001 - NONASSIGNABLE AREA
The following categories are included to complete the list of room use categories for institutions that choose to include nonassignable space in the facilities room inventory.
010 Custodial Area
Definition: The sum of all areas of a building used for its protection, care, and maintenance.
Description: Should include such areas as trash rooms, guardrooms, custodial rooms, custodial locker rooms, and custodial supply rooms.
Limitations: Should not include central physical-plant shop areas, nor special-purpose storage or maintenance rooms, such as linen closets and maid rooms in residence halls.
020 Circulation Area
Definition: The sum of all areas on all floors of a building required for physical access to some subdivision of space, whether directly bounded by partitions or not.
Description: Included should be, but is not limited to, public corridors, fire towers, elevator lobbies, tunnels, bridges, and each floor's footprint of elevator shafts, escalators and stairways. Also included are corridors, whether walled or not, provided they are within the outside facelines of the buildings to the extent of the roof drop line.
Limitations: Deductions should not be made for necessary building columns and projections. When determining corridor areas, only spaces required for public access should be included. Restricted access private circulation aisles used only for circulation within an organization's suite of rooms, auditoria, or other working areas should not be included.
025 Receiving
Definition: The areas of a building required for the loading and unloading of materials, supplies, books, etc.
Description: Includes areas, such as loading docks. Any part of a loading dock that is not covered is to be excluded from both the receiving area and the gross building area.
Limitations: A loading dock which is also used for central storage should be regarded as assignable area and coded as Central Storage (730).
030 Mechanical Area
Definition: That portion of the net area designed to house mechanical equipment, utility services, and shaft areas.
Description: Included should be mechanical areas such as central utility plants, boiler rooms, mechanical and electrical equipment rooms, fuel rooms, meter and communications closets, and each floor's footprint of air ducts, pipe shafts, mechanical service shafts, service chutes, and stacks.
Limitations: Deductions should not be made for necessary building columns and projections. Areas designated as private toilets are not included.
031 Restroom
Definition: The area of a building used for nonprivate toilet facilities.
Description: Should include nonprivate toilet rooms (custodial and public).
Limitations: Deductions should not be made for necessary building columns and projections.
002 - Structural Area
The remaining area within the gross square footage of a building is structural or "construction" area, which cannot be occupied or put to use.
040 Structural Area
Definition: Should be construed to mean that portion of the gross area which cannot be occupied or put to use because of structural building features.
Description: Examples of building features normally classified as structural area are exterior walls, fire walls, permanent partitions, unusable areas in attics or basements, or comparable portions of a building with ceiling height restrictions, as well as unexcavated basement areas.
003 - Unclassified Facilities
Unclassified facilities include those assignable areas that are inactive or unassigned; in the process of being altered, renovated, or converted; or in an unfinished state.
050 Inactive Area
Definition: Rooms available for assignment to an organizational unit or activity but unassigned at the time of the inventory.
Limitations: Rooms being modified or not completed at the time of the inventory are classified as Alteration or Conversion Area (060) or Unfinished Area (070).
051 Inactive Area-Assigned
Definition: Rooms available for use and assigned to an organizational unit or activity but not currently occupied or being used.
Limitations: Rooms being modified or not completed at the time of the inventory are classified as Alteration or Conversion Area (060, 061) or Unfinished Area (070, 071).
052 Inactive Area-To Be Demolished
Definition: Rooms in a building scheduled for demolition.
060 Alteration or Conversion Area
Definition: Rooms available for assignment to an organizational unit or activity but are temporarily out of use because they are being altered, remodeled, or rehabilitated at the time of the inventory.
Limitations: Rooms inactive or not completed at the time of the inventory are classified as Inactive Area (050, 051) or Unfinished Area (070, 071), respectively.
061 Alteration or Conversion-Assigned
Definition: Rooms assigned to an organizational unit or activity but are temporarily out of use because they are being altered, remodeled, or rehabilitated at the time of the inventory.
Limitations: Rooms inactive or not completed at the time of the inventory are classified as Inactive Area (050, 051) or Unfinished Area (070, 071), respectively.
070 Unfinished Area
Definition: All potentially assignable areas in new buildings, shell space, or additions to existing buildings not completely finished at the time of the inventory and that have not been assigned to a particular organizational unit or activity.
Limitations: Intended only for the unfinished part or shell area of a building or addition; the parts that are in use should be appropriately classified elsewhere.
071 Unfinished Area-Assigned
Definition: All potentially assignable areas in new buildings, shell space, or additions to existing buildings not completely finished at the time of the inventory and that have been assigned to a particular organizational unit or activity.
Limitations: Intended only for the unfinished part or shell area of a building or addition; the parts that are in use should be appropriately classified elsewhere.
080 Use Not Known
Definition: All potentially assignable areas in buildings where occupying departments have no access or are unable to identify use.
100 - CLASSROOM FACILITIES
This category aggregates classroom facilities as an institution-wide resource, even though these areas may fall under different levels of organizational control. The term "classroom" includes not only general purpose classrooms, but also lecture halls, recitation rooms, seminar rooms, and other rooms used primarily for scheduled nonlaboratory instruction. Total classroom facilities include any support rooms that serve the classroom activity (e.g., 110 plus 115 as defined below). A classroom may contain various types of instructional aids or equipment (e.g., multimedia or telecommunications equipment) as long as these do not tie the room to instruction in a specific subject or discipline. (For treatment of such space, see 200 Laboratory Facilities.)
110 Classroom
Definition: A room used for classes and that is also not tied to a specific subject or discipline by equipment in the room or the configuration of the room.
Description: Includes rooms generally used for scheduled instruction that require no special, restrictive equipment or configuration. These rooms may be called lecture rooms, lecture-demonstration rooms, and general-purpose classrooms. A classroom may be equipped with tablet armchairs (fixed to the floor, joined in groups, or flexible in arrangement), tables and chairs (as in a seminar room), or similar types of seating. These rooms may contain multimedia or telecommunications equipment. A classroom may be furnished with special equipment (e.g., globes, pianos, maps) appropriate to a specific area of study, if this equipment does not render the room unsuitable for use by classes in other areas of study.
Limitations: This category does not include Conference Rooms (350), Meeting Rooms (680), Auditoria (610), or Class Laboratories (210). Auditoria are distinguished from lecture rooms based on primary use. A large room with seating oriented toward some focal point, and which is used for dramatic or musical productions, is an Assembly (610) facility (e.g., an auditorium normally used for purposes other than scheduled classes). A class laboratory is distinguished from a classroom based on equipment in the room and by its restrictive use. If a room is restricted to a single or closely related group of disciplines by special equipment or room configuration, it is a laboratory.
115 Classroom Service
Definition: A room that directly serves one or more classrooms as an extension of the activities in that room.
Description: Includes projection rooms, telecommunications control booths, preparation rooms, coat rooms, closets, storage areas, etc., if they serve classrooms.
Limitations: Does not include projection rooms, coat rooms, preparation rooms, closets, or storage areas, if such rooms serve laboratories, conference rooms, meeting rooms, assembly facilities, etc. A projection booth in an auditorium (not used primarily for scheduled classes) is classified as Assembly Service (615).
120 Special Classroom/Seminar
Definition: A room used by classes that require special-purpose equipment for student use but which could also be used for other classes when necessary.
Limitations: Conference rooms and meeting rooms are distinguished from seminar rooms according to primary use; rooms with tables and chairs that are used primarily for meetings (as opposed to classes) are conference rooms or meeting rooms (see room codes 350 and 680 for distinction).
125 Special Classroom/Seminar Service
Definition: A room that directly serves one or more special classrooms/seminars as an extension of the activities in such a room.
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