Space Types

570 Animal Facilities 865 Diagnostic Service Laboratory Support

575 Animal Facilities Service 580 870 Central Supplies
Greenhouse 880 Public Waiting
100 Classroom Facilities 585 Greenhouse Service 890 Staff On-Call Facility
110 Classroom 590 Other (All Purpose) 895 Staff On-Call Facility Service
111 Speciality Classroom
115 Classroom Service 600 General Use Facilities 900 Residential Facilities
610 Assembly 910 Sleep/Study Without Toilet or Bath
200 Laboratory Facilities 615 Assembly Service 919 Toilet or Bath
210 Class Laboratory 620 Exhibition 920 Sleep/Study With Toilet or Bath
215 Class Laboratory Service 935 Sleep/Study Service
625 Exhibition Service 630 Food Facility
220 Open Laboratory 950 Apartment
635 Food Facility Service 640 Day Care
225 Open Laboratory Service 955 Apartment Service
645 Day Care Service 650 Lounge
250 Research/Nonclass Laboratory 655 Lounge Service 970 House
255 Research/Nonclass Laboratory Service 660 Merchandising
000 Unclassified Facilities
256 Research Lab Bench 665 Merchandising Service 670 Recreation
050 Inactive Area
675 Recreation Service 680 Meeting Room
300 Office Facilities 685 Meeting Room Service 060 Alteration or Conversion Area
310 Office 070 Unfinished Area
311 Research Office 700 Support Facilities
710 Central Computer or Telecom WWW Circulation Area
315 Office Service
715 Central Computer or Telecom Service W02 Elevator
350 Conference Room
720 Shop W03 Escalator
355 Conference Room Service
725 Shop Service W04 Loading Dock
730 Central Storage W05 Lobby
400 Study Facilities 735 Central Storage Service W06 Public Corridor
410 Study Room 740 Vehicle Storage W07 Stairway
420 Stack 745 Vehicle Storage Service
430 Open-Stack Study Room 750 Central Service XXX Building Service Area
440 Processing Room 755 Central Service Support X01 Custodial Supply Closet
455 Study Service 760 Hazardous Materials Storage
X02 Janitor Room
770 Hazardous Waste Storage
500 Special Use Facilities X03 Public Restroom
775 Hazardous Waste Service
X04 Trash Room
510 Armory 780 Unit Storage
515 Armory Service X06 Women's Restroom
520 Athletic or Physical Education 800 Health Care Facilities X07 Men’s Restroom
523 Athletic Facilities Spectator Seating 810 Patient Bedroom X08 Lactation Room
815 Patient Bedroom Service
525 Athletic or Physical Education Service YYY Mechanical Area
820 Patient Bath
530 Media Production 830 Nurse Station Y01 Central Utility Plant
535 Media Production Service 835 Nurse Station Service Y02 Fuel Room
540 Clinic 840 Surgery Y03 Shaft
545 Clinic Service 845 Surgery Service Y04 Utility/Mechanical Space
550 Demonstration 850 Treatment/Examination Clinic
555 Demonstration Service 855 Treatment/Examination Clinic Service
560 Field Building 860 Diagnostic Service Laboratory
100 Classroom Facilities

110 Classroom
111 Speciality Classroom
A room or space used primarily for instructional
courses that is not tied to a specific subject or A room or space used primarily for instruction that
discipline by equipment in the room or the is controlled and scheduled by a department and
configuration of the space. not used beyond 18 hours per week. Classrooms
reserved for non-credit bearing activities, such as
If the room is a departmentally controlled the Global Education classrooms, should be
classroom, such as those in the School of categorized in this space use code. Through
Business, the room should be classified as a 110 if classifying classroom spaces as 110 and 111
scheduled use is greater than 18 hours per week. If based on scheduled use and scheduling
scheduled use is less than 18 hours, the room expectations, the University will be able to
should be classified as a 111. This is because the accurately report and evaluate instructional space
use of these rooms is quite heavy and would utilization. Rooms classified as specialty
increase the overall utilization averages for VCU. classrooms will not be included in the State
Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV)
It is important to consider the space’s primary scheduling report.
purpose and course scheduling data, as not
every room used for scheduled instruction Examples:
should be classified as a classroom. ● VCU Brandcenter classrooms
● Global Education classrooms
Classrooms may be furnished with special
equipment appropriate for a specific area of study
(e.g., globes, pianos, maps, computers, and 115 Classroom Service
network connections) as long as the equipment
A space that directly serves one or more
does not render the space unusable by classes in
other concentrations (i.e., an English course
classrooms as an adjacent extension of the
cannot be taught at chemistry laboratory tables). activities in that space.

Examples: Examples:
● Lecture rooms ● Projection rooms
● Lecture-demonstration rooms ● Telecommunications control booths
● Seminar rooms
● Preparation rooms
● Coat rooms
● Closets
200 Laboratory Facilities

210 Class Laboratory

215 Class Laboratory Service
A space used primarily for formally or regularly
A space that directly serves one or more class
scheduled instruction that requires Examples:
laboratories as an adjacent extension of the
special-purpose equipment or a specific space ● Music practice rooms
activities in those spaces.
configuration for student participation,
● Studios for individualized instruction
experimentation, observation, or practice in an
Examples: and independent learning
academic discipline. Special-purpose equipment
● Projection rooms ● Individual laboratories
or the configuration of a room normally limits or
● Telecommunications control booths ● Special laboratories or learning
precludes the space’s use by other disciplines.
laboratories iif discipline restricted
● Preparation rooms
Formally or regularly scheduled use is defined as ● Open-access computer laboratories
● Coat rooms
course activities that are regularly scheduled every ● Maker spaces
● Closets
term in the year, through an institutionally ● Computer laboratories involving
● Material storage (including temporary
approved entity (i.e., the Registrar’s office). These specialized restrictive software or
hazardous materials storage)
activities fulfill course requirements and typically where access is limited to specific
● Balance rooms
have a faculty member present. categories of students
● Cold rooms
● Language laboratories used for
Class laboratories may be either instructional ● Dark rooms individualized instruction and
studio rooms used by the School of the Arts or ● Stock rooms independent learning
traditional class laboratories as used by the ● Equipment issue rooms ● Unscheduled or irregularly scheduled art
sciences.
studio spaces

220 Open Laboratory ● Standardized patient care laboratories

Examples:
● Simulation laboratories for health care or
● Teaching laboratories (such as biology and A space that is designed for or furnished with related disciplines
chemistry laboratories) equipment that serves the needs of a particular
● Instructional shops discipline or discipline group for individual or
● Drafting rooms group instruction, where use of the space is not
● Choral rooms formally or regularly scheduled and / or access is
● Instructional health laboratories (such as limited to specific groups of students.
gross anatomy, anatomy, and physiology
laboratories) Spaces containing computer equipment that is
not restricted to a specific discipline or discipline
● Computer rooms used primarily to
group are classified as study rooms (410) unless
instruct students in the use of
the primary intent is to function as a site for
computers if that instruction is
structured learning or group activities rather than
conducted primarily in formally or
individual knowledge acquisition.
regularly scheduled classes
● Regularly scheduled class studios in the
Unscheduled art studio spaces should also be
School of the Arts
considered and classified as open laboratories.
 255 Research/Non Class
225 Open Laboratory Service Laboratory Service
A space that directly serves one or more open A space that directly serves one or more research /
laboratories as an adjacent extension of the non-class laboratories as an adjacent extension of
activities in those spaces. the activities in those spaces.

Examples: Examples:
● Projection rooms ● Projection rooms
● Telecommunications control booths ● Telecommunications control booths
● Preparation rooms ● Preparation rooms
● Coat rooms ● Coat rooms
● Closets ● Closets
● Material storage (including temporary ● Material storage (including temporary
hazardous materials storage) hazardous materials storage)
● Balance rooms ● Balance rooms
● Cold rooms ● Cold rooms
● Dark rooms ● Dark rooms
● Stock rooms ● Stock rooms
● Equipment issue rooms ● Equipment issue rooms

250 Research/Nonclass 255 Research Lab Bench

Laboratory A space that directly serves one or more research /
non-class laboratories as an adjacent extension of
A space used for laboratory experimentation,
the activities in those spaces.
research, or training in research methods;
professional research and observation; or
structured creative activity within a specific
program or for sponsored research (whether
sponsored with federal, state, private, or
institutional funds).

Activities may include experimentation,

application, observation, composition, or
research training in a structured environment
directed by one or more faculty or principal
investigators.

These activities are generally confined to faculty,

staff, and assigned graduate students and are
applicable to any academic discipline.
300 Office Facilities

310 Office 355 Conference Room Service

315 Office Service
A space housing faculty, staff, or students
A space that directly serves an office or group of A space that directly serves one or more
working at one or more desks, tables, or
offices as an adjacent extension of the activities in conference spaces as an adjacent, direct
workstations. Included are faculty,
those spaces. An office is differentiated from office extension of the activities in those spaces.
administrative, clerical, graduate and teaching
service by the latter’s use as a casual or
assistant, and student employee offices. Examples:
intermittent workstation or service room.
● Kitchenettes
A receptionist room that includes a waiting area
Examples: ● Storage spaces used for tables and
should typically be coded as an office. If the
● File rooms chairs used in the conference room
waiting area is substantial, consider using
phantom walls to separate the two areas. ● Break rooms ● Telecommunications control booths
● Projection rooms
● Kitchenettes serving office areas
Any other spaces, such as glass shops, printing ● Sound equipment rooms
● Copy and fax rooms
shops, study rooms, classrooms, research / ● Vaults
non-class laboratories, or others that incidentally
● Closets
contain desk space for a technician or staff
member are classified according to the primary use ● Private restrooms not available to the public
of the space, rather than as an office. ● Records rooms
● Office supply rooms
Office spaces that house student organizations ● First aid rooms serving office areas
should be considered as meeting room space
● Small, open, and private (restricted / non-public)
(680).
circulation areas (under 500 SF)
● Lounges that serve specific office areas and are
311 Research Office not generally available to the public

A research space housing Principal Investigators,

dedicated research staff, or students working at one or 350 Conference Room
more desks, tables, or workstations. Included are A space that serves an office complex and/or
research-based faculty, administrative, clerical, department and is used primarily for staff meetings
graduate and teaching assistant, and student employee and departmental activities, typically equipped
offices. A research receptionist room that includes a with tables and chairs. Normally, it is used by a
waiting area should typically be coded as a research specific organizational unit or office area, whereas
office. meeting rooms (680) are available for use by the
larger campus community.
400 Study Facilities

410 Study Room 455 Study Service

A space that directly serves study spaces,
A room or area used by individuals to study at ● Micromaterials stacks, open-stack study spaces, or processing
their convenience that is not restricted to a ● Electronic storage media (e.g., tapes, disks, rooms as an adjacent and direct extension of the
particular subject or discipline by contained
slides, etc.) activities in those spaces.
equipment. Study spaces are primarily used by
students or staff for learning at their ● Musical scores, maps, and other educational
convenience, although access may be restricted materials Examples:
by a controlling unit (e.g. a departmental study ● Storage spaces
room). ● Copy rooms
430 Open-Stack Study Room
● Closets
Examples: A combination study space and stack, generally ● Locker rooms
● Study or reading rooms located in without physical boundaries between the stack
● Coat rooms
libraries, residential facilities, academic or and study areas. Institutions may wish to
student service facilities separate and code the seating or study areas
● Study carrel and booth areas and stack areas into separate space records.
● Similar spaces that are intended for
general study purposes 440 Processing Room
● “Learning laboratories” or “computer
laboratories” if they are not restricted to A room or area devoted to processes and
specific disciplines by contained equipment operations that support the library’s functions
or software and overall mission. Small incidental processing
● Formal and informal collaboration areas in larger stack or study areas should be
spaces included within the larger primary activity
category.

420 Stack Examples:

● Card and microfiche areas
A space used to house arranged collections of
educational materials for use as a study ● Reference desk and circulation desk
resource. Stacks typically appear in central, areas
branch, or departmental libraries and are ● Bookbinding rooms
characterized by accessible, arranged, and ● Multimedia materials processing areas
managed collections. ● Interlibrary loan processing areas

Collections can include:

● Books
● Periodicals
● Journals
● Monographs
500 Special Use Facilities

510 Armory 530 Media Production

● Dance studios A space used for the production or distribution of
A room or area used by Reserve Officer Training
● Racquetball courts multimedia materials or signals. These spaces
Corps (ROTC) and ancillary units for military or
police training and / or instructional activities. ● Bowling alleys have a clearly defined production or distribution
These spaces are designed or equipped for use ● Indoor swimming pools
in a military training or instructional program, function that serves a broader area (e.g.,
such as indoor drill areas, indoor rifle ranges, and department, entire campus, local community)
specially designed or equipped military science
523 Athletic Facilities Spectator
than would a typical service room.
rooms, are included in this category. Ancillary Seating
units may include special rifle and drill teams. Radio or TV broadcasting areas, simulation
A covered seating area used by students, staff,
or the public to watch athletic events. Does not laboratories, and other media spaces used for
515 Armory Service include temporary or movable seating areas or
uncovered permanent seating. scheduled courses to teach broadcasting to
A space that directly serves an armory facility as students should be coded as laboratories.
an adjacent extension of the activities in that
Examples:
facility. This category includes supply rooms, Examples:
● Covered permanent or fixed seating
weapons rooms, and military / police equipment
areas in gymnasia, field houses, ice ● TV studios
storage rooms.
arenas, covered stadia, natatoria, and ● Radio studios

cycling arenas. ● Sound studios

520 Athletic or Physical Education ● Photo studios
A room or area used by students, staff, or the ● Video or audio cassette and software
525 Athletic or Physical Education
public for athletic or physical education / production or distribution room and media
kinesiology activities. Scheduled or unscheduled Service centers
instruction might take place in these spaces. A space that directly serves an athletic or ● Electronic visualization studios
physical education / kinesiology facility as an ● Studio spaces used for curriculum
Examples: adjacent extension of the activities in that development
● Gymnasia facility.
● Indoor putting areas
● Basketball courts Examples:
● Handball courts ● Locker rooms
● Indoor tracks ● Shower rooms
● Squash courts ● Non-office coaches’ rooms
● Indoor stadium fields ● Ticket booths
● Wrestling rooms ● Spaces for dressing, equipment,
supply, storage, first aid,
● Field houses
skate-sharpening, towels, etc.
● Weight or exercise rooms
535 Media Production Service 545 Clinic Service 555 Demonstration Service
A space that directly serves a media production or A space that directly serves a clinic as an A space that directly serves a demonstration
distribution space as an adjacent extension of the adjacent extension of the activities in that space. facility as an adjacent extension of the activities
activities in that facility. in that facility.
Examples:
Examples: ● Waiting rooms Examples:
● Film, tape, or cassette libraries or ● Observation rooms ● Storerooms, pantries, etc., in a family
storage areas ● Control rooms and consumer science facility
● Media equipment storage rooms ● Records rooms ● Kitchens, lockers, shower rooms, etc.,
● Recording rooms in a laboratory school
● Diagnostic laboratories
● Engineering maintenance rooms
● Dark rooms
560 Field Building
● Preparation rooms 550 Demonstration
● Studio control booths A barn or similar agricultural structure used for
A room or group of spaces used to practice,
animal shelters or for the handling, storage, or
within an instructional program, the principles of
protection of farm products, supplies, vehicles,
540 Clinic certain disciplines such as teaching, child care or
or implements. Structures are typically of
development, and family and consumer science.
A space used for providing diagnosis, light-frame construction with unfinished interiors
The key criterion here is practice activity within an
consultation, treatment, or other services to and are frequently located outside the central
instructional program that closely simulates a
patients, clients, or subjects with the primary campus area.
real-world or occupational
purpose of instruction, research, or public
service. Such spaces and their related uses are setting. This category also does not include Examples:
typically associated with educational programs laboratories that are used for direct delivery of ● Barns
like dental clinics, physical and occupational instruction as opposed to practice. ● Animal and poultry shelters, sheds,
therapy clinics, psychology, law, speech, and silos, feed units, and hay storage
hearing. The distinction between a laboratory Examples: ● Storage space for farm vehicles and
classification and a clinic classification can ● Demonstration day care and implements
sometimes be determined by understanding if
development centers
the clinic is fee based. If it is fee based, the
● Laboratory schools
space is to be considered as clinic space.
● Family and consumer science houses
Examples:
● Examination rooms
● Testing rooms
● Consultation rooms
● Holding areas
570 Animal Facilities 580 Greenhouse
A space that houses laboratory animals used for A building or space that is usually composed chiefly
research and / or instructional purposes. of glass, plastic, or other light-transmitting material
and used for the cultivation or protection of plants or
Examples: seedlings for research, instruction, or campus
● Animal rooms physical maintenance or improvement purposes.
The primary criterion is the combination of structural
● Operating
design as a greenhouse and the use for cultivation
● Cage rooms
or protection.
● Recovery
● Stalls
● Isolation
585 Greenhouse Service
● Wards A space that directly serves a greenhouse facility as an
● Quarantine adjacent extension of the activities in that facility.
● Procedure
Examples:
● Equipment or materials storage areas
575 Animal Facilities Service ● Head houses

A space that directly serves an animal quarters

facility as an adjacent extension of the activities in 590 Other (All Purpose)
that facility.
A category of last resort — should have very limited
use, if used at all.
Includes:
● Feed storage rooms
● Feed mixing rooms
● Cage washing rooms
● Cage storage rooms
● Casting rooms
● Instrument rooms
● Internal (non-public) circulation space
600 General Use
Facilities
630 Food Facility
610 Assembly
● Green rooms A space used for eating. The primary distinction
A space designed and equipped for the ● Multimedia and telecommunications of a food facility is the availability of some form
assembly of many persons for such events as
control rooms of accommodation (seating, counters, tables)
dramatic, musical, devotional, livestock judging,
for eating or drinking. This category includes
or commencement activities. If not used
facilities open to students, faculty, staff, or the
primarily for instruction, seating areas, orchestral 620 Exhibition
public at large.
pits, chancels, aisles, and stages are included in
A room or area used for exhibition of materials,
and usually aggregated into the assembly
works of art, artifacts, etc., that is intended for Lounges with vending machines that are
space.
general use by faculty, students, staff, and the incidental to the primary use of the space (i.e.,
public. relaxation) are coded as part of the lounge, if
Examples:
within the space, or as lounge service if separate
● Theaters Examples: from and directly supporting the main lounge
● Auditoria ● Departmental and institution-wide facility.
● Concert halls museums, galleries, and similar
● Arenas Break rooms serving specific office areas are
exhibition areas that are used to
classified as office service. Eating areas for
● Chapels display materials and items for children in demonstration or day care facilities
● Livestock judging pavilions viewing by the institutional are classified as primary activity categories
population and the public within these respective areas (see
615 Assembly Service ● Planetariums used primarily for demonstration and day care); staff-only eating or
break rooms in these facilities are classified as
exhibition
A room or area that directly serves an assembly service areas (see demonstration service and
facility as an adjacent extension of the activities day care service).
in that facility, even if they are used for 625 Exhibition Service
instruction. Examples:
A space that directly serves an exhibition facility
● Dining halls
Examples: as an adjacent extension of the activities in that
facility. ● Cafeterias
● Check rooms
● Snack bars
● Coat rooms
Examples: ● Restaurants
● Ticket booths
● Preparation workrooms ● Similar eating areas in residence halls,
● Dressing rooms
● Storage rooms faculty clubs, etc.
● Projection booths
● Vaults
● Property storage
● Make-up rooms, costume and scenery
shops, and storage
635 Food Facility Service 650 Lounge 665 Merchandising Service
A space that directly serves a food facility as an A space used for rest and relaxation that is not A space that directly serves a merchandising
adjacent extension of the activities in that facility. restricted to a specific group of people, unit, or facility as an adjacent extension of the activities in
area. This general-use lounge differs from an that facility.
Examples: office area or break room lounge (see office
● Kitchens and other preparation areas, cold service) by virtue of its public availability. If a Examples:
space is equipped with more than one or two ● Storage rooms and closets
storage and freezer refrigeration rooms
seats for a seating area and intended for use by
● Dish washing rooms ● Sorting rooms
people visiting or passing through a building or
● Food serving areas, cleaning areas, etc. ● Private restrooms
area, it is coded as a lounge.
● First aid and vending areas directly serving
food facilities, or adjacent to an eating area 670 Recreation
655 Lounge Service
640 Day Care
A space used by students, staff, or the public for
A space that directly serves a general use
A space used to provide day or night, child or recreational purposes. Recreation rooms are areas
lounge facility as an adjacent extension of the
elderly adult care as a non-medical service to that are used for relaxation and amusement-type
activities in that facility.
members of the institutional community. This activities, whereas athletic and physical education /
category does not include demonstration kinesiology facilities are typically used for the more
Examples:
houses, laboratory schools, or other facilities vigorous pursuits within physical education,
● Kitchenettes
with a primary function of providing practice for intercollegiate athletics, and intramural programs
postsecondary students as part of the ● Storage areas that often require specialized configuration.
instructional process (see demonstration). ● Vending spaces
Examples:
Includes: ● Billiards rooms
660 Merchandising
● Rest rooms designed for child training ● Hobby rooms
● Eating or training areas for children A space used to sell products or services.
● Game and arcade rooms
Examples: ● TV rooms
645 Day Care Service ● Bookstores ● Table tennis rooms
● Student supply stores ● Reading (non-study) rooms
A space that directly serves a primary activity
● Barber or beauty shops ● Chess rooms
space in a day care facility as an adjacent
extension of the activities in that space. ● Post offices ● Music listening rooms that are used for
● Campus food stores recreation and amusement and not for
Examples: ● Walk-away vending machine spaces instructional purpose
● Storage rooms ● Central ticket outlets servicing multiple ● Card playing rooms
● Closets facilities or activities ● Movie theaters
● Kitchens or food preparation areas
● Pantries
● Private or staff-only eating areas and
restrooms
675 Recreation Service

A space that directly serves a recreation facility as an

adjacent extension of the activities in that facility.

Examples:
● Storage rooms
● Cashiers’ desks
● Closets
● First aid areas
● Equipment issue rooms

680 Meeting Room

A room that is used by the campus community
for a variety of non-class meetings. The key
concept here is availability. Although a room
might be assigned to a specific organizational
unit, a meeting space is more often available
and open to study groups, boards, governing
groups, community groups, student groups,
non-employees of the institution, and various
combinations of institutional and community
members. Conference rooms are typically
limited to the direct unit or office suite it
serves. This category also includes office
space for student organizations.

685 Meeting Room Service

A space that directly serves a meeting space as
an adjacent extension of the activities in that
space.

Examples:
● Kitchenettes
● Multimedia storage and control rooms
● Furniture storage rooms
700 Support Facilities

725 Shop Service

710 Central Computer or Telecom
Examples:
A space that directly serves a shop facility as an
A space used as a data or telecommunications ● Paper and forms storage
adjacent extension of the activities in that facility.
center with applications with broad applications to ● Off-line tape and disk storage
serve the overall administrative or academic
● Separate control or console rooms or booths Examples:
primary equipment needs of a central group of
● Tool and parts rooms ● Tool storage rooms
users, department, college, school, or entire
institution. Although the ongoing primary activity ● Bursting and decollating rooms ● Materials storage rooms
of this category is tied more closely to equipment ● Areas used to store only inactive support ● Locker, shower, first aid, and similar
than human activity, these areas require technical equipment (e.g., multiplexers, modems, non--public areas
support staff, and physical access may be spoolers, etc.) and separate areas used for
restricted to these personnel. It is important to
delivering tapes or picking up printouts 730 Central Storage
distinguish between these space types and
telecommunication rooms that service a single ● Repair and assembly rooms A space or building that is used to store equipment or
building. A building’s telecommunication closets materials that serves multiple space use categories,
should be classified organizational units, or buildings. The concept of
720 Shop
central or general is key to applying this code
as a utility / mechanical space (Y04).
A space used for the manufacture, repair, or correctly
maintenance of products or equipment.
Examples: Examples:
● Central rooms housing a computer or Examples: ● Warehouses
computers (e.g., large mainframe, ● Surplus storage
● Carpenter, plumbing, HVAC, electrical,
server farms, etc.) ● Central campus supply or storage
and painting shops
● Central rooms housing peripheral input ● Inactive storage
● Repair and maintenance of multimedia
(e.g., data entry terminals, tape or disk
equipment and devices
drives, data reading equipment,
● Physical plant maintenance facilities 735 Central Storage Service
monitors, etc.)
● Centralized shops for construction or
● Central rooms housing output devices A space that directly serves a central storage facility as
repair of research or instructional
(e.g., printers, output tape or disk an adjacent extension of the activities in that facility.
equipment
drives, etc.) This category is typically limited to support rooms
● Special purpose shops (e.g., glass
associated with the transporting of materials in and out
blowing, machining) supporting multiple
of large central storage facilities and warehouses.
715 Central Computer or Telecom spaces for
scientific instruction and research
Service
A space that directly serves a central computer
or telecommunications facility as an adjacent
extension of the activities in that facility.
740 Vehicle Storage 780 Unit Storage
● Central shipping and receiving areas
A space or structure that is used to house or A dedicated storage area or location under the direct
● Central environmental testing or
store vehicles. The definition of “vehicle” is control and management of a specific institutional
monitoring facilities
broadly interpreted here to include forklifts, division, department, office, business unit, or similar
moving equipment, lawn equipment, and other organizational unit.
powered transport devices or equipment, as well 755 Central Service Support
as automobiles and trucks.
A space that directly serves a central service facility
Examples: as an adjacent extension of the activities in that
● Parking decks facility. This category is typically limited to
extension storage rooms for supplies, parts, and
● Garages
moving or non-active equipment, and adjacent,
● Boathouses directly supporting repair and maintenance areas.
● Airplane hangars
760 Hazardous Materials Storage
745 Vehicle Storage Service
A centralized facility used to store materials planned
A space that directly serves a vehicle storage for future use or distribution that are considered
facility as an adjacent extension of the activities hazardous by the physical, chemical, biological, or
in that facility. radioactive nature of the materials. These materials
are “new” in nature, in that they have been acquired
Examples: for specific planned use and are not remnants (or
● Storage rooms and areas used for “leftovers”) from other work activities.

maintenance and repair of automotive

equipment, boats, airplanes, and other 770 Hazardous Waste Storage
Vehicles A centralized storage facility used for the treatment
and / or disposal of hazardous or toxic waste
750 Central Service materials as defined, classified, and controlled under
government environmental regulations.
A room or area that is used for the processing,
preparation, testing, or delivery of a 775 Hazardous Waste Service
complex-central or campus-wide support
service (typically serves the occupants or A centralized storage facility used for the treatment and
activities of more than one building). / or disposal of hazardous or toxic waste materials as
defined, classified, and controlled under government
Examples: environmental regulations.
● Centralized food stores and laundries
● Central facilities for printing and
duplicating services
● Central mail facilities
800 Health Care Facilities
840 Surgery
Examples:
This series provides space use classifications for
● Linen closets A room used for surgery.
patient care areas located in separately organized
and budgeted health care facilities, such as ● Patient lounges
student infirmaries and centers, intercollegiate ● Children’s play rooms Examples:
athletics, teaching hospitals, stand-alone clinics ● Any other service areas that are used ● Major and minor surgery rooms
run by these hospitals, and veterinary and medical primarily by patients rather than staff ● Delivery rooms
schools. Clinics associated with educational
programs should be coded as clinic (540) and
clinic service (545). Although the codes in this 820 Patient Bath 845 Surgery Service
series are confined to the settings listed, these
A room containing patient bath and toilet facilities. A space that directly serves a surgery room as an
facilities might also house areas that are classified
Public restrooms and private restrooms that serve adjacent extension of the activities in that facility.
using applicable codes from other classification
areas other than patient bedrooms (e.g., Office
series (e.g., classroom, laboratory, office, special
Service, Nurse Station Service) are excluded. Special Examples:
use, general use, supporting facilities, etc.)
tub rooms used by nursing staff for cleaning patients ● Recovery rooms
are classified as Nurse Station Service.
● Labor rooms
810 Patient Bedroom ● Special support equipment rooms
A room equipped with one or more beds that is 830 Nurse Station ● Dictation booths
used for patient care. ● Scrub-up rooms
A room or area used by nurses or other patient
care staff who are supervising or administering ● Gown rooms
Examples: health care services. Includes ward reception and ● Locker rooms
● General nursing care admissions desks and records or charting work ● Instrument cleanup and storage rooms
● Observation units areas.
● Sterile supply storage rooms
● Acute care
● Infant care nurseries 835 Nurse Station Service 850 Treatment/Examination Clinic
● Intensive care units
A space that directly serves one or more nurse
● Incubator units A space used for examinations, diagnosis,
station spaces as an adjacent extension of the
consultation, or treatment.
● Progressive coronary care units activities in those spaces.
● Wards
Examples:
● Emergency bed care units Examples:
● Radiology rooms
● Semi Convalescent and rehabilitative ● Nurse lounges or break rooms
● Physical and occupational therapy
adult or pediatric bedrooms ● Locker rooms or Private staff restrooms
● Dental examination and treatment
● Utility rooms
● Combined doctor’s office and treatment
815 Patient Bedroom Service ● Medication storage and preparation
/examination clinic rooms
● Equipment sterilization
A room that directly serves one or more patient ● Special tub rooms
bedrooms as an adjacent extension of the
activities in those spaces.
 890 Staff On-Call Facility
855 Treatment/Examination Clinic
A room or quarters used by health care staff to rest
Service or sleep while on call to assigned duties within a
● Morgues
A space that directly serves a treatment / health care facility.
● Autoclave and centrifuge rooms
examination clinic room as an adjacent
● Warm and cold rooms
extension of the activities in those spaces. 895 Staff On-Call Facility Service
● Lockers
Examples: ● Scrub-up and gown rooms A space that directly serves as a staff on-call room as
● Dressing rooms ● Special processing rooms an adjacent extension of the activities in that facility.

● X-ray and film reading or viewing rooms

Examples:
● Film processing rooms 870 Central Supplies ● Kitchens
● Work preparation areas
A room used centrally to store health care ● Baths
● Equipment and supply storage areas
supplies in a health care facility. Storage is ● Laundry rooms
● Patient dressing rooms
relatively inactive in comparison to standard ● Lounges
service rooms, which are usually smaller.
● Closets
860 Diagnostic Service Lab
● Storage rooms
Examples:
A space used to provide diagnostic support
● Pharmacy supply and storage rooms
services to an entire health care facility. Rooms
● Dispensary areas
used for diagnostic and therapeutic examination
or treatment of patients should be classified as ● Central linen storage rooms
treatment / examination clinic (850) facilities.
880 Public Waiting
Examples:
Pathology, pharmacy, autopsy, isotope rooms or A space used by the public to await admission,
laboratories, and the like that provide such treatment, or information within a health care facility.
services as hematology, chemistry tissue, Phantom boundaries should be assigned as needed
bacteriology, serology, blood bank, and basal to define non-assignable areas of entrance lobbies
metabolism. that simply serve a circulation function.

Examples:
865 Diagnostic Service Lab ● Lobby areas
Support ● Patient waiting rooms
A space that directly serves a diagnostic service ● Visiting areas
laboratory as an adjacent extension of the ● Viewing rooms
activities in that facility. ● Ward day rooms

Examples:
● Cadaver storage rooms
Residential Facilities
Residential facilities include housing for students,
920 Sleep/Study With Toilet or 955 Apartment Service
faculty, staff, and visitors to the institution. Hotel Bath A room or area that directly serves an apartment or
and other guest facilities are included in this series if group of apartments as an extension of the activities
A residential room for one or more individuals with
they are owned or controlled by the institution and in that facility. Apartment service facilities may be
an internally connected bath or toilet.
used for purposes associated with defined located in a separate building that serves an
institutional missions (i.e., excluding commercial apartment complex.
investment). 935 Sleep/Study Service
Examples:
A room that serves the occupants of sleep / study
Note: Not all space in residential facilities is ● Mail rooms
rooms as an adjacent direct extension of the
coded using the 900 series. Conventional ● Laundry and pressing rooms
activities in that facility.
primary activity and service codes, such as ● Linen closets
office, lounge, study area, and food facility, Examples: ● Housekeeping rooms
apply to specific areas. ● Mail rooms
● Laundry and pressing rooms 970 House
● Linen closets
910 Sleep/Study Without Toilet or A complete living unit with private cooking facilities in a
● Housekeeping rooms
Bath ● Kitchen or food preparation spaces that separate structure. Should include fraternity and
A residential room for one or more individuals serve sleeping areas and do not serve an sorority houses only if owned or controlled by the
without an internally connected bath or toilet. A accompanying eating or dining area (see institution. It is not intended that individual rooms be
sleep / study facility may be a room for Food Facility) specifically identified within the structure, but only that
combined sleep / study, a room exclusively for the total interior area be accounted for.
sleeping, or a room for living and study.
950 Apartment
Connected closets are considered part of the
room. A complete living unit with private cooking facilities
not within a separate structure. It is not intended that
individual rooms be specifically identified within the
919 Toilet or Bath apartment, but only that the total interior space be
A toilet or bathroom intended only for the included. Includes apartments provided for faculty,
occupants of the residential facilities, rather than staff, students, or visiting guests.
for the public. Includes common or shared
bathroom facilities that may consist of full or half
bath, shower, or toilet and shower
combinations, used by the residents and
accessible from a corridor or other general
circulation area.
Unclassified Facilities Circulation Areas

050 Inactive Area W01 Bridge / Tunnel

W06 - Public Corridor
A covered and walled connecting passageway for
Rooms available for assignment to an
people to pass over or underground to gain access A covered passageway or ramped area available to the
organizational unit or activity but unassigned at
to another facility. Ground-level covered general public, whether walled or not, to transport
the time of the inventory.
passageways, walled or not, are coded as public people or things from one location to another.
corridors (W06).
060 - Alteration or Conversion
Area W02 Elevator W07 - Stairway
Spaces temporarily out of use because they are The covered internal or external space dedicated to
The structural shaft built to accommodate one or
being altered, remodeled, or rehabilitated at the provide non-mechanically assisted passage from one
more elevator cabs. The entire cross-sectional
time of the inventory. floor level to another. In an enclosed stairway, the
shaft area is to be inventoried at each floor level
through which it passes. cross-sectional area of the stairwell is inventoried at
070 - Unfinished Area each floor through which it passes. In an unenclosed
stairway, only that area beneath the stairway structure
All potentially assignable areas in new buildings, W03 Escalator that is not accessible or has less than a three-foot
shell space, or additions to existing buildings not
A moving passageway that carries passengers ceiling height is included.
completely finished at the time of the inventory.
from one floor level to another, or along a level
path over some distance.

W04 Loading Dock

A covered area of a platform used to load or
off-load goods or materials that are to be
transported elsewhere within a reasonable amount
of time, such that the platform is not considered as
a storage location. Only the length and width of the
platform’s covered area is to be included in the
inventory.

W05 Lobby
A circulation area used to transition from the floor’s
external entrance to internal circulation space, to pass
from one corridor to another, or to move to a different
level such as a lobby area outside an elevator bank.
Although a lobby may have some limited seating
furniture, it is designed more for passing through (or
having standing conversations) than for sitting and
relaxing.
Building Service Area Mechanical Area

X01 Custodial Supply Closet Y01 - Central Utility Plant

A small area or closet that houses limited A facility that primarily houses central utility production
quantities of custodial supplies for daily use by and / or distribution to more than one facility on
custodial staff. campus. These include such facilities as steam plants,
co-generation facilities, and electrical distribution
X02 Janitor Room facilities.
A space dedicated for use by janitorial staff. It
may include a clothes changing area, clothes Y04 - Utility / Mechanical Space
lockers, shower facility, a small eating and Covered and walled areas that house one or more utility
relaxing space, a desk for completing and / or mechanical functions for the building. These
paperwork, a sink room for wet mop activities, areas range from large rooms co-located on a
or a temporary trash collection area for “mechanical” floor or basement area to small closet
non-hazardous waste materials. spaces

X03 Public RestRoom

Includes all toilet facilities, whether locked or not, that
are made available for general public use.
Accompanying rest areas that are contiguous to a
public restroom are also included as part of the toilet
facility’s area.

X04 Trash Room

A space for the temporary storage of
non-hazardous waste awaiting disposal or
removal.

X06 Women’s Restroom

X07 Men’s Restroom

X08 Lactation Room