Facilities Inventory: Station Quantity
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Content Updated: April 28, 2026
Content Created: September 5, 2009
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The room station quantity is a number representing the number of spaces for occupants in the room, by design and configuration of the furniture and/or equipment and within any maximum occupancy determination by code enforcement.
The station quantity does not consider the current occupancy, e.g., if only 1 person is assigned to an office with 3 workstations, the station quantity is 3.
The station quantity should reflect the design intent regardless of the current furnishings, e.g., if an instructional laboratory has 15 stations and three are without chairs on the day of a review, the station quantity is 15.
Some Room Types Require Station Quantities
The facility inventory room types in the list in Table 1 below require a non-zero room station quantity. The station quantity is used for reports such as to the State University of New York.
Table 1. Room Types which Require a Non-Zero Station Quantity in the Facilities Inventory
| Space Use Category | Room Type Code | Room Type Description |
|---|---|---|
| Classroom Facilities | 110 | Classroom |
| Laboratory Facilities | 210 | Class Laboratory, Dry (Regularly Scheduled) |
212 | Class Laboratory, Wet (Regularly Scheduled) | |
230 | Individual Study Laboratory | |
250 | Non-Class Laboratory (Research) | |
| Office Facilities | 310 | Office, Private (must be 1, regardless of number of guest chairs) |
314 | Office, Shared (must be 2-4) | |
320 | Office, Open Plan (also reception) | |
350 | Office, Conference Room | |
| Study Facilities | 410 | Reading-Study Room |
430 | Open Stack Reading Room | |
| Special Use Facilities | 510 | Armory |
520 | Athletic-Physical Education | |
523 | Athletic Facilities Spectator Seating | |
550 | Demonstration Facility | |
| General Use Facilities | 610 | Assembly |
620 | Exhibition | |
630 | Food Facility | |
650 | Lounge | |
670 | Recreation | |
680 | Meeting Room | |
| Health Care Facilities (Student & Animal) | 810 | Patient Bedroom |
880 | Health Care Public Waiting | |
| Residential Facilities | 910 | Single Bedroom |
Determining the Station Quantity in Schedulable Spaces
[Instructional and Event Spaces, including Meeting and Conference Rooms]
The station quantity entered into the facilities inventory system may differ from the numbers used in the university scheduling system (25Live®) as event or instructional capacities. Contact Scheduling@Cornell support for information about 25Live® room capacities for scheduling classes or events.
Room Has Posted Occupancy Sign
If there is a posted occupancy sign in the room and the maximum occupancy sign has a single number on it, use that number.
If the sign has multiple numbers for different room configurations such as standing, chairs only, tables and chairs, then use the number which matches the way the room is used most often.
Room Has No Posted Occupancy Sign
For all instructional and event spaces, including conference and meeting rooms, the number of stations is determined by design intent and represents the number of stations that are meant to be occupied by students or participants in a program or meeting in the room.
Do not just count seats (chairs). The physical seats in the room may not match the design intent.
Do count:
- Intentional standing stations,
- Accessible stations without an existing seat surface, and
- Other station types, particularly for 520, athletic-physical education rooms, i.e., use reasonable and intended occupancy rooms identified as a squash court, crew tank, etc.
In general, for general-purpose type instructional spaces, the station quantity is the total number of instructional seats in the location, which includes each seat that has clear sightlines to the front of the room, and a writing surface (tablet, table).
Accessible stations are included in the capacity if: 1) the station consists of a floor space under/behind a writing surface, or 2) the station exists by the removal of a fixed seat and can be “filled” by placing a tablet armchair into the station.