Facilities Inventory: Room Types
Last updated: May 12, 2026
Content created: January 1998
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ROOM TYPE: A classification system that uses a code to describe a room’s last use as of June 30th in a fiscal year. Common room types include classrooms, private offices, conference rooms, and non-class research laboratories.
For additional information, see Cornell University policy 2.7 "Reporting the Use of Facilities" at https://policy.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/vol2_7.pdf.
| ROOM TYPES | ROOM TYPES (continued) | ROOM TYPES (continued) |
|---|---|---|
| Unclassified Facilities (Non-Assignable) 010 Custodial Area 011 Fallout Shelter 020 Circulation Area 021 Staircase 022 Elevators 024 Lobby 029 Elevator Machine Room 030 Mechanical Area 031 Public Toilet 032 Private Toilet 035 Shaft Unclassified Facilities (Assignable) 050 Incapable of Use 060 Alteration or Conversion Area 081 Dept Moved, Capable of Use Classroom Facilities 110 Classroom 115 Classroom Service Laboratory Facilities 210 Class Laboratory, Dry (Regularly Scheduled) 212 Class Laboratory, Wet (Regularly Scheduled) 215 Class Laboratory, Dry, Service 217 Class Laboratory, Wet, Service 220 Open Class Laboratory (Irregularly Scheduled) 225 Open Class Laboratory, Service 230 Individual Study Laboratory 235 Individual Study Laboratory, Service 250 Non-Class Laboratory (Research) 255 Non-Class Lab (Research) Service 260 Department Special Service 270 Incubator Laboratory 272 Walk-In Environmental Chamber (Research) 275 Environmental Chamber Service (Research) Office Facilities 310 Office, Private (Station Qty 1) 314 Office, Shared (Station Qty 2–4) | Office Facilities (continued) 315 Office Service 320 Office, Open Plan (also reception) 350 Office, Conference Room 355 Office, Conference Room Service Study Facilities 410 Reading-Study Room 420 Library Stack 430 Open Stack Reading Room 440 Processing Room 455 Study Service Special Use Facilities 510 Armory 515 Armory Service 520 Athletic-Physical Education 523 Athletic Facilities Spectator Seating 525 Athletic-Physical Education Service 530 Audio-Visual, Radio, TV 535 Audio-Visual, Radio, TV Service 540 Clinic (Non-Medical) 545 Clinic Service (Non-Medical) 550 Demonstration Facility 555 Demonstration Facility Service 560 Field Building 570 Animal Quarters 575 Animal Quarters Service 580 Greenhouse 585 Greenhouse Service General Use Facilities 610 Assembly 615 Assembly Service 620 Exhibition 625 Exhibition Service 630 Food Facility 635 Food Facility Service 640 Day Care 645 Day Care Service 650 Lounge | General Use Facilities (continued) 655 Lounge Service 660 Merchandising Facility 665 Merchandising Facility Service 670 Recreation 675 Recreation Service 680 Meeting Room 685 Meeting Room Service 690 Locker Room Supporting Facilities 710 Data Processing-Computer 715 Data Processing-Computer Service 720 Shop 725 Shop Service 730 Central Storage 735 Central Storage Service 740 Vehicle Storage 745 Vehicle Storage Service 750 Central Services Health Care Facilities (Student & Animal) 810 Patient Bedroom 820 Patient Bath 830 Nurse Station 840 Surgery 850 Health Treatment 855 Patient Isolation Room 860 Health Service Laboratory 870 Health Supplies 880 Health Care Public Waiting 890 Health Staff On-Call 895 Health Care Service Residential Facilities 910 Single Bedroom 919 Toilet-Bath-Shower 935 Closet 940 Lounge (Closed access - housing only) 943 Shared Bedroom (Double or more) 950 Apartment Space 970 House |
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Unclassified Room Space (Non-Assignable)
| AREA | USE/DEFINITION | INCLUDES | LIMITATIONS/COMMENTS |
| 010 Custodial Area | For servicing the maintenance and operation functions of a facility. | Janitor closets, janitor rooms, janitor toilets, trash rooms, maintenance supply and storage closets, building storage areas, etc. | Does not include mechanical rooms, public toilets, lobbies, corridors, unit storage, or other service spaces associated with other room types. used by the maintenance staff should not be coded with this code, but under the appropriate room type that best represents the function of the room. |
| 011 Fallout Shelter | |||
| 020 Circulation Area | A primary way to move from one space to another in a building, or in or out of the building. | Hallways, vestibules, corridors, passageways, alcoves, foyers, loading platforms, receiving or shipping areas, and ramps. Includes smaller corridors that serve a small group of rooms (formerly referred to as a suite) that may be behind locked doors. | Does not include space for circulation within another space, such as in libraries, gymnasiums, shops, etc. Does not include passageways that house supporting equipment for adjacent rooms (see appropriate service room type category). |
| 021 Staircase | A primary way to move from one floor level to another within a facility. | Open or enclosed stairs and fire stairs within a facility, | Does not include stairs used for minor changes in level on one floor, or exterior stairs. |
| 022 Elevator | Mechanical conveyance of people and/or freight from one level to another. | Passenger and freight elevators, lifts, book lifts, and dumbwaiters. | None |
| 024 Lobby | Transition from an exterior or interior Circulation Area to an area of specific use. | Auditorium anterooms and any dual purpose areas that serve as both lounge and Circulation Area. Generally, contains benches, seats, and/or coat racks. | Areas or rooms with a receptionist. |
| 029 Elevator Machine Room | A restricted-access, enclosed machinery space outside the hoist way, intended for full bodily entry that contains the drive machine, electrical and/or mechanical equipment used directly to support the vertical conveyance systems of passenger elevators, freight elevators, service elevators, dumb waiters, material lifts and wheelchair lifts. | Only rooms that support vertical conveyance. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers requires that this room cannot be used for any other purpose. These rooms house equipment that contains pinch-points, high voltage, and rotating elements, and access is limited to authorized personnel. | Does not include rooms that support horizontal conveyance systems, or rooms supporting other mechanical systems. |
| 030 Mechanical Area | Included are covered and walled areas that one or more utility and/or mechanical functions for the building. These areas range from large rooms co-located on a “mechanical” floor, or basement area to small closet spaces distributed throughout the building. Such areas, while generally located within the exterior walls of a building or as an accessible roof structure, may be separately housed adjacent to the structure they serve. | Such areas, commonly referred to as electrical, meter, network, or telecommunications spaces, include air-conditioning rooms, boiler rooms, cooling towers, electrical rooms, emergency generators, fan rooms, heat distribution rooms, incinerator rooms, machine rooms, mechanical rooms, pump rooms, transformer rooms, and utility corridors or horizontal shaft space. | Does not include: machine or equipment rooms directly related to laboratories or shops. |
| 031 Public Toilet | Toilet rooms used by faculty, staff, students, and the public. | Lounges associated with rest rooms, handicapped rest rooms, and toilet rooms with showers. | Does not include shower facilities associated only with locker rooms, or emergency chemical showers located in hallways. |
| 032 Private Toilet | Toilet rooms or shower facilities associated with a particular suite of rooms or used by a specific person or unit. | Toilet rooms with use limited to a single individual or restricted to use by a specific unit. | Does not include mudrooms or toilet rooms available to the public. |
| 035 Shaft | Area within a building specifically dedicated to vertical mechanical ducts. | Accessible ducts for movement of air, pipe ducts, ducts for hoisting equipment, areaways, etc. | Does not include crawl spaces, pipes located in walls, floors, or other structural membranes of the building. |
| 050 Incapable of Use | Unoccupied rooms that cannot be used due to environmental deficiency. | Attics. | Rooms that are being modified or are not completed at the time of the inventory update are classified Alteration or Conversion Area (060). Does not include storage areas. |
| 060 Alteration or Conversion Area | Rooms that are temporarily out of use because they are being altered, remodeled, or rehabilitated at the time of the inventory update. | ||
| 081 Department Moved, Capable of Use | To identify a room in a facility that has been vacated by the department and is waiting for re-occupancy. | All rooms with vacant occupancy. Does not imply furnishings and other items have been removed. |
Classroom Space
| AREA | USE/DEFINITION | INCLUDES | LIMITATIONS/COMMENTS |
| 110 Classroom | A room or space used primarily for instruction classes, and that is not tied to a specific subject or discipline by equipment in the room or the configuration of the space. | Rooms or spaces generally used for scheduled instruction that require no special, restrictive equipment or configuration. These spaces may be called lecture rooms, lecture- demonstration rooms, and general purpose classrooms. A classroom may be equipped with tablet armchairs, (fixed to the floor, joined in groups, or flexible in arrangement), tables and chairs (as in a seminar room), or similar types of seating. These spaces may contain multimedia or telecommunications equipment. A classroom may be furnished with special equipment appropriate to a specific area of study, if this equipment does not render the space unsuitable for use by classes in other areas of study. | Does not include conference rooms (350), meeting rooms (680), auditoria (610), or class laboratories (210-230). Conference and meeting spaces are distinguished from seminar spaces according to primary use; spaces with chairs and tables that are used primarily for meetings (as opposed to classes) are conference spaces or meeting rooms (see codes 350 and 680 for distinction). Auditoria are distinguished from lecture rooms based on primary use. A large room with seating oriented toward some focal point, and that is used for dramatic or musical productions, is an assembly (610) facility (e.g., an auditorium normally used for purposes other than scheduled classes). A class laboratory is distinguished from a classroom based on equipment in the space and by its restrictive use. If a space is restricted to a single or closely related group of disciplines by special equipment or its configuration, it may be logically considered a laboratory (see code 200 series). |
| 115 Classroom Service | A room that directly serves one or more classrooms as an extension of the activities in that room. | Projection rooms, coatrooms, preparation rooms, closets, and storage rooms if they serve classrooms. | Does not include projection rooms coatrooms, preparation rooms, closets or storage rooms if they serve instructional laboratories, conference rooms, meeting rooms, assembly facilities, etc. |
Laboratory Room Space
| AREA | USE/DEFINITION | INCLUDES | LIMITATIONS/COMMENTS |
| 210 Class Laboratory, Dry (Regularly Scheduled) | Room used primarily for formally or regularly scheduled classes that require special purpose equipment or a specific space configuration for student participation, experimentation, observation, or practice in an academic discipline. A space is considered scheduled if the activities generate weekly student contact hours, the activities fulfill course requirements, and/or there is a formal convener present. Neither water nor a fume hood is present within the room. | Class laboratories designed for or furnished with equipment to serve the needs of a particular discipline for group instruction in formally or regularly scheduled classes. This special equipment normally limits or precludes the space’s use by other disciplines. Included are spaces generally called teaching laboratories, instructional shops, computer laboratories, drafting rooms, band rooms, choral rooms, (group) music practice rooms, language laboratories, (group) studios, theater stage areas used primarily for instruction, instructional health laboratories, and similar specially designed or equipped rooms, if they are used primarily for group instruction in formally or regularly scheduled classes. Computer rooms used primarily to instruct students in the use of computers are classified as class laboratories if that instruction is conducted primarily in formally or regularly scheduled classes. | Does not include classrooms (110). Does not include informally scheduled or unscheduled laboratories (see open class laboratory, 220). Does not include spaces generally defined as research/non-class laboratories (250). Does not include gymnasia, pools, drill halls, laboratory schools, demonstration houses, and similar facilities that are included under special use facilities (code 500 series). Computer rooms in libraries or used primarily for study should be classified as study rooms (410). |
| 212 Class Laboratory, Wet (Regularly Scheduled) | Room used primarily for formally or regularly scheduled classes that require special purpose equipment or a specific space configuration for student participation, experimentation, observation, or practice in an academic discipline. A space is considered scheduled if the activities generate weekly student contact hours, the activities fulfill course requirements, and/or there is a formal convener present. Water and/or one or more fume hoods is/are available within the room to serve the function of the room. | See the Includes description for 210 Class Laboratory, Dry. The primary distinction here is the presence of water and/or a fume hood within the room. | See the Limitations/Comments for 210, Class Laboratory, Dry. |
| 215 Class Laboratory Service, Dry, Service | Room that directly serves one or more “dry” class laboratories as an extension of the activities. | Any space that directly serves a dry class laboratory. Included are projection rooms, telecommunications control booths, coatrooms, preparation rooms, closets, material storage (including temporary hazardous materials storage), balance rooms, cold rooms, stockrooms, darkrooms, equipment issue rooms, etc., if they serve regularly scheduled, dry class laboratories. | Does not include service spaces that support a classroom (see 115), open class laboratory (see 225), or a research/non-class laboratory (see 255). Animal (570) and greenhouse (580) facilities are categorized separately. |
| 217 Class Laboratory Service, Wet, Service | Room that directly serves one or more “wet” class laboratories as an extension of the activities. | Any space that directly serves a wet class laboratory. Included are projection rooms, telecommunications control booths, coatrooms, preparation rooms, closets, material storage (including temporary hazardous materials storage), balance rooms, cold rooms, stockrooms, darkrooms, equipment issue rooms, etc., if they serve regularly scheduled, wet class laboratories. | Does not include service spaces that support a classroom (see 115), open class laboratory (see 225), or a research/non-class laboratory (see 255). Animal (570) and greenhouse (580) facilities are categorized separately. |
| 220 Open Class Laboratory (Irregularly Scheduled) | Laboratory used primarily for group instruction in experimentation, observation, or practice in a field of study. The laboratory is informally scheduled, unscheduled, or open. | Laboratories designed for or furnished with equipment that serves the needs of a particular discipline or discipline group for group instruction, where (1) use of the space is not formally or regularly scheduled, or (2) access is limited to specific groups of students. Included in this category are music practice rooms, language laboratories, and other special laboratories or learning laboratories (e.g., speech, hearing, law, psychology, and health-related professions) if discipline restricted, individual laboratories, and computer laboratories involving specialized restrictive software or where access is limited to specific categories of students. For example, a computer laboratory with only engineering or CAD software, or a computer-based writing laboratory available only to English Composition students would be classified as an open laboratory because of the restricted usage of the space for a particular discipline or discipline group. | Laboratories with formally or regularly scheduled classes are classified as a class laboratory, dry (210) or class laboratory, wet (212). This category also does not include spaces defined as research/non-class laboratory (250). A space that contains equipment (e.g., computers), that does not restrict use to a specific discipline or discipline group and is typically used at a student’s convenience, should be classified as a study room (410). Instructional laboratories designed primarily for individual (vs. group) study or practice should be coded as individual study laboratories (230). |
| 225 Open Class Laboratory Service | Room directly serving one or more open class laboratories as an extension of the activities in those rooms. | Only those spaces that directly serve an open class laboratory. Included are projection rooms, telecommunications control booths, coatrooms, preparation rooms, closets, material storage (including temporary hazardous materials storage), balance rooms, cold rooms, stockrooms, darkrooms, equipment issue rooms, and similar facilities, if they serve open class laboratories. | Does not include service spaces that support a classroom (see 115), class laboratory (see 215 or 217), or research non-class laboratory (see 255). Animal (570) and greenhouse (580) facilities are categorized separately. |
| 230 Individual Study Laboratory | Laboratory used primarily for individual student experimentation, observation, or practice in a particular field of study. The space is informally scheduled, unscheduled, or open. | Music practice rooms, individual study laboratories, sound booths used in language learning, and similar rooms that serve a particular field of study area and are intended for individual use. | Does not include individual study facilities that are intended for general purposes. Study areas not related to a specific area of study are classified as study facilities. |
| 235 Individual Study Laboratory, Service | Room that directly serves one or more individual study laboratories as an extension of the activities in those rooms. | Equipment storage rooms, stockrooms, and similar rooms that serve an individual study laboratory (230). | Does not include rooms that serve class laboratories (210, 212), open class laboratories (220), or non-class laboratories (250). Rooms that provide housing for laboratory animals are classified as animal quarters. Greenhouses are separately coded. |
| 250 Non-Class Laboratory (Research) | Room used for laboratory application, research, and/or training in research methodology requiring special purpose equipment for staff and/or student experimentation or observation. | Rooms generally referred to as research laboratories and research laboratory-offices. | Does not include rooms generally referred to as teaching laboratories, such as class laboratories, special class laboratories or individual study laboratories. |
| 255 Non-Class Laboratory Service (Research) | Room that directly services one or more non-class laboratories as an extension of the activities in those rooms. | Balance rooms, cold rooms, stockrooms, dark rooms, etc. that serve a non-class laboratory. | Does not include balance rooms, cold rooms, stockrooms, darkrooms, etc. that serve a class, special class, or individual study laboratory. Rooms that provide housing for laboratory animals are classified as animal quarters. Greenhouses are separately coded. |
| 260 Department Special Service | Central facilities dedicated to unit or divisional service for supplying needed components of a particular nature, or for special equipment used by students or faculty in the pursuit of the answer to a problem. | Workshops, radiation rooms, special preparation rooms, x-ray rooms, temperature control rooms, repair rooms, equipment rooms, photographic laboratories, electronic laboratories, and specially designed rooms to accomplish the tasks. | |
| 270 Incubator Laboratory | Rooms with temperature and humidity control for production of plant tissue cultures, hatching, and brooding. | Complete rooms constructed in the building infrastructure that have a controlled atmosphere. | Does not include rooms that have one or more pieces of equipment or chambers that are called incubators. |
| 272 Walk-In Environmental Chambers | Room with controlled atmosphere and/or lighting generally used for plant growth, tissue culture, or rearing insects or other small non-vertebrate animals. | Complete rooms constructed for controlled atmosphere, generally manipulating temperature, light and/or humidity beyond what is found in the surrounding room environment. | Does not include reach-in chambers, which are pieces of stand-alone equipment that exist within other room types (possibly within Room Type 275, Environmental Chamber Service). Does not include walk-in coolers or freezers used for food storage. (Use Food Facility Service, 635). |
| 275 Environmental Chamber Service | Room that directly services one or more walk-in or reach in environmental chambers. | Any small circulation area immediately outside a walk-in environmental chamber that exists between public circulation and the walk-in itself; Any room that contains multiple walk-in or reach-in chambers, the room’s sole purpose should be to support the use of the chambers; Any room that is used to support the use of nearby chambers, for example, a room where plants are potted, prepped, measured, etc. or a room where insects are manipulated while normally residing in cages or containers in chambers. |
Office Room Space
| AREA | USE/DEFINITION | INCLUDES | LIMITATIONS/COMMENTS |
| 310 Office, Private | Room configured for occupancy primarily by one person, where activities and routines that involve the following tasks occur: writing; communicating with others in person or electronically; small-scale meetings with students, colleagues, staff, and other visitors; preparing reports, document- and Internet- based research; developing course materials; conducting transactions with members of the university community, etc. | Office space sized for assignment to one permanent occupant. The room may often contain a small table and guest chairs. | |
| 314 Office, Shared | Room configured for occupancy by two to four people, where activities and routines that involve the following tasks occur: writing; communicating with others in person or electronically; small-scale meetings with students, colleagues, staff, and other visitors; preparing reports, document- and Internet- based research; developing course materials; conducting transactions with members of the university community, etc. | Office space sized and configured for occupancy by two to four individuals These spaces are sometimes rooms that can flex between serving as a private office for one occupant and a shared office. | |
| 315 Office Service | Room that directly serves an office or group of offices as an extension of the activities in those rooms. | File rooms, breakrooms, kitchenettes serving office areas, copy and fax rooms, vaults, closets, records rooms, office supply rooms, first aid rooms serving office areas, student counseling rooms and testing (assessment, non-health, non- discipline-related) rooms, and open and private (restricted, nonpublic) circulation areas. | Waiting, interview, and testing spaces are included as office service if they serve a specific office or office area and not a classroom laboratory or clinic. A student counseling (non-health) testing room should be coded as office service (315). A receptionist room that includes a waiting area should be coded as office, open plan (320). Lounges that serve specific office areas and that are not generally available to the public should be coded as office service (315). |
| 320 Office, Open Plan | Room configured for occupancy by more than four people, where activities and routines that involve the following tasks occur: writing; communicating with others in person or electronically; small-scale meetings with students, colleagues, staff, and other visitors; preparing reports, document- and internet- based research; developing course materials; conducting transactions with members of the university community, etc. | Office space sized and furnished/equipped for assignment to more than four people. A receptionist room that includes a waiting area should be coded here. | |
| 350 Office, Conference Room | Room serving an office complex and used primarily for staff meetings and unit activities that are not directly related to instruction. | Conference space typically equipped with tables and chairs. Normally used by a specific organizational unit or office area, whereas meeting rooms (680) are used for general purposes such as community or campus group meetings not associated with a particular department. If a space is used for both conference and meeting space functions, the space should be classified according to its principal use. A conference space is distinguished from facilities such as seminar rooms, lecture rooms, and classrooms (110), because it is used primarily for activities other than scheduled classes. A conference space is intended primarily for formal gatherings, whereas a lounge is intended for relaxation and casual interaction. This category includes teleconference spaces. | Does not include classrooms, seminar rooms, lecture rooms (see Classrooms, 110), auditoria (see Assembly, 610), departmental lounges (see Office Service, 315), open lounges (see Lounge, 650), and meeting rooms (680). |
| 355 Office, Conference Room Services | Room that directly serves one or more conference rooms as an extension of the activities in that room. | Rooms such as kitchenettes, chair storage rooms, projection rooms sound equipment rooms, etc. if they serve conference rooms. | Does not include kitchens, dining rooms, and similar facilities in centralized conference-type facilities (see Meeting Room Service, 685). Dining rooms open to the student body at large and/or the public are categorized as food facilities (635). |
Study Room Space
| AREA | USE/DEFINITION | INCLUDES | LIMITATIONS/COMMENTS |
| 410 Reading- Study Room | Room used by individuals to study books or audiovisual materials. | Rooms generally referred to as library reading rooms, carrels, study rooms, individual study stations, study booths, etc. that are intended to be used for general study purposes. Study stations may be grouped as in a library reading room or individualized as in a carrel. Study stations in a reading room may include typewriters, remote terminals of a computer or other electronic display equipment, etc. In addition to libraries, reading rooms may be found in residence halls or academic buildings. | Does not include individual study laboratories that are limited in use to a particular area of study, nor classrooms, class laboratories, special class laboratories, non-class laboratories, offices, sleep-study rooms in residence halls or other housing units, waiting room, or lounge facilities. |
| 420 Library Stack | Room used to house arranged collections of educational materials for use as a study resource. | Rooms generally referred to as library stacks in central, branch, or unit libraries, characterized by accessible, arranged, and managed collections. Collections can include books, periodicals, journals, monographs, micro-materials, electronic storage media (e.g., tapes, disks, slides, etc.), music scores, maps, and other educational materials. | Does not include bookshelf space in classrooms, laboratories, or offices. Audio-visual film and tape libraries that generally serve groups rather than individuals are classified as audio-visual, radio, TV facilities (530). Separate tape storage rooms for language laboratories should be classified as laboratory service (see 200 series). Separate rooms containing musical scores, records, and tapes are classified as stack space if the primary purpose of the materials is for instruction or research as in a library or music building. Rooms containing such materials and intended for listening enjoyment, as in a student union, and should be classified as recreation facilities service (675). |
| 430 Open Stack Reading Room | Room that is a combination of a reading area and stacks, generally without physical boundaries between the stacks and reading areas. | Further limitations are defined under reading-study room (410) and library stack (420). | |
| 440 Processing Room | Room that serves a reading- study room, a stack, or an open-stack reading room as a supporting service to such rooms. | Areas generally used to house card catalogs, circulation desks, bookbinding, microfilm processing, and audiovisual record-playback equipment for distribution to individual study stations. | Does not include such library space as offices for staff; campus-wide or centralized audiovisual preparation areas; or instructional facilities for library science staff. |
| 455 Study Service | Room that directly serves reading-study rooms, stacks, open-stack reading rooms, or processing rooms as a direct extension of the activities in those rooms. | Other categories in these definitions that provide a “service” category for each type of room. Because such facilities are minimal in library-type spaces, this one category of study facility service space is provided for all types of study facilities. Including areas such as closets, locker space, coat rooms, etc. |
Special Use Room Space
| AREA | USE/DEFINITION | INCLUDES | LIMITATIONS/COMMENTS |
| 510 Armory | Room or an area used by ROTC units. | Indoor drill areas, indoor rifle ranges, and special-purpose military science rooms. | Does not include classrooms, class laboratories, and offices in an armory facility that are designated as classrooms, class laboratories, and offices (even though they are located in an armory building). |
| 515 Armory Service | Room that directly serves an armory facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. | Supply rooms, weapons rooms, coat rooms, etc. | Does not include classroom service, class laboratory service, and office service rooms that are so classified (even though they are located in an armory building). |
| 520 Athletic- Physical Education | Room used by students, staff, or the public for athletic-physical education activities. | Rooms generally referred to as gymnasiums, basketball courts handball courts, squash courts, wrestling rooms, swimming pools, ice rinks, indoor tracks, indoor “fields”, or field houses. | No distinction by room-use category is made on the basis of instructional versus intramural or intercollegiate use of gymnasiums, swimming pools, etc. This category does not include classroom facilities, laboratory facilities, or office facilities, even though they may be located in an athletic building. Also not included are spectator-seating areas, outside fields, tennis courts, archery ranges, etc. This category does not include rooms used for recreational purposes such as bowling alleys, billiards rooms, ping-pong rooms, ballrooms, chess rooms, card-playing rooms, or hobby rooms. |
| 523 Athletic- Facilities- Spectator Seating | Seating area used by students, staff, or the public to watch athletic events. | Permanent seating areas in field houses, gymnasiums, and swimming pools. | Does not include temporary or movable seating areas. Stadium seating by definition is structural area. |
| 525 Athletic- Physical Education Service | Room that directly serves an athletic/physical education facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. | Rooms generally referred to as physical education locker rooms, shower rooms, coaches’ rooms, ticket booths, dressing rooms, equipment supply rooms, first-aid rooms, skate sharpening rooms, towel rooms, etc. | Does not include public toilet rooms. |
| 530 Audio-Visual, Radio, TV | Room used for the production and distribution of audiovisual, radio, and TV materials; or the operation of equipment for the communication of these materials. | Rooms generally referred to as TV studios, radio studios, sound studios, graphics studios, etc. | Does not include studios used primarily as part of an instructional program to train students in communications techniques should be classified as Class Laboratories-Wet/Dry (210/212) if scheduled, or Special Class Laboratories (220) if not scheduled. |
| 535 Audio-Visual, Radio, TV Service | Room that directly serves an audiovisual, radio, or TV facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. | Rooms generally referred to as film libraries, tape libraries, control rooms, videotape recorder rooms, property storage, recording rooms, engineering maintenance rooms, darkrooms, preparation rooms, and equipment storage rooms. | Does not include control rooms, recording rooms, and similar facilities used primarily to train students in communication techniques, which should be classified as Class Laboratory Service Dry/Wet (215/217) or Special Class Laboratory Service (225). |
| 540 Clinic (Non-Medical) | Room used for the diagnosis and/or treatment of patients in a program other than medical (human or veterinary), dentistry, and student health care. | Rooms generally referred to as patient examination rooms, testing rooms, and consultation rooms. Clinics are typically associated with such educational areas as psychology, speech and hearing, remedial reading, and remedial writing. | Does not include clinics associated with student health care, or clinics for the medical or dental treatment of humans or animals. |
| 545 Clinic Service (Non-Medical) | Room that directly services a clinic facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. | Waiting rooms, observation rooms, control rooms, records rooms, etc. | Does not include rooms that serve health care facilities (see 800 series). |
| 550 Demonstration Facility | Room or group of rooms used to practice within an instructional program, the principles of certain disciplines such as teaching, childcare or development, and family and consumer science. | Demonstration day care and development centers, laboratory schools and home economics or management houses, when these facilities are used for practice as a part of collegiate training or instruction. Rooms that serve nursery, elementary, or secondary school students in a laboratory school or preschool nursery. The key criterion here is practice activity within an instructional program that closely simulates a real-world occupational setting. | Does not include demonstration schools, laboratory schools, preschool nurseries, and home management houses in which the students serve as the subjects for a research study. These are not classified as non-class laboratory. However, classrooms or class laboratories in such facilities used primarily for college-level students should be classified as classroom facilities or class laboratories. Offices, conference rooms, and meeting rooms used by college-level staff should be so classified. |
| 555 Demonstration Facility Service | Room that directly serves a demonstration facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. | Facilities generally referred to as storerooms, laundry rooms, etc. in a home demonstration facility; facility, or as kitchens, lockers, shower rooms, etc. in a laboratory school. | The distinction between a demonstration facility and a demonstration facility service is somewhat arbitrary. In general, the primary activity areas such as kitchens, dining rooms, living rooms (in a home demonstration house); and classrooms, laboratories, and gymnasiums that serve nursery, elementary, or secondary school students (in a laboratory school), should be designated as demonstration facilities. |
| 560 Field Building | Barn or similar structure for animal shelter or the handling, storage, and/or protection of farm products, supplies, vehicles and tools; or for field purposes and experiments. | Barns, animal shelters, sheds, feed units, hay storage, and seed houses. Greenhouses related to farm operations are included in this category. Structures are typically of light frame construction with unfinished interiors, usually but not exclusively related to agricultural field operations, and are frequently located outside the central campus area. Includes storage space for farm vehicles and implements. Service areas that support field buildings are classified here. Also included are such facilities as meteorological field test stations. | Animal quarters directly supporting research or instructional laboratories should be coded animal quarters (570). Location of building is not sufficient justification for classification as a field service facility. Finished rooms such as endocrine research laboratories, dairy research laboratories, etc. should be classified as non-class laboratory (250). Does not include buildings that house non-agricultural or non-farm related vehicles. |
| 570 Animal Quarters | Room that houses laboratory animals maintained by the institution for research and/or instruction purposes. | Rooms generally referred to as animal rooms, cage rooms, stalls, wards, and similar rooms that are used to house animals intended for use in class laboratories, non-class, special class, or individual study laboratories. | Does not include areas for treatment of veterinary patient animals (see health care facilities-800 series). Also not included are field buildings (560) sheltering animals that do not directly support instruction or research. |
| 575 Animal Quarters Service | Room that directly serves an animal care facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. | Feed storage rooms, feed mixing rooms, cage-washing rooms, and similar facilities such as non-patient surgery, casting, or instrument rooms. | Does not include areas that directly serve areas used for the treatment of patient animals. See health care facilities (800). |
| 580 Greenhouse | A room, usually primarily composed of glass or other light transmitting material, for the cultivation and/or protection of plants. | Any facility serving the greenhouse function (e.g., warehouse facilities equipped with special lighting controls for the cultivation of plants). | Does not include greenhouses related to farm operations. Also not included are greenhouses not used for plant cultivation (e.g., a greenhouse used for central storage should be coded 730). |
| 585 Greenhouse Service | Room that directly serves a greenhouse facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. | Equipment or materials storage areas and rooms generally referred to as head houses. | Does not include greenhouses related to farm operations, or storage areas that do not directly serve greenhouses. |
General Use Room Space
| AREA | USE/DEFINITION | INCLUDES | LIMITATIONS/COMMENTS |
| 610 Assembly | Room designed and equipped for the assembly of many persons for events such as dramatic, musical, devotional, livestock judging, or commencement activities. The room can also be used for instructional or classroom activity purposes to a minor or incidental extent. | Theaters, auditoriums, concert halls, arenas, chapels, and livestock judging pavilions that are used primarily for general presentations (speakers), performances (dramatic, musical, dance), and devotional services. Seating areas, orchestra pit, chancels, arenas, aisles and stages (if not used primarily for instruction) are included. Also includes chapels located in health care, residential, or other facilities. | Stage areas used primarily for instruction or practice (dance, music, drama) are typically coded separately as laboratory space. Assembly facilities that are used primarily as instructional lecture halls are classified as classroom facilities. |
| 615 Assembly Service | Room that directly serves an assembly facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. | Check rooms, coat rooms, ticket booths, dressing rooms, projection booths, property storage, makeup rooms, costume and scenery shops and storage, green rooms, multimedia and telecommunications control rooms, etc. | Lobbies are non-assignable space, classified as circulation area (020). A concession stand in an assembly facility is classified as merchandising (660). |
| 620 Exhibition | Room used for exhibition of materials, works of art, artifacts, etc., and intended for general use by faculty, staff, students and the public. | Both unit and institution-wide museums, galleries, and similar exhibition areas used to display materials and items for viewing by both the institutional population and the public; planetariums used primarily for exhibition; and Planetariums used primarily for research, which should be classified in the laboratory (200) series. | Collections that are intended only for instructional purposes and not for general exhibitions (e.g., unit displays of anthropological, botanical, or geological specimens) should be classified as laboratory or laboratory service. Does not include bulletin boards and similar temporary or incidental displays in hallways, student centers, etc., nor collections of educational materials, regardless of form or type (e.g., books, study resource as opposed to exhibition use, code library stack (420). |
| 625 Exhibition Service | Room that directly serves an exhibition facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. | Work rooms, for preparation of materials and displays, vault or other storage for works of art, check rooms, etc. | Research areas in museums are classified as non-class laboratories (250) or non-class laboratory service (255). Service areas for displays that are part of an instructional program are classified as classroom service (115) or laboratory service (215, 217) areas. |
| 630 Food Facility | Room used for eating food. | Dining halls, cafeterias, snack bars, restaurants, and similar eating areas, including such areas in residence halls, faculty clubs, etc. This category includes facilities that are open to the student body and/or the public at large. The primary distinction of a food facility area is the availability of some form of accommodation (seating, counters, and tables) for eating or drinking. This is, therefore, an area intended for the actual consumption of food and drink. Vending areas with seating, counters, or tables, and sit down lunch or vending rooms that serve a shop facility are included in this category. | Vending areas not provided with seating, counters, or tables are classified as merchandising (660) or with the appropriate service code if the vending directly supports or is adjacent to a specific room for consuming the products. Lounges (650) with vending machines that are incidental to the primary use of the room (e.g., relaxation) are coded as part of the lounge if within the room, or as lounge service (655) if separate from and directly supporting the main lounge facility. Break rooms serving specific office areas are classified as office service (315). Eating areas for children in demonstration or day care facilities are classified as primary activity categories within these respective areas, staff-only eating or break rooms in these facilities are classified as service areas. |
| 635 Food Facility Service | Room that directly serves a food facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. | Kitchens, refrigeration rooms, freezers, dishwashing rooms, cafeteria serving rooms, preparation rooms, cleaning rooms, etc., including such areas in residence halls. | Does not include any type of food preparation room that does not serve a food facility or eating area. Kitchenettes in residence facilities that do not serve a dining area are classified Lounge (940). Service areas for vending rooms are classified as merchandising service (665). Kitchens and food preparation areas in demonstration facilities are classified as service areas. |
| 640 Day Care | Space used to provide day or night child or elderly adult care as a nonmedical service to members of the institutional community. | All primary activity spaces that provide oversight, supervision, developmental training, and general personal care for assigned children or adults (e.g., play areas, non-staff eating areas, and child training spaces). This type of facility serves as a central service center for faculty, staff, and students, with members of the community being served, as needed. This is not a medical care facility (i.e., medical attention is strictly limited to maintaining prescribed medication schedules and providing first aid). | Does not include support spaces (e.g., storage rooms, closets, and pantries) typically used as service spaces (see Day Care Service-645); demonstration houses, laboratory schools, or other facilities with a primary function of providing practice for postsecondary students as part of the instructional process; or service areas classified as Central Service (750), and Laboratory Facilities (Code 200 series) that directly support instruction (e.g., vocational training programs for parent education and early childhood education). |
| 645 Day Care Service | Space that directly serves a primary activity space in a day care facility as an extension of the activities in that space. | Storage rooms, closets, kitchens or food preparation areas, pantries, private or staff-only eating areas and rest rooms, and other typical service spaces that support a primary activity area. | Does not include those spaces (e.g., child training spaces, playrooms-see day Care-640) where primary day care activities are conducted. Rest rooms designed for child training should be coded Day Care (640). Eating or training areas for children are classified as primary Day Care (640) activity space. Staff office areas should be coded as Office (310). |
| 650 Lounge | Room used for rest and relaxation that is not restricted to a specific group of people, unit, or area. | Rooms typically equipped comfortably and may include vending machines. A general use lounge differs from an office area by virtue of its public availability. If a room is used by people visiting or passing through a building or area, it is coded here. Such a room may have vending machines if the primary use of the room is rest, relaxation, and informal socializing rather than for eating. | A lounge is distinguished from a conference room and a meeting room by its informal atmosphere and its greater general public availability. A lounge area associated with a toilet is non-assignable space and classified as toilet area. A room devoted wholly to vending machines without accommodation (seating, counters, or tables) for local food or drink consumption is classified as a merchandising facility (660). A lounge that directly serves a specific or restricted area is classified by the appropriate corresponding service code (e.g., lounge serving an assembly is classified 615 assembly service) a lounge differs from a lobby (non-assignable circulation area 024) in placement, use, and intent. Generally, a lobby is located at a major entrance, with openings to hallways on more than one side; and although it may have seating furniture, it is designed more for walking through or having standing conversations than for sitting and relaxing. Separate waiting rooms in other than health care facilities are classified with the appropriate service code according to the room or area they serve. A receptionist room that includes a waiting area should be classified as an office (see 300 series). Public waiting areas in health care facilities are coded as public waiting (880). In residential facilities - a standalone room off a corridor or combined with other rooms behind a secured access corridor that serves as a gathering or study location, and separate food preparation rooms limited to the facility occupants that do not directly serve dining services should be coded to 940 Lounge (Closed access for housing only). |
| 655 Lounge Service | Room that directly serves a general use lounge facility. | Kitchenettes, storage areas, and vending rooms that directly serve a general use lounge facility. | Does not include kitchenettes, storage rooms, and small vending areas that directly serve other room types. |
| 660 Merchandising Facilities | Room used to sell products or services. | Bookstores, barbershops, post offices, dairy stores, student union desks, and vending machine areas devoted wholly to vending machines. | Does not include dining rooms, restaurants, snack bars, and similar food facilities. A vending machine room that directly serves a dining, lounge, or other primary activity area is classified with the appropriate service code; a vending machine area within a general use lounge is included in the lounge (650) space. Vending areas that include accommodations (seating, counters, or tables) for consuming the products are classified as food facility (630). Cashiers’ desks that serve a specific recreational facility or area are classified as service space for that area. |
| 665 Merchandising Facilities Service | Room that directly serves a merchandising facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. | Storage rooms and closets, sorting rooms, private restrooms, and other support rooms if they directly serve a merchandising (660) facility. | Storage rooms, sorting rooms, and private rest rooms that do not directly serve a merchandising area should be classified using the appropriate service code for the corresponding room use type. |
| 670 Recreation | Room used by students, staff, and/or the public for recreational purposes. | Bowling alleys, pool and billiard rooms, ping pong rooms, ballrooms, chess rooms, card-playing rooms (non-instructional), music listening rooms, and hobby rooms. Recreation rooms are used for relaxation and amusement-type activities, whereas athletic-physical education (520) facilities are typically used for the more vigorous pursuits within the physical education, intercollegiate athletics, and intramural programs. | Gymnasiums, basketball courts, handball courts, squash courts, wrestling rooms, swimming pools, ice rinks, indoor tracks, indoor fields, or field houses that should be classified as athletic/physical education facilities. Does not include outdoor facilities such as tennis courts, archery ranges, fields (football, hockey, etc.) or golf courses. Does not include bowling alleys, dance rooms, or any other activity areas that are primarily used for instruction. Reading or media use rooms that are designed and intended as study rooms are also excluded from this category. |
| 675 Recreation Service | Room that directly serves a recreation facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. | Storage closets, equipment issue rooms, cashiers’ desks, first aid, and other support areas that directly serve a recreation (670) facility. | Does not include kitchens, short-order kitchens, snack bars, or other food facilities (630) and food facility service (635) areas. Does not include athletic/physical education facility service such as locker rooms, ticket booths, dressing rooms, and other similar service areas. |
| 680 Meeting Room | Room used for a variety of non-class meetings. | Rooms used by groups for general purposes such as student senate, student government, community groups, and short-term meetings conducted by an extension division. The key concept here is public availability. Conference rooms (350) are often confused with meeting rooms because they are both primarily used for non-class meetings. However, conference rooms are restricted service components of an office complex or used by office occupants of a specific area and are generally limited to staff meetings or other unit non-class activities. Although it may be assigned to a specific organizational unit, a meeting room is more available and open to various groups. Meeting rooms may be configured like classrooms (i.e., with participant focus to the front of the room), and may be equipped with a variety of furniture types (e.g., tables and chairs, lounge type furniture, tablet armchairs, or a large table) in various combinations and arrangements. | Rooms serving an office complex and used primarily for staff meetings are classified as conference rooms. Instructional rooms used primarily for scheduled classes are classified as classroom (see 100 series) facilities. Rooms designed and equipped for the assembly of many persons for such events as dramatic, musical, or devotional activities, etc., should be classified as assembly (610). |
| 685 Meeting Room Service | Room serves a meeting room as an extension of the activities in that room. | Kitchenettes, multimedia storage and control rooms, furniture storage rooms, and other support rooms that directly serve a meeting room. | Does not include kitchenettes, storage rooms, and other support areas that serve conference rooms (355) or assembly facilities (615). |
| 690 Locker Room | Room used for changing clothes and/or storing personal materials. | Service rooms intended for student and/or staff use principally for storage of clothing and/or individual materials, (e.g., Physical plant locker rooms). | Does not include physical education or intercollegiate athletics locker rooms and areas. These should be coded athletic physical education service (525). |
Supporting Room Space
| AREA | USE/DEFINITION | INCLUDES | LIMITATIONS/COMMENTS |
| 710 Data Processing- Computer | Room used as a computer based data processing or telecommunications center with applications that are broad enough to serve the overall administrative or academic primary equipment needs of a central group of users, unit, college, school, or entire institution. | Central rooms housing computer or computers (e.g., large mainframe, minicomputers, etc.), peripheral input (e.g., data entry terminals, input tape or disk drives, data reading equipment, etc.), or output (e.g., printers, output tape or disk drives, etc.) devices. This category also includes rooms in a central computer complex that are primarily or exclusively dedicated to data or program code entry or job submissions through one or more terminals. A central computer or telecommunications room may be one of a group or rooms that constitute a center for delivering computer-based data processing or telecommunications services to various levels of user groups. Although the ongoing primary activity of this category is tied more closely to equipment than human activity, these areas require technical support staff, and physical access may be restricted to these personnel. These central equipment rooms appear most frequently at the campus-wide and large organizational unit levels and are generally subject to environmental and security controls and procedures limiting users to electronic terminal, telephone or modem access. Also included are computer and network-based telecommunications equipment rooms, ranging from micro driven LAN (local area) to the larger PBX (private bench) network centers, including central rooms housing satellite signal reception or transmission equipment. This equipment may be dedicated to data, audio or telephone, video or any combination of these electronic transmissions. | Does not include office space assigned to programmers, analysts, engineers, data entry personnel, and other technical staff, even though these rooms usually contain an access terminal. This also does not include instructional laboratories and study rooms equipped with personal computers or terminals (see 200 series), or offices with data processing equipment used as office tools. Personal computer or terminal workrooms and printer rooms that serve an office area should be coded office service (315). Small closet areas housing reception or distribution telecommunications equipment and wiring that are not used by technical or support staff on a regular basis (i.e., repair or modification only) should be classified as central computer service (715). |
| 715 Data Processing- Computer Service | Room that directly serves a central computer or telecommunications facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. | Such rooms as paper and forms storage; off-line tape and disk storage; separate control or console rooms or booths; tool and parts rooms; bursting and decollating rooms; areas used to store only inactive support equipment (e.g., multiplexers, modems, spoolers, etc.); and separate areas used for delivering tapes or picking up printouts. Also included are the repair and assembly rooms that directly serve the central computer or telecommunications facility. Small closet areas housing reception or distribution telecommunications equipment and wiring that are not used by technical or support staff on a regular basis (i.e., repair or modification only) should be classified here. | Does not include office areas for personnel (e.g., technicians, engineers, analysts, programmers) assigned to the central computer facility; primary equipment (computer, i/o device) rooms; office areas containing data processing or networking office equipment or materials; or rooms directly supporting study rooms or laboratories (see 200 series) that contain special computer equipment used for study, instruction, or research. A nonoffice workroom containing a remote printer or data/job entry terminal that is part of an office area, and not the central computer facility, should be coded office service (315). A printer room serving a general purpose terminal room in a dormitory should be classified as study service (455). |
| 720 Shop | Room used for the manufacture, repair, or maintenance of products or equipment. | Carpenter shops, plumbing shops, electrical shops, painting shops, and similar physical plant maintenance facilities. It also includes central printing and duplicating shops. | Does not include instructional shops, industrial arts and vocation-technical shops used for instruction, which should be classified as class laboratories (see 200 series). Blueprint storage rooms are classified as office service (315). Small, incidental equipment repair, assembly, or cleaning rooms that directly serve an adjacent or nearby primary activity room should be classified according to the appropriate corresponding service code. Does not include areas used for repair and maintenance of institution-owned vehicles, which should be coded as vehicle storage service (745), or costume and scene “shops” serving theatre areas, which should be coded as assembly service (615). Greenhouses used for campus physical maintenance or improvements should be coded as greenhouse (580). |
| 725 Shop Service | Room that directly serves a shop facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. | Tool-supply storage, materials storage, and similar equipment or material supply and/or storage. Locker, shower and lunchrooms, and similar non-public areas that serve the shop facility should be included. | Does not include service areas related to class or non-class laboratories, or vehicular repair facilities (garages), which should be classified as vehicle-storage facility service (745). Blueprint storage rooms should be classified as office service (315). Sit-down lunch or vending rooms that serve a shop facility are classified food facility (630). |
| 730 Central Storage | Room or building used to store materials or equipment that serves multiple room use categories, organizational units, or buildings. | Central storage facility (warehouse) and inactive unit storage. The concept of central or general is the key to applying this code correctly. The vast majority of storage rooms on campus are service rooms that directly support a primary activity room or room group: for example, a paper storage room, office service (315) can serve several offices in an area. Service storage rooms are somewhat close to the areas they serve and are used more than occasionally. Storage areas include areas commonly called surplus storage, central campus supply, or warehouses. It also includes storage rooms in a building or building area that serve multiple room use categories and that are used for general or surplus (e.g., furniture, equipment) collection storage. The 730 code can usually be used for all storage areas that do not qualify as service rooms. | Storage related to other types of space follows the classification of that type of space with a “service” designation. For example, a storage closet for office supplies is classified as office service (315). The distinction between the “service” and “storage” classification rests on the possibility of physical separation of the materials stored. If the materials being stored could be placed in a warehouse, implying only occasional demand for the materials, then storage facility is the appropriate classification. Storage that must be close at hand because of the nature of the materials stored, and the demands placed upon them by the program, should be classified in the appropriate “service” category. Offices within warehouses or other central storage buildings are coded as the appropriate office (see 300 series). |
| 735 Central Storage Service | Space that directly serves a central storage facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. | Central storage service spaces are typically limited to support rooms associated with the transporting of materials in and out of large central storage facilities and warehouses. Storage spaces for hand trucks and other moving equipment, shelving storage, and other spaces supporting the central storage function are included. | Only those spaces directly supporting the (usually) larger Central Storage (730) area should be classified with this code. |
| 740 Vehicle Storage | Room or structure used to house or store vehicles. | Structures, buildings, and rooms generally called garages, boathouses, and airplane hangars. The definition of “vehicle” is broadly interpreted here to include forklifts, moving equipment and other powered transport devices or equipment. | Does not include unroofed surface parking lots. It also does not include structures that house or store farm vehicles and implements, which should be code field building (560). |
| 745 Vehicle Storage Service | Room that directly serves a vehicle storage facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. | Any rooms directly serving a vehicle storage facility, such as storage rooms and areas used for maintenance and repair of automotive equipment, boats, airplanes and other vehicles as defined in vehicle storage (740). | Does not include shops as defined in shop (720) (e.g., carpenter, plumbing electrical, painting, etc.). Offices within a vehicle storage facility should be classified as offices (300 series). |
| 750 Central Services | Central room for the processing and storage of foods used in food facilities or a central laundry room used for cleaning, washing, drying and ironing linens, uniforms, etc. | Food storage areas, lockers, cold rooms, refrigerators, meat processing areas, and similar facilities located in a central food storage building. Also, laundry, drying, and ironing rooms located in a central laundry building. | Offices and conference rooms located in a central food-storage or laundry building are classified as offices and conference rooms (300 series). Food storage areas, freezers, lockers, etc. not located in a central food storage facility are classified as food facility service (635). Laundry rooms serving a single building are classified as service types for the kind of room they support, such as Sleep-Study Service (935), Athletics PE Service (525), or Health Care Service (895). |
Note: The Health Care Room Space category includes the room uses listed below that are in student health facilities, health professions clinics, and in hospitals. The codes and definitions in this series are designed to describe health care facilities for humans as well as animals requiring health care. This category does not include non-medical clinic facilities. Offices that serve in health care activities are classified as offices.
Health Care Room Space
| AREA | USE/DEFINITION | INCLUDES | LIMITATIONS/COMMENTS |
| 810 Patient Bedroom | Room equipped with a bed and used for patient care. | General nursing care, acute care, semi-convalescent/rehabilitative adult or pediatric bedrooms, intensive care units, progressive coronary care units, emergency bed care units, observation units, infant care nurseries, incubator units, wards, etc. Connected clothes closets are included. Stalls for animal patients are also included. | Does not include student residence quarters (see 900 series). Staff on-call rooms for resting should be coded staff on-call (890). Also does not include non- patient animal shelters for farm animals, code field building (560) or non-veterinary school laboratory animals, which should be coded as animal quarters (570). |
| 820 Patient Bath | Room containing patient bath and toilet facilities. | Toilet/bath facilities adjoining or in conjunction with patient bedrooms. | Public toilet facilities are excluded. |
| 830 Nurse Station | Room or area used by nurses who are supervising and/or administering health care. | Areas devoted to records charting, reception desks, admissions desks, and areas adjoining nurses stations, such as utility rooms, work-storage areas, formula preparation areas, medication areas, etc. | Rooms that can be identified as offices should be classified as such. |
| 840 Surgery | Room used for surgery. | Major and minor surgery rooms, delivery rooms, special-procedures operating rooms, and rooms used in conjunction with and as a direct extension of the activities of a surgery room, such as labor rooms, recovery rooms, monitoring/ observation rooms, special support equipment rooms (e.g., anesthesia, heart, lung, x-ray, etc.), dictation booths, scrub-up areas, instrument cleanup and storage, gurney storage, sterile supplies storage. | |
| 850 Health Treatment | Room used for diagnostic and therapeutic treatment. | Rooms used for radiology, fluoroscopy angiography, physical therapy, dialysis, cardiac catheterization, pulmonary function, vascular testing, EEG, ECG, EMG, combination doctor’s offices and examination/ treatment rooms, and rooms that support treatment rooms as a direct extension of the activities of a facility, such as dressing rooms, film processing and viewing rooms, work preparation rooms, special equipment storage. | |
| 855 Hospital Patient Isolation | Room used to seclude patients. | Human and animal patient rooms such as those found in The Ceriale Center for Cornell Health and the Veterinary Medical Center. | Plant isolation rooms are coded as laboratories. |
| 860 Health Service Laboratory | Room used to provide diagnostic support services to health care facilities. | Rooms generally referred to as pathology labs, pharmacy labs, autopsy labs, etc., such as hematology, chemistry tissue, bacteriology serology, blood bank, nasal metabolism, isotope rooms, and rooms that serve service laboratories as a direct extension of the activities of such a facility, such as rooms generally referred to as cadaver storage morgue, autoclave and centrifuge rooms, warm and cold rooms. | Does not include class laboratories, special class laboratories, or other facilities used primarily for organized instruction. |
| 870 Health Supplies | Room used to store supplies for health care facilities. | Central supply, pharmacy supplies/ storage dispensary, miscellaneous storage of a relatively inactive nature, other than that included in other primary and service room types. | Does not include central storage areas for materials or equipment not directly health-care-related (e.g., furniture, office equipment); such areas should be classified central storage (730). Linen closets that serve nurse stations and other limited scope service areas should be classified with the appropriate service code. |
| 880 Health Public Waiting | Room used by the public to await admission, treatment, or information. | Lobbies, waiting and reception areas, visiting areas, and viewing areas. | Lounges are excluded from this category. |
| 890 Staff On-Call | Rooms used by health care staff to rest or sleep while on-call to assigned duties within a health care facility. | Rooms used by doctors, nurses, emergency medical technicians, flight care crews, etc., to rest or sleep while on-call to specific duties within the facility. | Bedrooms for patients should be coded patient bedroom (810); student residence quarters should be classified with the residential facilities (see 900 series) codes. Staff on-call (890) rooms differ from open and service area lounges (650), in that specific provisions are made for sleeping, and use is restricted to staff who typically work a long shift. |
| 895 Health Care Service | Rooms used by Housekeeping, linen storage, and handling. | Rooms used by housekeeping staff for storerooms, closets, locker rooms, etc., for building maintenance and operation. | Non-assignable areas are explicitly excluded from this category. Excluded are mechanical and equipment areas. |
Residential Room Space
| AREA | USE/DEFINITION | INCLUDES | LIMITATIONS/COMMENTS |
| 910 Single Bedroom | A residential room for one individual typically furnished with a bed, without an internally connected bath. | A single bedroom may be a standalone room off a corridor or combined with other rooms with access through a secured corridor. | Does not include study rooms (410). |
| 919 Toilet-Bath- Shower | Toilet and/or bathroom and/or shower stall intended to be used only by the occupants of the residential facilities, rather than by the general public. | Common or shared bathroom facilities that may consist of full or half-baths, showers or toilet and shower combinations, used by the residents, and accessible from a corridor or other general circulation area. | Does not include public toilets (031) or private toilets (032) in public areas of residential facilities or non-residential facilities. |
| 935 Closet | Room (or group of rooms) that directly serve the occupants of sleep-study rooms. | Rooms that directly service rooms coded Single Bedroom (910) residential facilities. Rooms referred to as mail rooms, laundry and pressing rooms, linen closets, maid rooms, serving rooms, trunk storage, and telephone rooms. | Does not include offices (see 300 series), lounges (650), lounges (940), reading-study rooms (410), or meeting rooms (680) in any residential facility, including institutionally controlled hotels or motels. |
| 940 Lounge (Closed access for housing only) | A study and/or food space limited to occupants of a residential facility. | A standalone room off a corridor or combined with other rooms behind a secured access corridor that serves as a gathering or study location, and separate food preparation rooms limited to the facility occupants that do not directly serve dining services. | Residential quarters equipped with internal cooking facilities are coded Apartment (950). Food preparation areas that are open to larger campus populations are coded Food Facility (630). |
| 943 Shared Bedroom (double or more) | Room occupied by more than one individual typically furnished with beds, wardrobes, closets, desks, and chairs. | Suite includes multiple occupancy bedrooms exclusively for residential use. | Single bedroom (910) and their corresponding external toilet-bath- shower (919) rooms are coded separately. |
| 950 Apartment Space | Living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, hallway, or vestibule of a living unit, complete with private cooking facilities. | Living/recreational space in a basic module or group of rooms designed as a complete housekeeping unit which may, i.e., contains bedroom(s), living room(s), kitchen, and toilet facilities. This room type fits within a category that includes apartments provided for faculty, staff, or students. Also, laundry rooms, mail rooms, linen closets, maid rooms, trunk-storage rooms, telephone rooms, and weight or exercise rooms that serve apartment facilities. Apartment service facilities may be in a separate building that serves an apartment complex. Apartments need not be in a residential building. | Does not include single freestanding structures coded house (970) or any residential units that do not contain private cooking facilities. |
| 970 House | Space in a free-standing house. | Basic module or group of rooms designed as a complete housekeeping room(s), kitchen, and toilet facilities. It is not intended that individual rooms be specifically identified within the structure, but only that the total interior area be accounted for. This category includes houses provided for faculty, staff, or students. | Houses and other residential properties that are owned or controlled by an institution as commercial investments, and that do not serve the institution’s primary missions, are often excluded from the formally coded facilities inventory. Also not included are complete living units that are part of a larger structure, which should be coded as apartment space (950). Houses used as office areas should be classified with the office facilities (see 300 series) codes. Note: If the house is a Campus Life unit or is used as office space, each of the rooms of the house must be inventoried. For clarification or further details, contact Facilities Inventory. |