TYPE AND RELATED SERVICE CODES
TYPE CODES 100-999 (alpha sequence)
Related Service Codes 50-99 (italicized)
SUPPORT SPACES (TO BE USED WITH RELATED SERVICE CODES)
119 Classroom Facilities Support
219 Class Laboratory Facilities Support
229 Open Laboratory Facilities Support
239 Individual Study Laboratory Facilities Support
259 Non-Class Laboratory Facilities Support
319 Office Facilities Support
359 Conference Room Facilities Support
459 Study Facilities Support
519 Armory Facilities Support
529 Athletic-PE Facilities Support
539 Media Production Facilities Support
549 Clinic Facilities Support - Non-Medical
579 Animal Facilities Support
589 Greenhouse Facilities Support
599 Other Special Use Facilities Support
619 Assembly Facilities Support
629 Exhibition Facilities Support
639 Food Facilities Support
649 Day Care Center Facilities Support
659 Lounge/Break Room Facilities Support
669 Merchandising Facilities Support
679 Recreation Facilities Support
689 Meeting Room Facilities Support
719 Computer Facilities Support (Central)
729 Shop Facilities Support
739 Storage Facilities Support
749 Vehicle Storage Facilities Support
769 Hazardous Materials Facilities Support
839 Nurse Station Facilities Support
859 Treatment/Examination Facilities Support
869 Diagnostic Laboratory Facilities Support
879 Health Services Supplies Facilities Support
899 Health Care Facilities Support
929 Residence Hall Facilities Support
939 Food Service Facilities Support
949 Family Housing Facilities Support
959 Grad Student Facilities Support
TYPE CODE DEFINITIONS
000 - NON-ASSIGNABLE
Non-assignable areas are those types of space that are necessary for the general use and operation of a building but are not assigned to any organizational unit. Generally, departmental-level users should not be entering non-assignable spaces into the database.
010 Custodial Areas
011 Shipping-Receiving Room
Definition: A room used for the transit of materials and supplies into or out of a building.
Description: Include rooms or areas used for receiving materials, equipment, or supplies 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
Definition: Room(s) used for the servicing of a building.
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: An interior passageway, generally defined by walls, onto which rooms open.
Description: Halls or corridors should include all circulation spaces well defined either by walls or partitions, provided they are used for general access.
Limitations: Circulation paths necessary for movement within large, open office areas should not be coded as halls or corridors, but should be included in the office's program space.
022 Elevator
Definition: An elevator car used for transportation of freight or passengers from floor to floor. Include same square footage at each floor level.
023 Lobby
Definition: An area used for general circulation and access to other parts of a building.
Description: Include areas that typically are 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 or set of rooms within a building.
Description: Include such areas as a building's enclosed entrance that consists of two sets of doors or an area which serves as an entrance to another area.
026 Ramp
Definition: An inclined passageway or corridor of slope built to Americans with Disabilities Act standards.
Description: Includes only those spaces that are clearly part of a building's internal circulation plan or are required by accessibility standards to provide barrier-free access to a space.
030 Mechanical Areas
031 Mechanical-Electrical Room
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 (Type 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.
Limitations: Do not include restrooms or toilet rooms adjoining private offices, those designated specifically for research subjects, clinic clients, of health care patients, or those that are part of residence hall student rooms; these should be coded as Related Service "Toilet Room/Shower Room (86)", with the appropriate Type Code (e.g., 319, 259, 549, 899, etc.)
033 Central Utility Plant
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).
034 Elevator Equipment Room
Definition: A room containing mechanical equipment related to the operation of a building elevator.
040 Inactive Areas
041 Inactive
Definition: Those rooms in the process of conversion, completion, or reassignment and not available for use at the time of the space survey. Also may be used for permanently inactive spaces for reasons such as inaccessibility (under 3' in height), non-load- bearing attic spaces, etc.
100 - CLASSROOM FACILITIES
110 Classrooms
Definition: A room used for formally scheduled class meetings, is subject to regular assignment by the Registrar and/or academic unit, and does not require special-purpose equipment that renders the room unsuitable for use by other areas of study.
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 are instructional rooms scheduled by departments, as well as those controlled jointly with the Registrar. Also included are classrooms that may contain multimedia or telecommunications equipment or are 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 that have been set aside for a specific non-credit program.
Limitations: This category does not include conference rooms (Type 351), class laboratories (Type 211), or auditoriums (Type 611) used for other than instructional purposes.
112 Seminar Room
Definition: A room normally equipped with a table and chairs that is subject to regular assignment by the Registrar and/or academic department.
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.
119 Classroom Facilities Support
Definition: A room that directly serves a classroom or seminar room as an extension of the activities of those areas.
Description: Include such areas as projection booths, closets, preparation rooms, stockrooms, etc., if they serve a classroom or seminar room.
200 - LABORATORY FACILITIES
210 Class Laboratories
211 Class Laboratory
Definition: A room used by regularly scheduled classes requiring special-purpose equipment for student participation, experimentation, observation, or practice in a particular 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, 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 serving as individual (or independent) study rooms. It does NOT include laboratories used for informally or irregularly scheduled group instruction. 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.
219 Class Laboratory Facilities Support
Definition: A room that directly serves a class laboratory as an extension of the activities of the class laboratory.
Description: Include such rooms as environmental control rooms (069), stockrooms (088), darkrooms (078), preparation rooms (079), etc., that serve a class laboratory.
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 requiring 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, or (group) studios that are not regularly scheduled.
Limitations: This category does not include class laboratories (Type 211), individual study laboratories (Type Category 230), or non-class laboratories (Type Category 250). It does NOT include athletic activity areas such as gymnasiums (see Type 521), swimming pools (Type 522), teaching clinics (Type Category 540), and similar facilities.
222 Audio-Visual Studio/Media Room
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 usually under the control of the Library's Center for Media and Educational Technology and which generally are scheduled by academic departments for showing films or listening to recorded materials. May also be used to describe athletic media rooms for athletic game review and study by coaches and student athletes.
Limitations: Exclude rooms equipped for individual listening (Type 413).
229 Open Laboratory Facilities Support
Definition: A room directly serving an Open Laboratory (Type 221) or an Audio-Visual Studio (Type 222) as an extension of the activities such facilities.
Description: Include rooms that serve Open Laboratories such as computer-related rooms (052), audio control rooms (060), or preparation rooms (079).
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) that serve a particular subject matter area. These rooms, which may have multiple stations, are normally assigned to individuals for their own use.
Limitations: This category does not include individual study facilities intended for general study purposes.
232 Student Practice Room
Definition: A specially equipped 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 generally is not assigned to any particular individual.
Limitations: A music studio assigned to a faculty member that serves as a combination faculty office and music studio should be classified as Faculty Office (Type 312). This category does not include music studios that generally are larger than the music practice room and are designed to accommodate several persons at one time.
239 Individual Study Laboratory Facilities Support
Definition: A room that directly serves an Individual Study Laboratory or a student practice room(s) as an extension of the activities in such a facility.
Limitations: This category does not include rooms that serve study facilities in the library (Type Category 400 - Study Facilities).
250 Non-Class Laboratories
251 Non-Class Laboratory
Definition: A room used for laboratory applications, research, or training in research methodology that require special purpose equipment for staff or student experimentation or observation.
Description: Included in this category are rooms generally referred to as research laboratories. 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 employees 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 Laboratory (Type 211), Open Laboratory (Type 221), and Individual Study Laboratories (Types 231, 232).
252 Electron Microscope Room
Definition: A room used for laboratory applications, research, or training in research methodologies that require an electron microscope and related equipment for staff or student experimentation or observation.
Description: Included are rooms containing any electron-optical instrument.
Limitations: Do not include rooms that contain only light-optical or other imaging devices.
259 Non-Class Laboratory Facilities Support
Definition: A room directly serving a Non-Class Laboratory as an extension of the activities of the Non-Class Laboratory.
Description: Include computer rooms (052), stockrooms (088), animal quarters (051), environmental control rooms (059), etc., which serve a Non-Class Laboratory.
300 - OFFICE FACILITIES
310 Offices
310 Designated Department Head Office
Definition: A room used by department heads specifically for the performance of departmental administrative duties within an academic department.
Description: These particular offices are dedicated solely for the department head's performance of the duties of that position and generally are sited within the department's main office complex.
Limitations: Do not include offices of other executive-level personnel. Do not include a faculty office (Type 312) if the faculty member is serving as a department head but does not have another office designated specifically for that function.
311 Administrative Office
Definition: A room used by administrative personnel for the performance of administrative duties.
Description: Include rooms generally referred to as the offices of presidents, all deans, associate and assistant deans, registrars, directors, and other officers of administration.
Limitations: Do not include classified offices (see type 313) 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, excluding heads of instructional departments (see Type 310). Included are associate and assistant deans budgeted to other than instruction and serving a portion of the institution, instructors, adjunct instructors, emeriti, visiting and courtesy faculty appointments, and post doctorate fellows for instructional or research purposes, instructional preparation, counseling, etc. A studio in the departments 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.
313 Staff Office
Definition: An office used by classified staff personnel in the performance of their regularly assigned duties.
Description: Include rooms generally occupied by classified personnel including clerical, receptionist, or temporary personnel in similar positions. Include in this category space where any general office machines or files are in the same room with clerical personnel and where such space is incidental to the office function.
Limitations: Large rooms such as reception areas, shops, open laboratories, etc., that have a desk for a technician or staff member are coded according to the primary purpose of the room rather than a staff office. The office portion may be prorated out if desired. In large open-office areas, circulation space that functions as an integral part of the room is to be reported as part of the room, not prorated out as non-assignable circulation space.
314 Graduate Employee 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 assist with research, teaching, administrative functions, or other like classifications.
Limitations: This category does not include a work space within a laboratory if that work space is NOT separated by walls from the laboratory space. In such a case, the work space is included as part of the laboratory itself. This category also does not include space for non-employed graduate students or other paid or non-paid student workers (see Type 316).
315 Researcher Office
Definition: An office or portion of an office used by a research associate or research assistant.
Description: Include all office space occupied by employees who have the title of Research Associate, Research Assistant, Post-Doctoral Researcher, etc.
Limitations: This category does not include a work space within a laboratory if that work space is NOT separated by walls from the laboratory space. In such a case, the work space is included as part of the laboratory itself.
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 practicum, traineeship, internship, mentorship, etc.
Limitations: Offices that are occupied by graduate student employees would be classified as Graduate Student Office (see Type 314).
319 Office Facilities Support
Definition: A room serving an office (or group of offices) as an extension of the activities in an office or offices.
Description: Include workrooms, file rooms, vaults, closets, break rooms, private toilets, records rooms, office supply rooms, and waiting-reception areas, etc.
Limitations: This classification does not include campus-wide central photocopy and printing shops, which should be classified as Shop Facilities (see Type Category 720).
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: A conference room generally is equipped with a table and chairs, lounge-type furniture, or straight-back chairs. It typically (but not necessarily) is assigned to specific departments 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 useÑa room with tables and chairs used primarily for meetings as opposed to classes regularly scheduled by the Registrar. Also, do not include general purpose meeting rooms (see Type 681).
359 Conference Room Facilities Support
Definition: A room directly serving a Conference Room as an extension of the activities of that function.
Description: Include rooms such as chair storage rooms, projection rooms, etc.
400 - STUDY FACILITIES
410 Study Rooms
411 Reading/Resource Room
Definition: A resource room or area used for independent study, reading, or student research, usually with multiple computer stations, and with or without shelves around the walls. It may include provision for incidental or secondary storage or circulation and use of books, documents, and other reference and resource materials either in paper or digital form.
Description: Included in this category are general reading, resource, and study rooms, and periodical reading rooms. Also included are the prorated spaces occupied by study stations located within library open stacks. Reading rooms may be furnished with computers, tables, and chairs, individual study desks and chairs (which may provide locked storage), or lounge-type chairs. Aisle space that 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 may apply to departmental space as well as to the library.
Limitations: Excluded from this category are Study (Type 412), Listening Room (Type 413), Group Study Room (Type 414) and Media Production (see Type Category 530). Also excluded are seating and tables or shelves provided in stack areas for transitory use of library materials.
412 Study
Definition: A small room in the library designed for one or two individuals, generally located near the library stacks. Study rooms often are assigned for a specified period of time to faculty members or graduate students.
Description: Also can be used to designate miscellaneous small study areas such as seating alcoves within larger open areas.
Limitations: Individual study desks, which may or may not provide locked storage and are located in open stacks or open reading rooms, are excluded from this category and should be classified as Reading/Resource Room (Type 411).
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 that hold an occasional meetings in the library to make use of library materials.
Limitations: Exclude rooms used for individual study.
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 uncatalogued books stored on shelves that 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 that give access to these spaces but are used exclusively for traffic.
Limitations: Exclude non-book materials, such as Archives (Type 422), and books in the process of being catalogued in library processing rooms (see Type Category 440).
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 (Type 443).
440 Processing Rooms
441 Service Desk Area
Definition: A room (or prorated portion of a room) staffed by personnel for the purpose of issuing materials, monitoring entrance, or providing information to students and staff.
Description: Include library and learning commons reference and circulation desks, areas providing equipment for distribution to listening stations, service desks in open or language laboratory facilities, and areas providing traffic space for individuals receiving issued materials.
443 Processing Area
Definition: A room that provides a supporting service to the operation of a particular function such as libraries or museums.
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 non-book materials.
Limitations: This category does not include such spaces as offices for staff or campus-wide or centralized audio-visual preparation areas (see Type Category 700 - Support Facilities).
459 Study Facilities Support
Definition: A room serving study facilities (Type Category 400 - Study Facilities) as a direct extension of the activities carried on in such facilities.
Description: Included are such areas as closets, locker rooms, etc.
500 - SPECIAL USE FACILITIES
510 Armory Facilities
511 Armory
Definition: A room or area used by military science 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 (Type 111), Seminar Rooms (Type 112), Class Laboratories (Type 211), and offices (Type Category 300 - Office Facilities).
519 Armory Facilities Support
Definition: A room that directly serves an Armory facility as an extension of the activities of such a facility.
Description: This category includes supply rooms, weapons rooms, storerooms, etc.
Limitations: Classroom service (Type 319), class laboratory service (Type 219), and office service (Type 319) are so classified even though they are located in an Armory.
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 (Type 523) or service areas associated with athletic facilities (type 529).
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 (type 523) and service areas (Type 529) are to be excluded from this category of space.
523 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, indoor arenas, gymnasia, and natatoria. Outdoor stadia with covered seating also can be included.
Limitations: This category does not include temporary or movable seating areas or (uncovered) seating areas in outdoor stadia.
524 Private Viewing Box/Suite
Definition: A private room used for viewing athletic events.
Description: Included in this category should be the ancillary functions within a private viewing box, such as restroom, closet, and wet bar, rather than classifying those areas as support spaces to the primary activity.
529 Athletics-Physical Education Facilities Support
Definition: A room that serves an athletic-physical education facility as an extension of the activities of such a facility.
Description: Included in this category are rooms generally referred to as locker rooms (073), shower rooms (086), ticket booths (091), dressing rooms (057), issue rooms (068), training rooms (093), etc. This category also includes those areas located in and serving outdoor stadia or other outdoor athletic areas such as tennis courts and track and field areas.
Limitations: This category does not include public restrooms (Type 032) or concession areas (Type 663).
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, audio, or 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 (Type 211, if scheduled) or Open Laboratories (Type 221, if not scheduled).
539 Media Production Facilities Support
Definition: A room serving a Media Production facility as an extension of the activities in such a facility.
Description: Included in this category are rooms generally referred to as control room (060), darkrooms (078), etc.
Limitations: Control rooms, recording rooms and similar facilities used primarily as instruction for training students in communications techniques should be classified as Class Laboratories (Type 211, if scheduled) or Open Laboratories (Type 221, 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 student health care.
Description: Clinic facilities are typically associated with such educational areas as psychology, speech and hearing, remedial reading, and remedial writing. However, this type of room also may be associated with a research/non-class laboratory in such fields as linguistics or psychology; in such a case, it would be coded as Type 259 Non-Class Laboratory Facilities Support/Related Service 541.
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 or client. However, this type of room also may be associated with a research/non-class laboratory in such fields as linguistics or psychology; in such a case, it would be coded as Type 259/Related Service 542.
Limitations: Do NOT include rooms used for testing, evaluating, etc. (see Type 541).
543 Clinical Therapy Room
Definition: A room used for treatment, therapy, or instruction of patients or clients under controlled conditions.
Description: Include rooms containing specialized furnishings or equipment for the controlled study and observation of patients or clients.
Limitations: Do NOT include in this category examining-treatment rooms, consultation rooms, or speech, hearing, reading rooms.
549 Clinic Facilities Support
Definition: A room that directly serves clinic facilities as an extension of the activities in such facilities.
Description: Include in this category observation rooms (077) and similar supporting rooms.
Limitations: Rooms such as Examination Room (Type 851) Treatment Room (Type 852), or Patient Waiting Rooms (Type 881) within a clinic (as opposed to a health care facility/student health center, which generally are coded under 800 - Health Care Facilities) would be coded as a Related Service area for Type Category 540 Non-Medical Clinic Facilities (e.g., Type 549/Related Service 851).
570 Animal Facilities
571 Animal Facilities
Definition: A space that houses laboratory animals, fish, etc., 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. Does not include areas that directly serve facilities used for the treatment of animals (see Treatment/Examination Clinic– 850).
579 Animal Facilities Support
Definition: 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).
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 used for the cultivation or protection of plants. The function of the greenhouse typically is to serve laboratories or other facilities used for educational or research purposes.
Limitations: Greenhouse areas physically attached or are part of another building and serving an academic or research function in the building would be coded as a Greenhouse but classified as a Related Service area for the type of space served (e.g., 219/581 or 259/581).
589 Greenhouse Facilities Support
Definition: A room that directly serves a greenhouse facility as an extension of the activities in that facility.
590 Other Special Use Facilities
591 Lactation Room
Definition: A room that is shielded from view and free from intrusion and that is set aside to provide a place, other than a bathroom, for use by nursing mothers who are university students or employees.
Limitations: Excludes any room that is used exclusively but temporarily (about 1 year) as a lactation space for the special-case use of emplyees and is internal to a department (not for use by the general student body). Such space may contine to be coded with the room's primary Type Code (e.g., conference room, office, etc.).
592 Interview/Advising Room - non Clinical
Definition: A room used primarily for interviews, consultation, or advising in a non-clinical setting.
Description: Include in this category rooms in which interviews, consultation, or advising take place (usually between a faculty or staff member and a student or other non-clinical individual). Potentially included would be rooms in Student Advising (or rooms used in academic schools and colleges), UOPD, Career Center etc., used for interviewing, consulting, or advising. This type also may be used as a Related Service code for Intercollegiate Athletics Security, for which it would be coded Type 529 Athletic Facilities Support/Related Service 592.
Limitations: Do not include rooms in clinic areas, which would be coded as either Speech, Hearing, Reading Room (Type 541) or Consultation Room (Type 542).
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. When Type 593 is used, a description ("name") of the space must be manually inserted in the Custom Type Description field. Current examples of "Other Special Use Facilities" being used are:
Type 593 KITCHENETTE (small kitchenette areas within departments)
Type 593 BIKE STORAGE (secure storage for building occupants)
Type 593 SEATING ALCOVE (e.g., hallway seating where students may gather)
Type 593 ROOF ACCESS
Limitations: Do not use this category unless the space cannot be coded to any other type of space code.
594 Construction
Definition: Spaces under construction or renovation that currently are not in active use, regardless of whether they are or are not allocated to specific units and/or individuals
Description: Unit editors, at their discretion, may elect to use a Type Code describing the intended use of a space under construction (e.g., office, non-class lab, etc.). Regardless of the Type Code used, spaces under construction should carry the Function Code "Construciton (99)".
599 Other Special Use Facilities Support
Definition: A room that directly serves an Other Special Use Facility. One example is an exercise/fitness room used by UOPD officers, which is coded as Type 599/Related Service 093 Training Room.
600 - GENERAL USE FACILITIES
610 Assembly Facilities
611 Auditorium or Theater
Definition: A room designed and equipped with a stage for presenting various performance or other 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, or pavilions. This category should include the seating areas, stage, orchestra pit, and aisles.
Limitations: These rooms are distinguished from lecture rooms on the basis of primary use. As previously indicated under Classroom (Type 111), if the seating is regularly used for scheduled class meetings it should be classified as instructional space.
619 Assembly Facilities Support
Definition: A room that directly serves an assembly facility as an extension of the activities of such a facility.
Description: This category includes checkrooms (053), dressing rooms (057), projection booths (081), property storage (089) control rooms (060), etc.
Limitations: Entrance lobbies and other circulation areas surrounding or adjacent to the outside of the primary assembly room are non-assigned spaces classified as circulation. Associated concession stands should be coded Type 663.
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 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 (Type 622).
622 Departmental Specimen Collection
Definition: A room for the orderly, ongoing collection of specimens used by an academic department to actively support its teaching, research, 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 or 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.
629 Exhibition Facilities Support
Definition: A room directly serving an exhibition facility as an extension of the activities of the facility.
Description: This category includes checkrooms (053), workrooms for the preparation of materials and displays (079), vault (094), etc.
Limitations: Research areas in museums are classified as non-class laboratories (Type 251) or non-class laboratory facilities support (Type 259).
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 that are open to the student body and 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 the 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 that 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 seating area (Type 633). Do not include the seating area in this Type Code if it is physically separated from the snack bar (see Type 633).
633 Dining Room
Definition: A room used for eating meals.
Description: Included would be dining areas where patrons give their order and the food is brought to their table or where diners take their own orders to a large centrally located dining area shared by many vendors.
Limitations: This category is limited to facilities open to the student body and the public. Do NOT include cafeteria (Type 631), snack bar (Type 632), or residential dining (Type 931) under this category.
639 Food Facilities Support
Definition: A room that serves a food facility as an extension of the activities in such a facility.
Description: Included would be such areas as kitchens (064), refrigeration rooms (083), food serving rooms (062), and other non-dining areas.
Limitations: This category is limited to service areas where the food facility is open to the student body and public at large.
640 Day Care Facilities
641 Day Care Center
Definition: A room or group of rooms set aside by the university to provide day as a non-medical service to members of the university community.
Description: Include all primary activity rooms that provide oversight, supervision, developmental training and general personal care for children (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.
649 Day Care Center Facilities Support
Definition: A room that directly serves a primary activity room in a day care center as an extension of the activities in that room.
Description: Includes storage rooms (089), closets (054), kitchens (064), private or staff restrooms (086), and other typical service rooms that support a primary activity area.
Limitations: Restrooms designed for child training should be coded 641 Day Care Center whereas staff-only restrooms should be coded Type 649/Related Service 086. Staff office areas should be coded as office (within Type Category 300 - Office Facilities). Staff eating or break areas should be coded Type 649/Related Service 653, but eating or training areas for children are classified as primary activity areas (Type 641).
650 Lounge Facilities
651 Lounge
Definition: A room used for rest and relaxation, or one that functions as a "Green Room" for performers or presenters.
Description: Included are spaces in student unions or other non-residential buildings used for relaxation, informal meetings, etc., such as a Leona Tyler lounge in the Graduate School. A lounge typically is equipped with upholstered furniture, draperies, and carpeting. This Type Code also may be used to designate a Green Room, which accommodates performers or presenters not yet needed on stage; in this case, enter "Green Room" in the Custom Type Description field.
Limitations: A lounge-type area within a public rest room is non-assignable space and is not considered distinct from the restroom. Lounge or "hearth" areas in residence halls are classified under Type Category 900 - Residential Facilities (see Type 924). Do not include large waiting areas used by patients in clinic or health care facilities (see Type 881).
653 Break Room
Definition: A room used by faculty or staff for short breaks during the work day. The room may contain a small kitchenette, which does not need to be coded separately but can be considered as part of the primary break-room activity.
659 Lounge/Break Room Facilities Support
Definition: A room that directly serves a lounge or break room.
Description: This category includes storage areas (089) and vending rooms (096) that directly serve a lounge or break room.
660 Merchandising Facilities
663 Concession Area
664 Retail Outlet
Definition: A room or area 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 food service outlets, coffee houses, etc., that are leased by an outside vendor.
Limitations: Do not include in this category those merchandising facilities classified as concessions (Type 663) or food facilities that are operated by the university.
669 Merchandising Facilities Support
Definition: A room that serves a merchandising facility as an extension of the activities in that facility.
Description: Included in this category are rooms generally referred to as stockrooms (088), etc.
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 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 (see 500 - Special Use 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 (Type 111 Classroom).
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. It also may be used for Peer Advising rooms within schools or colleges, in which case, enter "PEER ADVISING" into the Custom Type Description field.
Limitations: This category does not include rooms that fit logically into another category, e.g., gym or gym service areas (Type 521), etc. It does not include outdoor facilities, which are not part of the Space Inventory Database, such as tennis courts, recreational fields, Urban Farm garden, etc.
679 Recreation Facilities Support
Definition: A room serving a recreation facility as an extension of the activities of the facility.
Description: This category includes stockrooms (088), closets (054), checkrooms (053), workrooms (097), etc.
Limitations: This category does not include kitchens (064), or other food facilities. It does NOT include athletic-physical education facilities support areas (see description Type 529).
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, 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 (Type 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 either conference rooms that serve an office complex or seminar rooms (Type 112) that are regularly scheduled for class meetings.
689 Meeting Room Facilities Support
Definition: A room serving a meeting room as an extension of the activities in the room.
Description: Include such rooms as kitchenettes (593 KITCHENETTE), chair storage (089), projection rooms (081), etc., provided they do NOT serve a conference room.
700 - SUPPORTING FACILITIES
710 Computer Facilities (Central)
711 Data Center
Definition: A space designed for housing server-class computing equipment and the
associated power and environmental controls for supporting uninterrupted
operation.
Description: The data-center system may fill one or more rooms, which normally require a controlled environment. Generally, Data Centers are housed within a central computing center facility, although this Type Code may be used by a college, school, or other unit to provide data-center functions for a large user population. A Data Center used for multiple functions, such as 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 by associating specific Functional Use Codes to this Type Code.)
Limitations: A computer facility used only for instruction should be classified as a class laboratory (see type 211). Computer systems and server rooms for department offices should be coded Type 319/Related Service 052 Computer-Related Room; for classrooms Type 119/052; for research labs Type 259/052, etc.
716 Data/Telecommunication Room
Definition: A room or area (facility) to house data networking and telecommunication equipment.
Description: This category includes central telephone switching rooms, data network distribution centers, and intermediate distribution facilities (data/telecommunication closets).
Limitations: Do not include departmental telephone reception areas, campus operators, etc.
719 Computer Facilities Support (Central)
Definition: A room that directly serves a central computer facility as an extension of the activities in such a facility.
Description: This category includes such rooms as storage for miscellaneous computer-related materials or computer equipment repair rooms (052).
Limitations: This category does not include offices for computer facility personnel or areas that support computer facilities classified as instructional or departmental (these latter would be coded in the appropriate Type Category, such as Types 119, 219, or 319, along with the appropriate Related Service Code).
720 Shop Facilities
721 Facilities Services Shops
Definition: A room or group of rooms 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, vehicle maintenance, 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 (see type 211). Highly specialized shops for the production of scientific apparatus and equipment should be classified as laboratory service (219, 229, 239 or 259 with Related Service Code 85). Materials preparation areas in audio-visual, radio stations, and TV studios should be classified in Type Category 530 (Audio-Visual, Radio, TV Facilities).
729 Shop Facilities Support
Definition: A room serving a shop facility as an extension of the activities in such a facility.
Description: Included in this category are materials storage rooms (089), stockrooms (088), locker rooms (073), etc.
Limitations: This category does not include employee offices or separate office-type support spaces adjoining a shop; such offices and office support functions should be classified in Type Category 300 - Office Facilities.
730 Storage Facilities
731 Warehouse
Definition: A centrally controlled room or facility used to receive and store distributable 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 Central Storage
Definition: A centrally controlled room or facility used to store materials.
Description: Include in this category those storage areas for materials that are accessed only occasionally; also included would be permanent or dead storage.
Limitations: Do not include storage facilities that are used to keep office supplies or paper supplies, etc., that may be used on a day-to-day basis (see 088). Do not include departmental or unit-level storage (see 089).
739 Storage Facilities Support
Definition: A room that serves a storage facility.
740 Vehicle Storage Facilities
741 Garage Facility, Central
Definition: A centrally controlled facility maintained for the storage of vehicles and large motorized equipment.
Description: This category includes facilities generally referred to as garages, sheds, and other broadly defined vehicle-storage areas.
Limitations: This category does not include large parking structures used for the temporary parking of vehicles on a day-to-day basis (Type 743) or for residential garages (084).
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 within a structure 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 maintenance equipment such as tractors, mowers, etc.
749 Vehicle Storage Facilities Service
Definition: A room (or structure) used to support facilities related to the storage of vehicles, boats, or large maintenance equipment.
Description: This category includes any support space associated with a vehicle storage facility accommodating cars, boats, and similar vehicles.
750 Central Facilities
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 that provide services to the university community. Also included are rooms that contain machines for printing from inked type, plates, or rolls. Include only central printing areas providing for the production of printed matter as a service to the university. Included would be such rooms as digital production, typesetting, press room, and bindery (folding, trimming, and binding of books and rebinding of books).
Limitations: Do not include in this category departmental copy or scanning rooms, which controlled by departments for their own use (Type 319/Related Service 058).
752 Central Mail Services
Definition: A central facility (room or group of rooms) for the receiving and distribution of mail to university departments.
Description: This category is limited to the university's central mail receiving and distribution facilities. Includes areas for U. S. 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, U. S. Postal facilities, or residence hall mailroom facilities.
759 Central Service Facilities Support
Definition: A room that directly serves a central duplicating or mail facility as an extension of the activities in those facilities.
Description: This category includes such areas as storage (089) and supply rooms (088), closets (054), and file rooms (061).
Limitations: Do not include rooms that serve departmental duplicating rooms or mail rooms.
760 Hazardous Materials Facilities
761 Hazardous Materials (toxic, flammable, corrosive, and/or reactive)
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 use this code, but be classified as a related service area to the instructional or research facilities that it serves.
769 Hazardous Materials Facilities Support
Definition: A room that supports a centralized hazardous materials facility in the storage, treatment, or disposal of hazardous or toxic waste materials.
Description: This category includes those rooms that directly serve a Hazardous Materials facility.
Limitations: Do not include rooms that serve temporary storage or disposal sites located near or adjacent to instructional or research facilities.
770 Recycling Facilities
771 Recycling Center
Definition: A centrally controlled recycling facility that serves as a central depository for recycled materials collected from campus-wide sites.
Limitations: Do not include departmental or individual building recycle areas (see 082).
800 - HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
800 Health Care Facilities
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, 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.
839 Nurse Station Facilities Support
Definition: A room that supports a nurse station as a direct extension of the activities in such a room.
Description: Include such rooms as nurse lounges (651 used as Related Service) or break rooms (653 used as Related Service), formula and medication preparation areas (079), health care room (065, 068), or other work rooms directly serving a nurse station.
851 Treatment/Examination Room
Definition: A room 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 Room (851) diagnosis differs from Diagnostic Laboratory (861) testing and diagnosis in that the former requires the presence of the patient.
852 Therapeutic Room
Definition: A room used primarily for physical or occupational therapy of patients in student health.
Limitations: Do not include rooms for therapeutic treatment of injuries in athletic facilities (Type 529/Related Service 093). Do not include rooms used for examinations or examination/treatment rooms when the therapeutic treatment function is not primary.
859 Treatment/Examination Facilities Support
Definition: 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-861, Diagnostic Service Laboratory Support-869), 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 (851). Treatment, examination, or clinic waiting rooms are classified as Patient Waiting Room (881) facilities.
861 Diagnostic Laboratory
Definition: 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 Room (851) facilities.
862 Diagnostic Services
Definition: A room used for diagnostic services that do not require wet laboratory facilities (see Type 861).
869 Diagnostic Laboratory Facilities Support
Definition: 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 Room (851).
872 Health Care Storeroom/Supplies [Student Health Center Only]
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 outpatient clinics.
879 Health Care Storeroom/Supplies Facilities Support
Definition: A room that supports health care storage facilities as an extension of the activities of such facilities.
881 Patient 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 generally associated with clinic and health care facilities.
Limitations: Excluded from this category are lounges (Type 651), lobbies (Type 023), and waiting-reception areas within department offices (Related Service 095).
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.
899 Health Care Facilities Support
Definition: Rooms that support health care facilities as an extension of the activities of such facilities.
Description: Generally all service rooms in a student health center (linen storage, instrument rooms, utility rooms, X-ray rooms, sterilizing rooms, etc.) will be coded with this classification. It includes all general service areas in a health sciences center that are not identified specifically with one of the other service codes.
900 - RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES
920 Residential Facilities
921 Sleep-Study room
Definition: A room or area designated as living quarters for students.
Description: Included in this category are sleeping rooms (both group and individual), study rooms, or combined sleeping-study rooms in residence halls or group living facilities and are designated as living quarters for undergraduate or graduate students.
922 Residence Hall Manager Apartment
Definition: An apartment or living quarters assigned to managers, head residents, or resident faculty, or in residence halls or cooperatives.
Description: The space will generally include, at minimum, a kitchen, bath, and bedroom.
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 (see Type 921).
923 Residential 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 Residence Hall Manager Apartment (Type 922).
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 or blinds, and television.
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, video games, etc.
Limitations: This category is for residential facilities only.
928 Resident Scholar Apartment
Definition: An apartment or living quarters assigned to a faculty member who serves as a resident scholar in a residence halls.
Description: The space may include a kitchen/dining area, .iving room, two or more bedrooms, and one or more bathrooms.
Limitations: This space is not to be confused with a Residence Hall Manager Apartment (Type 922).
929 Residence Hall Facilities Support
Definition: An area that serves a residence hall facility as a direct extension of the activities in such a facility.
Description: Included in this category would be such rooms as mailroom (074), laundry room (071), toilet-shower room (086), etc.
930 Food Service Facilities in Residence Halls
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.
939 Residence Food Service Facilities Support
Definition: A room that supports a food service facility as an extension of the activities in such a facility.
Description: Include in this category food preparation serving and food cleanup rooms (064), refrigeration rooms (083), trash-garbage rooms (090), dish washing rooms (063), etc.).
940 Family Dwellings
941 Family Student Housing
Definition: A residence assigned or rented to a student family or an individual student with minor dependents.
Description: Include in this category all family dwellings owned by the university and rented to students with dependents. Include all types of residences (houses, apartments, duplexes, triplexes, etc.).
Limitations: This category does not include residences rented or leased to non-university 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 university-owned residences rented to other personnel connected with an institution such as faculty and staff. This category also can be used to code residence owned by the university but rented or leased to non-university personnel.
949 Family Student Housing Facilities Support
Definition: An area that serves a family residence facility as a direct extension of the activities in such a facility.
Description: Included in this category would be such Family Student Housing rooms as mailroom (061), laundry room (071), etc. Also may be used with Faculty-Staff Housing to designate support facilities such as a residential garage (084).
951 Graduate Student Housing/Apartment
Definition: A residence facility assigned or rented to a graduate student.
Description: This category includes an apartment-style housing unitÑsmall apartments, studio apartments, or rooms in a suite such as bedrooms, bathroom, kitchenettes, living room, etc.
Limitations: This category does not include residences rented or leased to non-institutional personnel.
959 Graduate Student Housing Facilities Support
Definition: A room that serves a graduate residence facility as a direct extension of the activities in such a facility.
RELATED SERVICE CODE DEFINITIONS
Support or service areas are those that support a major space Type such as classroom, laboratory, office, etc. The support service provided by this area is an extension of the activities within the main room or space. A Related Service code is used in conjunction with a Type Code ending in "9." For example, a Workroom (Related Service 97) that serves an office complex would be coded as "Type 319 / Related Service 97." A workroom serving a research laboratory would be coded as "Type 259 / Related Service 97."
50-99 - Related Service/Support Areas
51 Animal Room
Definition: Rooms or aquaria space used for the housing and feeding of animals or fish.
Description: The rooms or spaces in this category would be those that are located in 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.) that are not located in academic buildings. Also, do not include in this category animal quarters that make animals available to the university (see Type 571 Animal Quarters).
52 Computer-Related Room
Definition: A room that directly supports departmental or research laboratory computers.
Description: The rooms in this category include such things as departmental or laboratory server rooms, I. T. equipment and equipment repair rooms, etc. Also include computer rooms related to research data processing and analysis (code as Type 259/Related Service 052).
Limitations: Do not include in this category major Data Centers; such facilities, whether they are centrally controlled by Information Services or controlled by departments or research units, are coded as Type 711.
53 Checkroom
Definition: A room in which hats, coats, parcels, etc., may be left until claimed.
Description: Rooms in time category are found in auditoriums, theaters, museums, etc.
54 Closet
Definition: A small room or cupboard space for clothes.
Description: Included are spaces usually located in or adjacent to offices and in which coats, hats, umbrellas, etc., may be placed.
Limitations: Do not include in this category space used as linen closets, storage areas for cleaning supplies or stockroom areas.
55 Dispensary Room/Pharmacy
Definition: A room where medicines are stored and also made up and given out, such as medical stores dispensing rooms and medicine preparation rooms.
56 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 used as teaching laboratories.
57 Dressing Room
Definition: A room for getting dressed and/or changing clothes in, generally associated with theater performers, laboratory research (gowns for clean rooms), examination rooms, etc.
Description: A room where performers dress and make up for their roles. Also included would be rooms adjoining research labs and other areas where special uniforms or wearing apparel must be put on.
Limitations: This space is not part of an athletic or recreational activity locker room.
58 Duplicating Room
Definition: A room containing photocopy or scanning equipment making exact copies of print materials.
59 Environmental Control Room
Definition: A room used for experimentation under specifically controlled environmental conditions. Also include cold storage rooms related to laboratories and research facilities.
Limitations: Do not include in this category greenhouses (Type 581) or refrigeration rooms in food preparation and serving areas (083).
60 Audio/Media Control Room
Definition: A room containing audio/media equipment used in conjunction with another room.
Description: Included would be control booths, which service student carrels, language laboratories, etc.
61 File Room
Definition: An area with shelves, file cabinets, etc., used to keep an orderly arrangement of documents for reference.
Limitations: Do not include vaults (094) or departmental storage areas used as dead or permanent storage areas (089).
62 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.
63 Food Cleanup Room
Definition: A room used for cleaning up dishes, etc., after meals.
Description: This category includes dish washing rooms, trash/garbage rooms, etc., in which the dining ware are cleaned. These rooms usually are located near the food preparation areas.
64 Food Preparation Room [Kitchen]
Definition: A room in which food is prepared and cooked.
Description: This Related Service Code generally will be used with such Type Codes as "Food Facilities Support (639)"; "Lounge/Break Room Facilities Support (659)"; "Meeting Room Facilities Support (689)"; and "Food Service Facilities Support [Residence Halls] (939)" .
Limitations: Do not include small departmental kitchenettes, which should be Type Code 593 Other Special Use Facility, with a Custom Type Description of "Kitchenette" entered into that field.
65 Health Care Utility Room, Clean
Definition: A room used for working with sterile materials in a patient care area.
66 Health Care Utility Room, Dirty
Definition: A room used for the disposal of waste products, etc., in a patient care area.
67 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, or instruments or equipment used in support of teaching or research laboratories.
68 Issue Room
Definition: A room in which an attendant is responsible for the issuing of supplies, athletic equipment, parts, tools, instruments, etc.
71 Laundry Room
Definition: A room for washing and drying clothes.
73 Locker Room
Definition: A room equipped with lockers and used for changing and storing clothes.
Description: Include changing rooms in gymnasiums or other buildings that contain faculty, staff, or student lockers.
Limitations: Do not include dressing rooms in a theater (057).
74 Mailroom
Definition: A room used for receiving and distributing mail from the central mail facility.
Description: Included are those (departmental) rooms where mail is delivered or picked up. The mail is sorted and distributed to individual boxes or slots that may or may not be in the same room.
Limitations: Do not include central mail facilities (see type 752).
76 Nurses Workroom
Definition: A room with sinks and sterilizers used by the nurses to prepare patient treatments, medications, etc.
77 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 (see type 851).
78 Darkroom
Definition: A specially designed room that has the characteristics that enable chemical development of exposed film or plates., or other processes requiring similar conditions.
79 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, formulae, materials, etc., to be used in another room.
80 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, and broadcasting equipment at athletic events.
Limitations: Do not include in this category bench areas set up inside gymnasia for reporting or broadcasting purposes.
81 Projection Booth
Definition: A small room from which pictures are projected into an adjoining room.
82 Recycling Area
Definition: A room or area within a building that serves as a depository for recycled materials waiting to be taken to a centralized recycle center.
Description: This category includes those central areas within a department or building that contain barrels or bags holding recyclable materials until such time as they are removed to a recycling center.
Limitations: Do not include small areas within a department unless the space is significant or the recycle function occupies its own room.
83 Refrigeration Room
Definition: A room for keeping food or other articles cool.
Description: Include rooms designed as cold of frozen storage areas as in food preparation and serving areas.
Limitations: Do not include cold storage rooms related to laboratories and research facilities, etc. (see Related Service 059).
84 Residential Garage
Definition: A structure, either attached to or detached from a residence, used to park or store a vehicle.
Description: This category includes facilities generally referred to as garages, sheds, and other broadly defined vehicle-storage areas that are related to a residence.
Limitations: This category does not include garages associated with general university maintenance or service vehicles (Type 741).
85 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 centralized Facilities Services shops (see Type 721) or with instructional shops (see Type 211) or shop-type research laboratories (see Type 251).
86 Toilet Room/Shower Room
Definition: A room containing bathroom fixtures
Description: Included in this category are rooms generally referred to as shower rooms, washrooms, toilet rooms, etc. Also included are the private restrooms within the sleep-study rooms in residence halls (Type 929/Related Service 086).
Limitations: Do not include public restrooms (see Type 032).
87 Sterilizing Room
Definition: A room housing autoclaves or other equipment used to sterilize or cleanse items such as surgical and other instruments or equipment and laboratory glassware and fixtures.
88 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. This type of space generally is 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 janitor closets or rooms used to store janitor supplies (see Type 012).
89 Storage, Non-Central
Definition: A departmental or non-centrally controlled room or facility used to store materials.
Description: Include in this category those storage areas for dead or permanent storage, as well as for materials that are used occasionally but should be close at hand.
Limitations: Do not include storage facilities that are used to keep office supplies or paper supplies, etc., that may be used on a day-to-day basis (088). Do not use with Type Category 700 - Support Facilities.
90 Trash-Garbage Room
Definition: A room, usually in a group residence facility, dedicated to the collection of trash or garbage to be held for central pickup.
91 Ticket Sales Booth
Definition: A room designed and used to sell tickets to athletic, theater, or other types of events.
92 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 and then checked back in for storage when no longer in use.
93 Training Room
Definition: A room using special equipment for the purpose of physical therapy and/or rehabilitation, especially in athletics.
Description: Included in this category are athletic treatment and examination rooms, hydrotherapy rooms, weight rooms, etc., used to strengthen, train, and diagnose and rehabilitate injuries in student athletes.
94 Vault
Definition: A room for safekeeping 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 be opened only with keys or a security code or by a timing mechanism.
95 Waiting-Reception Area
Definition: A room or area with seating used by visitors while waiting to see someone (most often used with Type 319) or to participate in a laboratory study (generally Type 259).
96 Vending Machines
Definition: A room or area containing vending machines for the use of faculty, staff, or students.
Description: This code will allow those building areas housing vending machines to be identified separately from other types of retail areas, if desired.
97 Workroom
Definition: A room where various activities relating to the occupation or duties of institutional personnel are conducted.
98 X-Ray Room
Definition: A room equipped with X-ray equipment used for diagnostic or treatment functions (see types 859, 869, 899 Health Care Facilities and 529 Athletic Facilities).