
041 Inactive
Definition: Those rooms in the process of conversion, completion and/or reassignment and not available for use at the time of the space study.
050-099 – SERVICE AREAS
Service areas are those types of spaces which are generally associated with a major type of space such as classrooms, laboratories, offices, etc. The service provided in this area is normally related directly (as an extension of the activities) to the major area with which it is associated.
(NOTE: In those cases in which centralized services are supplied to serve many areas, such as central duplicating, printing press, etc., the area will be coded as a major type of space, and it may have related service areas of its own.)
051 Animal Room
Definition: Rooms or aquarium space used for the housing and feeding of animals or fish.
Description: The rooms or spaces in this category would be those which are located in regular academic buildings and would normally be associated with a research facility. These rooms are limited to facilities that serve a particular space or lab.
Limitations: Do not include in this category kennels or other animal quarters (barns, sheep sheds, etc.) which are not located in regular academic buildings. Also, do not include in this category animal quarters which make available animals (including fish, birds, etc.) to the institution (see 571 Animal Quarters).
052 Computer Related Room
Definition: A room which directly supports computer facilities.
Description: The rooms in this category would include tape storage, paper form storage, disc/tape drive rooms, equipment repair rooms, etc.
053 Checkroom
Definition: A room in which hats, coats, parcels, etc., may be left until claimed.
Description: Generally, rooms in this category are found in auditoriums, theaters, student unions, etc.
054 Closet
Definition: A small room or cupboard space for clothes.
Description: Included are spaces usually located in or adjacent to offices, classrooms, etc., and in which coats, hats, etc., may be placed.
Limitations: Do not include in this category space used as linen closets, storage areas for cleaning supplies or stockroom areas.
055 Dispensary Room
Definition: A room where medicines are stored and also made up and given out such as medical stores dispensing rooms and medicine preparation rooms.
056 Drafting Room
Definition: A room used to prepare sketches or working plans.
Description: Include rooms used by staff architects to prepare plans and rooms related to cartography labs used for the preparation of maps, etc.
Limitations: This category does not include drafting rooms which are used as teaching laboratories.
057 Dressing Room
Definition: A room for getting dressed and/or changing clothes in, especially as in the theater.
Description: A room where performers dress and make up for their roles. Also included would be rooms adjoining research labs or other areas where special uniforms or wearing apparel must be put on before entering the lab, etc.
Limitations: This space is not part of an athletic locker room.
058 Duplicating Room
Definition: A room containing equipment for making exact copies of letters, drawings, photographs, etc.
Description: Include rooms containing photo-copying machines, multigraphy machines, or other types of equipment used for making exact copies of various written or printed materials.
059 Environmental Control Room
Definition: A room used for experimentation under specifically controlled environmental circumstances.
Limitations: Do not include in this category greenhouses or refrigeration rooms in food preparation and serving areas.
060 Audio Control Room
Definition: A room containing audio equipment used in conjunction with another room.
Description: Included would be control booths (rooms) which service student study carrels, language laboratories, etc.
061 File Room
Definition: A area with shelves, file cabinets, etc., used to keep an orderly arrangement of documents, etc., for reference.
Limitations: Do not include vaults or storage areas used as dead or permanent storage areas.
062 Food Serving Room
Definition: A room or area used exclusively for serving food.
Description: This category includes rooms in which food is displayed for self-service or food is served by an employee of the facility.
Limitations: Do not include serving areas located in and a part of the same room as a cafeteria or snack bar.
063 Food Cleanup Room
Definition: A room(s) used for cleaning up dishes, etc. after meals.
Description: This category includes dish washing rooms, trash-garbage rooms, etc., in which the dishes, utensils, pots, etc., are cleaned. These rooms are usually located near the food preparation areas.
064 Food Preparation Room
Definition: A room in which food is prepared and cooked.
Description: Include rooms identified as kitchens, refrigeration rooms, pantries, etc., where food is prepared for serving.
065 Hospital Utility Room, Clean
Definition: A room used for working with sterile materials in a patient care area.
066 Instrument-Equipment Room
Definition: A room containing specialized instruments or equipment that by their nature or rarity are kept in a special place.
Description: This category includes rooms containing rare or one- of-a-kind special equipment, highly specialized equipment that cannot be moved from room to room yet should be available for common use, and rooms containing instruments used for weighing, measuring, balancing, etc.
067 Issue Room
Definition: A room in which an attendant is responsible for the issuing of supplies, equipment (athletic), parts, tools, instruments, etc.
068 Hospital Utility Room, Dirty
Definition: A room used for the disposal of waste products, etc., in a patient care area.
071 Laundry Room
Definition: A room for washing, drying and ironing of clothes.
Description: This category includes rooms which may contain washing machines, dryers, and ironing boards or any combination of these.
073 Locker Room
Definition: A room equipped with lockers and used for changing and storing clothes.
Description: Include rooms in gymnasiums or other buildings which contain lockers used by faculty, staff and students for changing and storing of their clothes.
Limitations: Do not include dressing rooms in the theater, etc. (see code 057).
074 Mailroom
Definition: A room used for the receiving and distribution of mail from the central mail facility.
Description: Included are those rooms (departmental, etc.) where mail is delivered or picked up. The mail (in the case of residence halls) is sorted and distributed to individual boxes or slots which may or may not be in the same room.
Limitation: Do not include central mail facilities.
075 Morgue/Embalming/Autopsy Room
Definition: Rooms used in the treatment and storage of cadavers.
Description: Included would be rooms used to treat a cadaver with certain preparations to preserve it from decay, or for the examination and dissection of a dead body to determine the cause of death, damage done by disease, etc.
076 Nurses Workroom
Definition: A room with sinks and sterilizers used by the nurses to prepare patient treatments, medications, etc.
077 Observation Room
Definition: A room equipped for the purpose of open or undetected viewing of activity in another room.
Limitations: This category does not include examining rooms.
078 Photo Darkroom
Definition: A specially designed room that has the characteristics that enable persons to chemically develop exposed film.
079 Preparation Room
Definition: A room used to make ready or put together materials, ingredients, parts, etc., to be used in another area or room.
Description: Included are rooms used to prepare materials for laboratories, classrooms, or other types of spaces. Include any room whose purpose is the making up of displays, formulas, materials, etc., to be used in another room.
080 Press Box
Definition: An area or room reserved for reporters, TV cameras, spotters, etc., at sporting or other events.
Description: Include in this category all structures built to specifically house reporters, TV cameras, radio equipment, etc., at athletic events. Include the entire structure even though it may contain other types of space (e.g., teletype room, rest rooms, lounge, etc.)
Limitations: Do not include in this category bench areas inside gymnasia that are set aside for reporters.
081 Projection Booth
Definition: A room (usually small) from which pictures (motion, slide, etc.) are projected into an adjoining room.
083 Refrigeration Room
Definition: A room for keeping food or other articles cool.
Description: Include rooms designed as cold storage areas especially as in food preparation and serving areas. Also include cold storage rooms related to laboratories and research facilities, etc.
084 Resident-Intern Workroom
Definition: A room used by residents and/or interns to prepare reports, attend conferences relative to patients, etc.
085 Shop
Definition: A room for manufacturing and/or maintaining equipment, etc., used in support of instruction and research but not for instruction or research in the shop operations themselves.
Description: This category includes those areas set aside to repair equipment or to manufacture specialized (custom) parts or equipment.
Limitations: Do not confuse this category with physical plant shops or with instructional shops or shop type research laboratories.
086 Shower-Toilet Room
Definition: A room containing bathroom fixtures.
Description: Included in this category are rooms generally referred to as shower rooms, washrooms, toilet rooms, etc.
087 Sterilizing Room
Definition: A room housing autoclaves or other equipment used to sterilize or cleanse various items such as surgical and other instruments or equipment and laboratory glassware, fixtures, etc.
088 Stockroom
Definition: A room used to store supplies and materials.
Description: Included in this category are those rooms used as supply closets, or serve a stores function, etc. This type of space is generally limited to a departmental type storage area and one in which the materials stored are used on a day to day basis.
Limitations: This category does not include janitors’ closets or rooms used to store janitor supplies.
091 Ticket Sales Booth
Definition: A room designed and used to sell tickets to various athletic, theater, or other types of events.
092 Tool Room
Definition: A room where tools are stored for safekeeping.
Description: Included in this category are rooms where tools are kept until they are needed for a particular job and then they are checked out to the person who is working on the particular job.
093 Training Room
Definition: A room utilizing special equipment for the purpose of physical therapy and/or rehabilitation, especially in athletics.
094 Vault
Definition: A room for the safekeeping of valuables, records, or money.
Description: Included in this category are those rooms that are specially constructed and may have special doors that once locked can only be opened with keys or with a certain combination or by a timing mechanism.
095 Waiting-Reception Room
Definition: A room or area with seating used by visitors while waiting to see someone or utilize something.
096 Vending Machine
Definition: A room or area containing vending machines which are for the students, faculty, staff, etc.
Description: This code will allow those areas housing vending machines to be identified separately from other types of retail areas.
097 Workroom
Definition: A room where various activities relating to the occupation or duties of institutional personnel are conducted.
Description: Include in this category rooms which are used to carry on various tasks or supporting activities relating to the work, etc., of institutional personnel.
098 X-Ray Room
Definition: A room equipped with X-ray equipment used for diagnostic or treatment functions.
100 – CLASSROOM FACILITIES
Classroom facilities are those types of spaces that are subject to regular assignment by the Registrar and are a necessary and vital part of the instructional facilities.
111 Classroom
Definition: A room used for class meetings which are not tied to a specific subject or discipline and which does not require special purpose equipment and is subject to regular assignment by the Registrar.
Description: Include rooms used for scheduled instruction usually referred to as general purpose classrooms, lecture rooms, and lecture-demonstration rooms which are equipped with tablet arm chairs, tables and chairs, or similar types of seating. Also included is a theater or auditorium if its principal use is for scheduled class meetings and if the space is so equipped that the usage is not limited to one function or rendered unsuitable for use by classes in other areas of study. These rooms may contain multimedia or telecommunications equipment or be furnished with special equipment appropriate to a specific area of study if the equipment does not render the room unsuitable for use by classes in other areas of study. This category may include classrooms which have been set aside for a specific non-credit program.
Limitations: This category does not include conference rooms, class laboratories or auditoriums used for other than instructional purposes.
112 Seminar Room
Definition: A room normally equipped with a table and chairs which is subject to regular assignment by the Registrar.
Description: Although seminar rooms are similar to classrooms they are generally smaller, equipped with table and chairs and scheduled for small, seminar type classes.
Limitations: A room usually scheduled for seminars would not necessarily indicate it should be classified as a Seminar Room if it is equipped in the normal classroom manner.
(Note: All spaces classified as 111 or 112 should NOT be assigned to a particular department but assigned code 0099 (general classrooms).)
200 – LABORATORY FACILITIES
Laboratory facilities are characterized by special purpose equipment or specific room configuration which tie instructional or research activities to a particular discipline or a closely related group of disciplines. These activities may be individual or group in nature, with or without supervision. Laboratories may be found in all fields of study including letters, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, vocational and technical disciplines.
211 Class Laboratory
Definition: A room used by regularly scheduled classes which require special purpose equipment for student participation, experimentation, observation, or practice in a field of study.
Description: A class laboratory is designed and/or furnished with specialized equipment to serve the needs of a particular area of study for group instruction in regularly scheduled classes. The design and/or equipment in such a room normally precludes its use for other areas of study. Included in this category are rooms generally referred to as teaching laboratories, instructional shops, typing laboratories, drafting rooms, band rooms, choral rooms, (group) music practice rooms, language laboratories, (group) studios and similar specially designed and/or equipped rooms IF they are used primarily for group instruction in regularly scheduled classes.
Limitations: This category does not include laboratory rooms which serve as individual (or independent) study rooms. It does NOT include laboratories used for group instruction which are informally or irregularly scheduled. This category does NOT include rooms generally referred to as research laboratories. It does NOT include gymnasiums, swimming pools, drill halls, laboratory schools, teaching clinics, demonstration houses and similar facilities.
220 OPEN LABORATORIES
221 Open Laboratory
Definition: A room used primarily for individual or group instruction that is informally (or irregularly) scheduled.
Description: A room designed and/or furnished with specialized equipment used by informally or irregularly scheduled classes which require special purpose equipment for student participation, experimentation, observation, or practice in a particular field of study. The design and/or equipment in such a room normally precludes its use for other areas of study. Open laboratories typically (but not necessarily or exclusively) include such rooms as language laboratories, (group) music practice rooms, (group) studios, etc., which are not regularly scheduled.
Limitations: This category does not include class laboratories, individual study laboratories, or non-class laboratories. It does NOT include gymnasiums, swimming pools, drill halls, laboratory schools, teaching clinics, demonstration houses and similar facilities.
222 Studio, Audio Visual
Definition: A room scheduled by appointment, furnished with classroom type seating and providing loud speakers and playback equipment for group listening of recorded material and/or projection equipment for viewing of films.
Description: Include rooms which are usually under control of the Audio-Visual department and are scheduled by other departments for the showing of films or listening to recorded material.
Limitations: Exclude rooms equipped for individual listening.
230 INDIVIDUAL STUDY LABORATORIES
231 Individual Study Laboratory
Definition: A room especially equipped and/or designed for individual student experimentation, observation, practice or study in a particular field of study.
Description: Include rooms (which may have multiple stations) which serve a particular subject matter area. These rooms or stations are normally assigned to individuals for their own use.
Limitations: This category does not include individual study facilities which are intended for general study purposes.
232 Student Practice Room
Definition: A specially equipped and/or designed room for group or individual student experimentation, observation or practice in a particular field of study.
Description: Include music studios, speech practice rooms, small rooms used for practice by individual students or very small groups (a large room used for instruction of and practice by a group such as a band, orchestra, ensemble, etc., is usually classified as a class laboratory). This type of space is generally not assigned to any particular individual.
Limitations: A music studio assigned to a faculty member which serves as a combination faculty office and music studio should be classified as Faculty Office. This category does not include music studios which are generally larger than the music practice room and are designed to accommodate several persons at one time.
250 NON-CLASS LABORATORIES
251 Non-Class Laboratory
Definition: A room used for laboratory applications, research and or training in research methodology which requires special purpose equipment for staff and/or student experimentation or observation.
Description: Included in this category are rooms generally referred to as research laboratories and research laboratory-office. These rooms are designed and equipped for faculty, staff, and students for the conduct of research and controlled or structured creative activities. These activities may include experimentation, application, observation, composition, or research training in a structured environment directed by one or more faculty or principal investigator(s). These activities are generally confined to faculty, staff and graduate students and are applicable to any academic discipline. This category includes labs that are used for experiments or “dry runs” in support of both instructional and research activities.
Limitations: This category does not include rooms referred to as Class Laboratories, or Office-Laboratories; see Class Laboratory, Other Laboratory and Individual Study Laboratory.
252 Electron Microscope Room
Definition: A room used for laboratory applications, research, and/or training in research methodology that requires and has present an electron microscope and related equipment for staff and/or student experimentation or observation.
Description: Included are rooms which contain any electron-optical instrument in which a beam of electrons, focused by means of an electron lens, is used to produce an enlarged image on a fluorescent screen or photographic plate.
Limitations: Do not include rooms which only contain light-optical or other imaging devices.
300 OFFICE FACILITIES
Office facilities are those types of spaces that consist of rooms or suites of rooms with office type equipment that are assigned to one or more persons primarily for the performance of administrative, clerical, or faculty duties other than the meeting of classes.
310 OFFICES
311 Administrative Office
Definition: A room or suite of rooms used by administrative personnel for the performance of administrative duties.
Description: Include rooms generally referred to as the offices of the presidents, vice presidents, provost, deans, registrar, and directors.
Limitations: Do not include clerical, stenographic or other general office space.
312 Faculty Office
Definition: A room assigned to a faculty member for the performance of duties other than the meeting of classes.
Description: Include all offices used by faculty, including heads of instructional departments below the rank of dean; associate and assistant deans budgeted to other than instruction and serving a portion of the institution; graduate assistants, research associates and teaching associates, and post doctorate fellows for instructional or research purposes, instructional preparation, counseling, etc. A studio in the department of music or fine arts assigned to one or more faculty members for their own work even though occasionally used for a student lesson should be classified as a faculty office.
Limitations: This category does not include space which is equipped both as an office and research laboratory (see Office-Laboratory).
313 Staff Office
Definition: An office used by staff personnel in the performance of their regularly assigned duties.
Description: Include rooms generally occupied by Classified personnel including clerical, stenographic, receptionist and also any management personnel not included as an administrative position. Included in this category is space where any machines, files and reception areas are in the same room with clerical personnel and where such space is incidental to the office function.
Limitations: Large rooms such as glass shops, painting shops, etc., which have a desk for a technician or staff member are classified according to the primary purpose of the room rather than a staff office. The office portion may be prorated out, however.
314 Graduate Student Office
Definition: An office or portion of an office used by employed graduate students for the performance of duties other than the meeting of classes.
Description: Include all office space occupied by employed graduate students who have the title of Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) or Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA).
Limitations: This category does not include space for non-employed graduate students or other paid or non-paid student workers (See 316).
315 Office-Laboratory
Definition: An office occupied by either an academic or classified staff member and used for laboratory applications, research and/or training in research methodology which requires special purpose equipment for staff and/or student experimentation or observation.
Description: Include rooms equipped with laboratory benches, specialized scientific equipment and/or such utilities as gas, water, air, etc.
Limitations: Use of this category of space should be limited to the experimental sciences. This type of space should not be confused with a research laboratory in which a staff member may have a desk or with an office occupied by someone who conducts research without the use of special equipment, utilities, etc.
316 Student Office
Definition: An office or portion of an office used by non-employed graduate students or other paid or non-paid students who require office space.
Description: Include spaces for non-employed graduate and undergraduate students or other paid or non-paid student workers (including undergraduates, post-baccalaureates, and non-system students) who require or have been assigned office space as a result of a traineeship, fellowship, college work study, internship, mentorship, etc.
Limitations: Offices that are occupied by graduate students who are employed and have the title ‘Graduate Research’ or ‘Graduate Teaching’ assistant would be classified as Graduate Student Office.
350 CONFERENCE ROOMS
351 Conference Room
Definition: A room serving an office complex and used primarily for staff meetings and departmental activities other than instructional activities.
Description: Conference rooms are generally equipped with a table and chairs, lounge type furniture or straight-back chairs. It typically (but not necessarily) is assigned to a department for its use. It is intended primarily for formal gatherings as contrasted with a lounge which is intended for relaxation and casual interaction.
Limitations: Conference rooms are distinguished from seminar rooms on the basis of primary use: A room with tables and chairs which is used primarily for meetings as opposed to classes regularly scheduled by the Registrar. Also, do not include general purpose meeting rooms (see code 681).
400 – STUDY FACILITIES
Study facilities are those types of spaces used for the collection, storage, circulation and use of books, periodicals, manuscripts and other reading or reference materials.
410 STUDY ROOMS
411 Reading Room
Definition: A room or area used for independent study and reading with or without shelves around the wall but excluding multiple rows of shelves extending into the room. It may include provision for incidental or secondary storage, circulation and use of books, documents and other reference materials.
Description: Included in this category are general reading and study rooms, periodical reading rooms, typing rooms, and microfilm reading rooms. Also included are the prorated spaces occupied by study stations located within open stacks. Reading rooms may be furnished with tables and chairs, individual study desks and chairs (which may provide locked storage) or lounge type chairs. Aisle space which functions as an integral part of the room is to be reported as part of the room – not prorated out as unassigned circulation space. This classification will apply to other departments as well as the library.
Limitations: Excluded from this category are Study, Listening Room, Group Study Room and Media Production. Also excluded are seating and tables or shelves provided in card catalogue and stack areas for transitory use of selecting library materials.
412 Study
Definition: A small room designed for one or two individuals located near the library stacks. Study rooms are assigned for a specified period of time to faculty members or graduate students.
Limitations: Individual study desks which may or may not provide locked storage located in open stacks or open reading rooms are excluded from this category and should be classified as Reading Room.
413 Listening Room
Definition: A room furnished with audio equipment for individual listening.
Description: The rooms may be listening booths accommodating one or two individuals and equipped with loudspeakers or may accommodate several individuals using earphones at tables and chairs.
414 Group Study Room
Definition: A room equipped with tables and chairs or desks and chairs, set aside (on an appointment basis) for the use of a group of students for study and informal discussion.
Description: These rooms are usually found in the Library and can be scheduled on an appointment basis when needed for classes which hold an occasional meeting in the library to make use of library materials.
Limitations: Exclude rooms used for individual study, codes 411 and 412.
420 STACKS
421 Books
Definition: A room (or prorated portion of a room) containing multiple rows of shelving used to provide the orderly collection of books.
Description: Includes catalogued books in library stacks and un-catalogued books stored on shelves which are not part of the processing room where the books are catalogued. Include aisle space within the area classified as BOOKS but do not include elevators, halls and stairs which give access to these spaces but are used exclusively for traffic.
Limitations: Exclude non-book materials; books in the process of being catalogued in library processing rooms; archives; and elevators, halls and stairs which are used for traffic and are not part of but give access to spaces classified as BOOKS.
422 Non-Book Materials
Definition: A room (or prorated portion of a room) containing shelving or other storage facilities used to provide the orderly collection of non-book materials.
Description: Include spaces used for the storage of non-book materials such as maps, photographs, manuscripts, newspapers, microfilm, recordings, films, slides and archives.
Limitations: Exclude space occupied by library processing rooms used to produce and catalogue microfilm and other non-book materials.
440 LIBRARY PROCESSING ROOMS
441 Service Desk Area
Definition: A room (or prorated portion of a room) staffed by library personnel for the purpose of issuing books and other library materials or providing information to students and staff.
Description: Include reference and circulation desks, areas providing playback equipment for distribution to listening stations, and areas providing traffic space for individuals receiving issued materials.
Limitations: Spaces classified in this category are limited to library public services.
442 Card Catalogue Areas
Definition: A room (or prorated portion of a room) for the use of students and staff which provides a means of access to books and other library materials.
Description: Include spaces containing card catalogues, index tables, and reference guides such as READER’S GUIDE TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE and BOOKS IN PRINT.
Limitations: This category does not include the processing room where the actual cataloguing is done. Spaces classified in this category are limited to library public service.
443 Processing Areas
Definition: A room which serves as a supporting service to the operation of the library.
Description: Included in this category are rooms generally referred to as bookbinding, microfilm processing, cataloguing process areas, and other spaces used to process books and materials for use in the library.
Limitations: This category does not include such library spaces as: offices for staff, campus-wide or centralized audio-visual preparation areas, central bookbinding, and central microfilm processing areas (see 700 – Supporting Facilities).
500 – SPECIAL USE FACILITIES
Special use facilities are those types of spaces that are generally thought of and referred to as instructional related space. Their main function is to support the instructional programs of an institution.
510 ARMORY FACILITIES
511 Armory
Definition: A room (or area) used by ROTC units.
Description: This category includes indoor drill areas, rifle ranges, and special purpose military science rooms.
Limitations: Classrooms, class laboratories, and offices in an Armory are designated as classrooms, class laboratories and offices.
520 ATHLETIC – PHYSICAL EDUCATION FACILITIES
521 Athletic Activity Area
Definition: An area used by students, staff, or public for the instructional activities of physical education and/or for intercollegiate athletics.
Description: Activity areas include wrestling rooms, instructional dance rooms, gymnasiums, handball courts, weight rooms, gymnastic areas, field houses, indoor track and field areas, etc.
Limitations: This category does not include classrooms, class laboratories or offices even though they may be located in an athletic building. This category does NOT include spectator seating areas or service areas associated with athletic facilities.
522 Swimming Pool
Definition: Indoor pool areas and deck areas around the pool(s) used for either instructional and/or recreational purposes.
Description: Include all indoor swimming pools used for instruction, recreation or intercollegiate sports.
Limitations: Spectator seating areas and service areas are to be excluded from this category of space.
523 Athletic Facilities – Spectator Seating
Definition: The seating area used by students, staff, or the public to watch athletic events.
Description: Included in this category are permanent seating areas in field houses, gymnasia and natatoria. Stadia with covered seating can also be included.
Limitations: This category does not include temporary or movable seating areas or seating areas in outdoor stadia.
530 AUDIO-VISUAL, RADIO, TV FACILITIES
531 Media Production Facilities
Definition: A room or group of rooms used in the production and distribution of instructional media.
Description: This category includes rooms generally referred to as TV studios, radio studios, sound studios, graphic studios, video or audio cassette and software production or distribution rooms and media centers. These rooms have a clearly defined production or distribution function that serves a broader area (e.g., department, entire campus) than would a typical service room. These rooms are usually staffed and operated by personnel other than students.
Limitations: Do not include rooms that merely store media materials and equipment. Studios used primarily as part of an instructional program to train students in communication techniques should be classified as Class Laboratories (if scheduled) or Open Laboratories (if not scheduled).
540 CLINIC FACILITIES – NON-MEDICAL
541 Speech, Hearing, Reading Room
Definition: A multi-purpose room used for diagnosis, testing, evaluations, counseling, and therapy relating to the areas of speaking, reading, hearing and mental health in a program other than medicine (human or veterinary), dentistry, and student health care.
Description: Clinic facilities are typically associated with such educational areas as psychology, speech and hearing, remedial reading, and remedial writing.
Limitations: This category does not include clinics associated with student health care. It does not include clinics for the medical or dental treatment of humans or animals.
542 Consultation Room
Definition: A room used for meetings and interviews between the staff of the clinic and those using the clinic facilities.
Description: Include in this category rooms in which a staff member interviews patients and/or relatives concerning treatment, training, progress, etc., of the patient.
Limitations: Do NOT include rooms used for testing, evaluating, etc., which should be coded 541, Speech, Hearing, Reading Room.
543 Clinical Therapy Room
Definition: A room used for treatment, therapy or instruction of patients under controlled conditions.
Description: Include rooms containing specialized furnishings and/or equipment for the controlled study and observation of patients.
Limitations: Do NOT include in this category examining-treatment rooms, consultation rooms, or speech, hearing, reading rooms.
550 DEMONSTRATION FACILITIES
551 Demonstration Facility
Definition: A room (or group of rooms) used to practice the principles of certain subject matter areas, particularly teaching, home management and supervising and operating pre-school nurseries.
Description: This category includes demonstration schools, laboratory schools and nurseries if the facilities support the training of college-level students involved as teachers. This category includes home management houses which serve to train college-level students in home management.
Limitations: Demonstration schools, laboratory schools, nurseries and home management houses in which the students serve as the subjects for a research study are classified as non-class laboratories. Rooms which serve elementary or secondary school students (in a laboratory school) will not be classified as classroom, class laboratory, office, etc., but rather as laboratory school. However, classrooms or class laboratories in such facilities used primarily for college-level students should be classified as classrooms and class laboratories. Office and conference rooms used by college-level staff should be designated as office and conference room.
560 FIELD SERVICE FACILITIES
561 Agriculture Field Activities
Definition: Structures for animal shelters or the handling, storage, and/or protection of farm products, supplies and tools.
Description: This category includes barns, animal shelters, sheds, silos, feed units, hay storage, and seed houses. Structures are typically (but not necessarily) of light frame construction with unfinished interiors, characteristic of (but not confined to) agricultural field activities, generally (but not always) located outside the central campus and related more to the scope and scale of field operations than to the character and magnitude of instructional programs. Area includes all assignable floor area.
Limitations: Finished rooms such as endocrine or dairy research laboratories, offices, shops etc., should be classified as non-class laboratories, offices or shops.
570 ANIMAL FACILITIES
571 Animal Quarters
Definition: A centralized support facility which supplies laboratory animals, fish, etc., to the various academic disciplines.
Description: This category includes rooms generally referred to as animal rooms, cage rooms, stalls, wards, and similar rooms used to house animals (including fish) intended for use in Class Laboratories, Non-Class Laboratories, or Open Laboratories. Animal quarters are typically subject to the rules and regulations of agencies regarding the care and use of laboratory animals (e.g., AALAC requirements).
Limitations: This category does not include areas for the treatment of patient animals (see Health Care Facilities – 800). Do not include agricultural field buildings sheltering farm animals that do not directly support instruction or research.
580 GREENHOUSE FACILITIES
581 Greenhouse
Definition: A room (or building) made largely of glass or other light transmitting material and in which the temperature and humidity can be regulated for the cultivation of plants.
Description: Include those areas designed as greenhouses which are used for the cultivation or protection of plants. The function of the greenhouse is typically to serve laboratories or other facilities used for educational or research purposes.
Limitations: Greenhouse areas which are physically attached and/or are part of another building and serve a type of space in the building would be classified as a service area for the type of space served.
590 OTHER SPECIAL USE FACILITIES
592 Interview Room
Definition: A room used primarily for interviews.
Description: Include in this category rooms in which interviews take place (usually between a faculty or staff member and a student or prospective employee). Included would be rooms in the Placement office, Business office, Personnel office, etc., used for interviewing.
Limitations: Do not include rooms in clinic areas which would be coded as either consultation room or speech, hearing, reading room.
593 Other Special Use Facilities
Definition: A category of last resort.
Description: This category should be used for areas that are a one-of-a-kind or special situation type of space. (For example, there may be a centralized shop that is neither a physical plant shop nor a shop related to another kind of space. In this case it would be coded SHOP 593.) Although this 593 code is titled “Other Special Use Facilities,” when it is used the actual name of the space will be inserted in the type of space name column (e.g., Shop 593, Locker Room 073, etc.).
Limitations: Do not use this category unless the space cannot be coded to any other type of space code.
600 – GENERAL USE FACILITIES
General use facilities are those types of spaces generally associated with student related activities. These general use facilities are the supporting services for the general student body.
610 ASSEMBLY FACILITIES
611 Auditorium or Theater
Definition: A room designed and equipped with a stage for presenting dramatic, musical, devotional, or livestock judging activities to the public.
Description: This category includes rooms with seating oriented toward some focal point generally referred to as theaters, auditoriums, concert halls, arenas, chapels, and (livestock) judging pavilions. This category should include the seating areas, stage, orchestra pit and aisles. Institutions may wish to separate the seating area from the stage and other specially configured areas through the use of other codes.
Limitations: These rooms are distinguished from lecture rooms on the basis of primary use. As previously indicated under Classroom (code 111), if the seating is regularly used for scheduled class meetings, it should be classified as instructional space.
620 EXHIBITION FACILITIES
621 Display-Exhibition Room
Definition: A room used for exhibits and displays of works of art, artifacts, etc.
Description: This category includes museums, art galleries, and similar exhibition areas which are used to display materials and items for viewing by both the institutional population and the public.
Limitations: Study collections not primarily for general exhibition such as departmental displays of anthropological, botanical, or geological specimens should be classified under an appropriate category associated with that exhibition facility.
622 Departmental Specimen Collection
Definition: A room for the orderly, on-going collection of specimens used by an academic department to actively support its teaching, research and/or public service.
Description: The space contains shelving or other facilities for storing specimens. The space is essentially a permanent working museum or library of specimens (collection) for the use of the whole department. The specimens (collection) may be made available to other departments or outside agencies. Access may be extended to the general public but that is not the primary purpose of the collection. Include spaces housing extensive collections of plants, animals, rocks, soil samples, artifacts, etc.
Limitations: Research experimentation is NOT conducted in the room. Do not include spaces that house specimens in non-active long-term storage, or those being kept only to conduct a research project. Do not include the housing for live animals kept for use in research or for public displays (see ANIMAL QUARTERS and EXHIBITION FACILITIES).
630 FOOD FACILITIES
631 Cafeteria
Definition: A room in which food is displayed on counters and patrons usually serve themselves.
Description: Include rooms where the food serving area and the seating areas are generally located in the same or adjoining rooms.
Limitations: This category is limited to facilities which are open to the student body and/or public at large. Dining halls in residence halls (or separate facilities serving a group of residence halls) are classified as residential. Do not include serving areas as part of cafeteria if the serving areas are physically separated from the cafeteria seating.
632 Snack Bar
Definition: A room in which a patron can get quick service consisting of easy to prepare or already prepared food.
Description: Included in this category are food facilities that serve light meals such as sandwiches, hamburgers, etc. Include both the food serving and seating areas as snack bar if they are located in the same room.
Limitations: This category is limited to facilities which are open to the student body and/or public at large. Do not include serving areas as part of snack bar if the serving area is physically separated from the snack bar seating.
633 Dining Room
Definition: A room used for eating meals.
Description: Included would be dining areas where a patron gives their order and the food is brought to their table.
Limitations: This category is limited to facilities open to the student body and/or the public. Do NOT include cafeteria, snack bar or residential dining under this category.
640 DAY CARE FACILITIES
641 Day Care Center
Definition: A room (or group of rooms) set aside by the institution to provide day or night, child or elderly adult care as a non-medical service to members of the institutional community.
Description: Include all primary activity rooms that provide oversight, supervision, developmental training and general personal care for children or adults (e.g., play areas, non-staff eating areas, and child training rooms). This type of facility serves as a central service center for faculty, staff, and students, and possibly members of the community.
Limitations: Do not include in this category of space pre-school nurseries if the facilities support the training of college level students.
650 LOUNGE FACILITIES
651 Lounge
Definition: A room used for rest and relaxation.
Description: Spaces in student unions or other non-residential buildings used for relaxation, informal meetings, etc., such as Honors College or graduate student lounge. A large waiting room used by patients in medical or dental facilities. A lounge is typically equipped with upholstered furniture, draperies and carpeting.
Limitations: A “lounge” area associated with a toilet is non-assigned space and classified as a restroom. Lounge areas in residence halls are classified under residence hall.
653 Break Room
Definition: A coffee/break room used by faculty, staff, and student employees.
Description: These rooms are typically equipped with tables and chairs for brief coffee breaks. They may contain kitchen equipment such as refrigerators and microwaves.
Limitation: Distinguished from Lounge (651), which is used for rest and relaxation and typically has more formal furnishings. If the break room contains vending machines, prorate the space with 096 Vending Machines.
660 MERCHANDISING FACILITIES
661 Bookstore
Definition: A room (or group of rooms) used to sell products or services.
Description: Include rooms where books, other school supplies, stationery, office supplies, and in many cases, various and sundry products are sold to students and/or the public at large.
Limitations: This category does not include food facilities, snack bars or concession areas.
663 Concession Area
Definition: A room or space in which food items and/or sundry merchandise is sold to the student body and/or public at large.
Description: Generally this type of space is found in athletic facilities or in student unions. These areas generally serve the student body as a service function or the public while attending a particular event.
Limitations: This category does not include bookstore or food facilities.
664 Retail Outlet
Definition: A room or area which is rented or leased to a merchant or dealer who provides services or goods primarily to the student body and may be available to the general public.
Description: Included would be rooms such as barber or beauty shops, post offices, coffee houses, etc., which are leased by an outside vendor.
Limitations: Do not include in this category those merchandising facilities which are classified as concessions, bookstore or food facilities and operated by divisions of the institution.
670 RECREATION FACILITIES
671 Recreation Room
Definition: A room (or group of rooms) usually found in the student union and used for recreational purposes by the student body and/or public at large.
Description: Included in this category are those rooms (usually found in the student union) containing game equipment such as ping-pong tables, pool tables, etc.
Limitations: This category does not include spaces in residence halls or cooperatives (see 900 – Residential Facilities) or in athletic facilities.
672 Multi-Purpose Room
Definition: A large room or hall used for social and institutional activities.
Description: Included in this category are areas used for student dances, guest lectures, movies, banquets, other social functions, study halls, registration activities, etc.
Limitations: This category does not include lecture halls used for instructional purposes.
673 Bowling Alley
Definition: A room or area containing the equipment and fixtures necessary for bowling.
674 Activity Room
Definition: A room used by students, staff or faculty for activity purposes.
Description: This category includes student body offices, student publication offices and other student and faculty/staff activity areas.
Limitations: This category does not include rooms which fit logically into another category, e.g., office storage, gym or gym service areas, etc. It does not include outside facilities such as tennis courts, archery ranges, fields (hockey, football, etc.) or golf courses.
680 MEETING ROOM FACILITIES
681 Meeting Room
Definition: A room used for a variety of non-class meetings.
Description: A meeting room may be equipped with tables and chairs, lounge type furniture, straight-back chairs, and/or tablet arm chairs. Although it may be assigned to a specific organizational unit, it is used primarily by groups for general purposes such as student senate, student government, community groups, short term meetings, etc. A meeting room is distinguished from a conference room (code 351) because conference rooms are considered part of an office complex and are generally used for staff meetings or other departmental non-class activities.
Limitations: Do not include conference rooms which serve an office complex or seminar rooms which are regularly scheduled for class meetings.
700 SUPPORTING FACILITIES
Supporting facilities are those types of spaces that generally support the entire institution by providing the necessary services and facilities for the day-to-day operation of the institution.
710 Computer Facilities
711 Mainframe Room
Definition: A room containing one or more large computer systems consisting of many peripherals and devices.
Description: The system may fill one or more rooms and have peripherals located at remote locations. These rooms normally require a controlled environment.
Limitations: A computer facility used only for instruction should be classified as a class laboratory. A facility used for instructional, research and/or administrative computing should be included in this category. (NOTE: The proration of facilities in this category to “instruction,” research,” “public service,” “general administration,” etc., can be accomplished separately by the classification of USE CODE, i.e., independently of this room-type classification.)
712 Minicomputer Room
Definition: A room containing one or more medium (desk-sized) computer systems with a number of connected terminals and/or other peripherals.
Description: These rooms may be a stand alone unit or be networked to other systems. These rooms generally will require a controlled environment.
713 Terminal Room
Definition: A room used for the transmitting and receiving of data from a computer and which is located apart from the computer.
Description: This category includes rooms which contain equipment to enable the user to transmit or receive data from a computer.
Limitations: This category does not include rooms which contain teletype or other equipment which does not tie directly into a computer. Do not include rooms used for instruction in the use of this type of equipment. These would be class laboratories.
714 Microcomputer Room
Definition: A room containing one or more small (desktop) computer systems.
Description: The computer system in the room may be a stand alone unit or be networked to other like or larger systems. May include printers, tape or disk storage units, and other peripherals.
Limitations: A room or area that contains a microcomputer that is incidental to the main function of the space would not be categorized as a Microcomputer Room.
716 Telecommunications Room
Definition: A room or area (facility) to house telecommunications equipment.
Description: This category includes central telephone switching rooms, data network distribution centers and intermediate distribution facilities (telecommunications closets).
Limitations: Do not include departmental telephone reception areas, campus operators, etc.
720 Shop Facilities
721 Physical Plant Shops
Definition: A room used for the manufacture or maintenance of products and equipment.
Description: This category includes such rooms as carpenter shops, plumbing shops, electrical shops, paint shops and other maintenance or physical plant shops.
Limitations: This category does not include instructional shops; industrial arts and vocational-technical shops used for instruction would be classified as class laboratories. Highly specialized shops for the production of scientific apparatus and equipment should be classified as laboratory service (219, 229, 239 or 259). Materials preparation areas in audio-visual, radio stations, and TV studios should be classified as Media Production facilities. Maintenance and repair areas of vehicles, airplanes, boats, etc., should be classified as vehicle storage service.
730 Storage Facilities
731 Warehouse
Definition: A room used to store materials.
Description: Include in this category those central storage areas where materials are received and stored until distributed to the various departments. The length of time that the materials are stored can vary from a few hours to many months.
732 Storage
Definition: A room used to store materials.
Description: Include in this category those storage areas for materials that are used only occasionally but by their nature or the demands placed upon them by the program, should be close at hand. Also included would be dead storage areas.
Limitations: Do not include storage facilities that are used to keep office supplies or paper supplies, etc., which may be used on a day-to-day basis (see Stockroom -088.)
740 Vehicle Storage
741 Garage
Definition: A room (or structure) used to store vehicles.
Description: This category includes rooms generally referred to as garages, sheds, and other storage areas for vehicles (broadly defined).
Limitations: This category does not include portions of barns or similar field service facilities which are used to house farm implements. It does not include parking structures which are used for the temporary parking of vehicles on a day-to-day basis.
742 Boathouse
Definition: A room (or structure) used to store boats.
Description: Included in this category are those areas referred to as boat houses which are used for the storage of canoes, rowing shells, etc.
743 Parking Structure
Definition: Floor space allocated for the parking of motor vehicles or related wheeled or tracked apparatus of any kind.
Description: This category includes any area within a building or structure used by staff, faculty, students, or public for automobiles, busses, trucks, etc. Include as assignable square feet the net area of all floor surfaces in such buildings or structures used for parking, including unroofed, unwalled, or partially walled areas typified by the top parking level of a parking structure, and the roofed, unwalled or partially walled areas typified by the intermediate or ground levels of a multi-story parking structure or a single level vehicle shelter. Include in the inventory the number of parking stations available.
Limitations: This category does not include parking or storage areas in a garage or car pool building operated by the physical plant department as part of the maintenance and repair function. Also, it does not include storage sheds for farm equipment such as tractors, combines, etc.
751 Central Duplicating Services
Definition: A room (or group of rooms) containing specialized equipment for printing or making exact copies or replicas of materials such as pictures, letters, drawings, etc.
Description: Included in this category are central duplicating areas which provide services to the institutional community. Also included are rooms which contain machines for printing from inked type, plates, or rolls. Include only central printing areas which provide for the production of printed matter as a service to the institution. Included would be such rooms as composing room (typesetting), pressroom (presses), and bindery (folding, trimming, and binding of books and rebinding of books).
Limitations: Do not include in this category those duplicating or mimeograph rooms which are controlled by departments for their own use.
752 Central Mail Services
Definition: A central facility (room or group of rooms) for the receiving and distribution of mail to the institution.
Description: This category is limited to the central mail receiving and distribution facilities of an institution. Includes areas for US mail as well as inter and intra campus mail. The mail is sorted here and delivered via the campus mail system or is prepared for off campus distribution.
Limitations: Do not include departmental mailrooms, US Postal facilities or residence hall mailroom facilities.
761 Hazardous Materials
Definition: A centralized facility used for the storing, treatment, or disposal of hazardous or toxic waste materials.
Description: A room dedicated to the storage, treatment, or disposal of substances or mixture of substances having properties capable of producing adverse effects on the health or safety of humans or animals. These materials may be chemical, biological or radioactive in nature.
Limitations: This category does not include temporary storage or disposal sites located near or adjacent to instructional or research facilities. A room used for the storage of hazardous materials that is not a central facility should be classified as a related service area to the instructional or research facilities that it serves.
771 Recycling Area
Definition: A room that serves as a depository for recycled materials waiting to be taken to a recycle center.
Description: This category includes those rooms that are used to place recycled materials in until such time as they are removed to a recycling center.
Limitations: Do not include rooms that have a recycle box or barrel in them for use by a department or building resident.
800 HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
Health care facilities are those types of spaces that are associated with student health facilities, medical or dental schools, and veterinary facilities.
811 Patient Bedroom
Definition: A room equipped with a bed and used for patient care.
Description: This category includes general nursing care, acute care, semiconvalescent/ rehabilitative adult or pediatric bedrooms, intensive care units, progressive coronary care units, observation units, infant care nurseries, incubator units, wards, etc. Connected clothes closets are included. Stalls for animal patients are also included.
Limitation: Do not include student residence quarters, staff on-call rooms for resting and sleeping, non-patient animal shelters used for farm animals or non-veterinary school laboratory animal shelters.
812 Patient Day Room
Definition: A room in patient care units equipped to function as a combination parlor- waiting area.
Limitations: Do not include public waiting rooms (code 881).
821 Patient Toilet/Bath
Definition: A room containing patient bath and toilet facilities.
Description: Included in this category are toilet/bath facilities adjoining or in conjunction with patient bedrooms. Animal cleaning rooms in veterinary schools are included in this classification unless used specifically for surgery preparation.
Limitations: Public and private toilet facilities serving other than patient bedrooms are excluded. Special tub rooms used by nursing staff for cleaning patients are classified as nurse station service.
831 Nurse Station
Definition: A room or area used by nurses or other patient care staff who are supervising or administering health care services.
Description: A center of nursing work and administration involving one floor only, usually occupied by a head nurse (with assistants) concerned with patients’ charts and miscellaneous nursing functions.
Limitations: Do not include in this category rooms used by nurses to prepare patient treatments, medications, etc. Rooms that can be identified as offices should be coded to the appropriate office classification.
841 Surgical
Definition: A room used for surgery.
Description: Included in this category are major and minor surgery rooms, delivery rooms, special procedures operating rooms, etc. These rooms are typically equipped with operating room tables, sterile lights, anesthesia machines and various types of monitoring equipment. Also includes rooms in veterinary facilities typically referred to as large animal surgery, small animal surgery, bovine surgery, bull surgery, etc.
Limitations: Do not include in this category autopsy rooms, various surgery support rooms, rooms used for minor invasive procedures (e.g., blood withdrawal, cardiac catheterization) or class laboratories where students work on cadavers.
851 Examining Room
Definition: A room used for diagnostic examinations or combination diagnostic examinations and therapeutic treatment.
Description: Included are rooms used to give medical examinations and includes rooms used for radiology, fluoroscopy, pulmonary function/vascular testing, EEG, ECG, EMG, etc. In veterinary facilities, rooms commonly called small or large animal X-ray, small or large animal examination rooms, etc. are included.
Limitations: This category does not include observation rooms or surgical rooms or rooms used primarily for therapeutic treatment.
852 Therapeutic/Treatment Room
Definition: A room used primarily for the treatment of patients for the control of disease or for physical or occupational therapy.
Description: Include rooms used for dialysis, cardiac catheterization, radiation therapy, etc. In veterinary facilities, rooms commonly called isolation treatment, small or large animal treatment, swine treatment, etc. are included.
Limitations: Do not include rooms used for examinations or examination/treatment rooms when the therapeutic treatment function is not primary.
861 Diagnostic Laboratory
Definition: A room outfitted with wet laboratory facilities used to provide diagnostic support services to health care facilities.
Description: Includes rooms generally referred to as pathology labs, pharmacy labs autopsy labs, etc., such as hematology, chemistry tissue, bacteriology, serology, etc. Also includes areas commonly termed canine, feline, poultry, bovine or equine necropsy rooms in veterinary facilities.
Limitations: This category does not include class laboratories (211) or other laboratories (221), or other facilities used primarily for organized instruction or non-patient care functions.
862 Diagnostic Services
Definition: A room used for diagnostic services that do not require wet laboratory facilities.
871 Hospital Storeroom/Storage
Definition: A room used to store supplies for health care facilities only such as teaching hospitals, outpatient clinics, dental schools, veterinary schools, etc.
Description: This classification, which serves a central storage or supply function, applies only to health care materials and supplies in a health care facility. Include such rooms as central supply rooms, pharmacy supplies/storage/dispensary, linen storage, etc.
Limitations: Do not include rooms used to store supplies for student health centers.
872 Supplies
Definition: A room used to store supplies for student health care facilities.
Description: Include central supply rooms, pharmacy supplies/storage and dispensary, miscellaneous storage of a relatively inactive nature, other than that included in other primary service room types. Applies only to student health care facilities.
Limitations: Do not include rooms used to store supplies for health care facilities related to teaching hospitals, outpatient clinics, dental schools, veterinary schools, etc.
881 Public Waiting Room
Definition: A room used by the public to await admission, treatment, or information.
Description: Include such spaces as waiting and reception areas, visiting areas, and viewing areas.
Limitations: Lounges (651) and lobbies (023) are excluded from this category.
891 Staff On-Call Facility
Definition: 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: Include areas or rooms used by doctors, nurses, emergency medical technicians, 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 in that the on-call facilities have specific provisions made for sleeping and use is restricted to staff who typically work a long shift. Excludes patient bedrooms.
900 RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES
Residential facilities are those spaces used to house undergraduate and graduate students and occasionally faculty or staff members. This category could include residences that are owned by an institution but are occupied by non-institutional personnel.
921 Sleeping-Study Room
Definition: A room or area which is designated as living quarters for students or staff.
Description: Included in this category are sleeping rooms (both group and individual), study rooms, or combined sleeping-study rooms in residence halls, cooperatives and/or field buildings which are designated as living quarters for students or physicians (interns, resident physicians, etc.) or staff, including spaces assigned for one or more faculty members or students to serve as counselors in residence halls.
922 Residential Staff
Definition: An apartment or living quarters assigned to managers, head residents, or student counselors in single student residence halls or cooperatives.
Description: The space will generally include a kitchenette, bath and sleeping area.
Limitations: Spaces in older residence halls which are assigned to student counselors and which have not been specifically designed as quarters for counselors will be coded as sleeping-study room (921).
923 Guest Room
Definition: A space reserved for guests of students or staff.
Description: These rooms normally will include a sleeping area, bath and possibly a kitchenette.
Limitations: This space is not to be confused with a manager-head resident room.
924 Resident Lounge
Definition: A space in residence facilities used for relaxation, informal meetings, etc.
Description: A lounge is typically equipped with upholstered furniture, draperies, and carpeting.
925 Game-Social Room
Definition: A room (or group of rooms) in residence facilities used for recreational purposes by the occupants of the residence facilities.
Description: This category includes rooms containing game equipment such as pool tables, ping-pong tables, card tables, etc.
Limitations: This category is for residential facilities only.
926 Living Suite
Definition: A room (or group of rooms) in a residence facility used as a living area.
Description: This category includes rooms in a suite such as bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchenettes, living room, etc. An apartment style housing unit.
Limitations: This category does not include apartment style Student Family Housing or Faculty-Staff Housing.
930 Food Service Facilities in Residence Facilities
931 Resident Dining Room
Definition: A room used for eating meals.
Description: Includes cooperative and residence hall dining areas or cafeterias.
Limitations: This category is limited to facilities serving residence facilities.
940 Family Dwellings
941 Family Student Housing
Definition: A residence facility assigned or rented to a married student or a student with minor dependents.
Description: Include in this category all family dwellings owned by the institution and rented to married students or students with dependents. Include all types of residences (apartments, duplexes, triplexes, etc.) used to house married students or students with dependent children.
Limitations: This category does not include residences rented or leased to non-institutional personnel.
942 Faculty-Staff Housing
Definition: A residence assigned or rented to administrators, caretakers, faculty or staff.
Description: This category includes houses of the Chancellor, institutional presidents, etc., and all other institutionally owned residences rented to other personnel connected with an institution such as faculty and staff. This category could be used to code residence owned by the institution but rented or leased to non-institutional personnel.