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Facilities Inventory Station Quantity

Room Types Requiring Non-Zero Station Quantities

The facilities inventory room types listed in Table 1 below require non-zero station quantities for reporting to the State University of New York (SUNY) or the Cornell University Environmental Health & Safety program.   Newly created rooms, for example, rooms created after a renovation, have a station quantity of zero.  An error preventing the room from being placed in hold will occur if the room type requires a non-zero station quantity and the station quantity has not been updated.

Table 1.  Room Types Requiring Non-Zero Station Quantities

Room Type Room Type Description
110 Classroom
210

Class Laboratory, Dry (Regularly  Scheduled)
212

Class Laboratory, Wet (Regularly  Scheduled)
220

Open Class Laboratory (Irregularly  Scheduled)
230

Individual Study Laboratory
250

Non-Class Laboratory (Research)
310 Office, Private (station quantity = one)
314 Office, Shared (station quantity = two to four)
320

Office, Open Plan (station quantity = five or more or a single reception station)

350 

 Office, Conference Room
410 Reading-Study Room
430 Open Stack Reading Room
510 Armory
520 Athletic-Physical Education
523 Athletic Facilities Spectator Seating
550 Demonstration Facility
610 Assembly
620 Exhibition
630 Food Facility
650 Lounge
670 Recreation
680 Meeting Room
810 Patient Bedroom
880

Health Care Public Waiting
910 Sleep-Study w/out Toilet/Bath

How to Determine the Station Quantity

 

For rooms with a posted occupancy sign:

  • If the maximum occupancy sign contains a single number, use that number.

  • If the sign contains multiple numbers for different arrangements such as standing, chairs only, tables & chairs, then use the number which matches the way the room is used most often.

For rooms without a posted occupancy sign:

  • If the room contains loose tables & chairs, loose chairs, no furniture, or lounge furniture, enter a station quantity based on the design intent of the room. 

Spaces that could be used for standing room, dining set up, or lecture set up, should use station quantity based on the design intent for the room. (examples - multi-purpose rooms, exhibition spaces, galleries, atria, lobbies) then

  • If the room contains fixed seating made up of seats permanently attached to the floor, then enter a station quantity which equals the count of the number of fixed seats plus the number of wheelchair spaces and include any loose seating which does not block the egress path such as chairs around a table at the front of a lecture hall or chairs along the back of the room.      

  • If the room contains fixed lab benches, for example, in labs, shops, and equipment rooms, then enter a station quantity which equals the total number of people the room can accommodate at all normal work stations, not including any specialized, temporary-use stations.

– see diagram representing instructional labs for a clarification applicable to these types of spaces

·       Fixed or loose workstations (computer workstations, drawing tables, mapping stations)

o   Enter a station quantity that equals the total number of people the room accommodates at all normal work stations, the number of people the room would typically accommodate.

·       Mixed seating – Combination of fixed and loose seating in the same room.  This could include combinations of any or all of the above four station types. Enter station quantity that equals the total number of people the room accommodates

Station Quantity Examples

See additional examples of calculating station quantities in the diagrams below from a May 2012 presentation by Paulien & Associates.