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Classroom facilities include both classrooms and classroom service areas that support the functions of classrooms.

• 100 Classroom: A room scheduled by the registrar that is used for regularly scheduled classes that do not require special-purpose equipment. It includes general purpose classrooms, lecture halls, recitation rooms, seminar rooms, and other spaces used primarily for scheduled, non-laboratory instruction.
  
  
• 115 Classroom Service: A room that directly serves one or more classrooms as an extension of the activities in that room, like a storage room or AV closet that serves a classroom.

Lab facilities are characterized by special purpose equipment or specific room configurations that tie instructional or research activities to a particular discipline or closely related group of disciplines.

• 210 Class Lab: A room used primarily by regularly scheduled classes that require special-purpose equipment or a specific room configuration for student participation, experimentation, or practice in an academic discipline.
  
  
• 215 Class Lab Service: A room that directly serves one or more class labs as an extension of the activities in that room, like a prep room or storage room that serves a class lab.
  
  
• 220 Open Lab: A laboratory that is informally scheduled, unscheduled, or open for both individual and group instruction or research, like a makerspace or general access computer lab.
  
  
• 225 Open Lab Service: A room that directly serves an open lab.
  
  
• 250 Research/Nonclass Lab: A room used primarily by faculty and research staff for laboratory experimentation, research, or training in research methods; professional research and observation; or structured creative activity with a specific program. This includes faculty labs. Excluded are diagnostic labs used within healthcare facilities (see 800s).
  
  
• 255 Research/Nonclass Lab Service: A room that directly serves a research/nonclass lab.

Office facilities are individual or group workspaces assigned to academic, administrative, and service functions.

• 310 Office: A room used by faculty, staff, or student employees working at a desk or other workstation, like a table. An office is typically assigned to one or more people as a workstation or work area. It may be equipped with furniture, computer workstations, or other equipment.
  
  • 31011 Private Individual Office: An office space for one person that can be fully closed off for private conversations, like a director’s office.
    
    
  • 31012 Private Shared Office: An office space for multiple people that can be fully closed off for private conversations, like a room that contains multiple employees’ desks inside.
    
    
  • 31021 Open Individual Office: An office for one person that does not have walls and doors that enable it to become fully private, like a cubicle.
    
    
  • 31022 Open Shared Office: An office for multiple people that does not have walls and doors that enable it to become fully private, like an open area at the end of a hallway with multiple desks or a shared cubicle.
    
    
  • 31030 Hoteling Office Space: An office space where many employees can drop in to work and the workstations remain unassigned, like a part-time faculty work area where ten different part-time faculty utilize four different desks.
    
    
  • 31040 External Office: An office space that is leased or used by an external partner, like an office used by the campus bookstore.
    
    
• 315 Office Service: A room that serves one or more offices. This category encompasses many common office facilities like file rooms, break rooms, kitchenettes, faculty/staff lounges, supply rooms, huddle rooms, mailrooms, and more.
  
  
• 350 Conference Room: A room serving an office complex and used primarily for staff meetings and is not reservable by the public.
  
  
• 355 Conference Room Service: A room that directly serves one or more conference rooms, like a storage room with extra chairs or an AV closet.

While often located within campus libraries, study spaces can appear in almost any type of building. A study space may contain equipment or materials that aid the study or learning process, such as computers or multimedia.

• 410 Study Room: A room or area used by individuals to study at their convenience and which is not restricted to a particular area of study or discipline by contained equipment.
  
  
• 420 Stack: A room or area used to house and arrange a collection of educational materials for use as a study resource. They appear in central, branch, or departmental libraries and are characterized by accessible and managed collections (books, periodicals, journals, electronics, etc.).
  
  
• 430 Open-Stack Study Room: A room or area that is a combination of a study room and stack, generally without physical boundaries between the stack and study area.
  
  
• 440 Processing Room: A room or area devoted to processing materials and supporting library functions.
  
  
• 455 Study Service: A room that directly serves library and study facilities, like a storage room.

Special use facilities include rooms that are sufficiently specialized in their primary activity or function. These include athletics, media production, animal quarters, and agriculture facilities.

• 520 Athletic or Physical Education: A room used by students, staff, or the public for athletic and physical education activities that includes gyms, courts, weight rooms, indoor swimming pools, indoor tracks, climbing walls, and more.
  
  
• 523 Athletic Facilities Spectator Seating: The seating area used by students, staff, or the public to watch athletic events.
  
  
• 525 Athletic or Physical Education Service: A room that serves one or more athletic or physical education rooms. It can include locker rooms, showers, ticket booths, equipment storage, and more.
  
  
• 530 Media Production: A room used for the production or distribution of multimedia materials or signals, often designated as studios.
  
  
• 535 Media Production Service: A room that directly serves a media production room.
  
  
• 550 Demonstration: A room used to practice, within an instructional program, the principles or certain disciplines such as teaching, childcare, home management, or economics.
  
  
• 555 Demonstration Service: A room that directly serves a demonstration room.
  
  
• 570 Animal Quarters: A room that houses laboratory animals used for research or instructional purposes.
  
  
• 575 Animal Quarters Service: A room that directly serves an animal quarters facility, like feed storage and cage washing rooms.
  
  
• 580 Greenhouse: A building or room, usually composed chiefly of glass or other light-transmitting materials, which is used for the cultivation or protection of plants or seedlings for research, instruction, or campus physical maintenance.
  
  
• 585 Greenhouse Service: A room that directly serves a greenhouse.
  
  
• 590 Other/All Purpose: This is a room use code of last resort, and all other room use code options should be explored before designating a room as 590. It is used for those rooms or facilities that cannot be described, even approximately, with other codes and definitions.

General use facilities are characterized by a broader availability, often, but not always, to the public.

• 610 Assembly: A room designed and equipped for the assembly of many persons for such events as dramatic, musical, devotional, or commencement activities. Theaters, concert halls, and non-lecture auditoriums are included in this category.
  
  
• 615 Assembly Service: A room that directly serves an assembly facility, like ticket booths, projection booths, dressing rooms, scenery shops, green rooms, storage rooms, and more.
  
  
• 620 Exhibition: Areas used as exhibition or gallery space.
  
  
• 630 Food Facility: A room used for eating. This includes dining halls, cafeterias, snack bars, restaurants, food courts, and other similar eating areas.
  
  
• 635 Food Facility Service: A room that serves food facilities like kitchens, refrigeration rooms, and other food preparation and storage areas.
  
  
• 650 Lounge: A room used for rest and relaxation that is not restricted to a specific group of people, department, or other campus unit.
  
  
• 650 Lounge Service: A room that directly serves one or more lounge facilities, like kitchenettes, vending areas, and storage rooms.
  
  
• 660 Merchandising: A room or area used to sell products or services. Common merchandising areas include vending machine rooms, central ticket outlets serving multiple facilities and activities, and bookstores.
  
  
• 665 Merchandising Service: A room that directly serves a merchandising facility, including private, employee-only restrooms.
  
  
• 670 Recreation: A room used by students, staff, or the public for recreational purposes. This includes game rooms, ballrooms, reading rooms, and fitness facilities used for relaxation and amusement rather than more vigorous pursuits within physical education, intercollegiate athletics, or intramural programs.
  
  
• 675 Recreation Service: A room that directly serves a recreation facility.
  
  
• 680 Meeting Room: A room used for a variety of nonclass meetings that has greater public availability. Rooms only reservable for a limited number of organizational units are considered conference rooms (350). The key difference is that conference rooms are restricted to an office complex and are usually used for staff meetings, while meeting rooms are more available to student groups, community groups, and various combinations of institutional and community members.
  
  
• 685 Meeting Room Service: A room that directly serves a meeting room.

Support facilities provided centralized space for various auxiliary support systems and services of a campus. They are centralized in that they typically serve an area ranging from an entire building or organizational unit to the entire campus. These spaces help keep all institutional programs and activities operational. Included are centralized areas for computer-based data processing, shop services, and general storage and supply.

• 710 Central Computer or Telecommunications: A room used as a data or telecommunications center with applications that are broad enough to serve the overall administrative or academic equipment needs of a central group of users to an entire institution.
  
  
• 715 Central Computer or Telecommunications Service: A room that directly serves a central computer or telecommunications facility.
  
  
• 720 Shop: A room used for the manufacture, repair, or maintenance of products or equipment. This includes carpentry, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, and painting shops, and similar physical plant maintenance facilities.
  
  
• 725 Shop Service: A room that directly serves a shop facility, like tool storage rooms and similar equipment or materials storage rooms.
  
  
• 730 Central Storage: A room or building used to store equipment or materials that services multiple room use categories, organizational units, or buildings.
  
  
• 735 Central Storage Service: A room that directly serves a central storage facility.
  
  
• 740 Vehicle Storage: A room or structure used to house or store vehicles, including parking decks and garages.
  
  
• 745 Vehicle Storage Service: A room that directly serves a vehicle storage facility.
  
  
• 750 Central Service: A room or area that is used for the processing, preparation, testing, or delivery of a campus-wide support service. This includes centralized food stores, laundries, central facilities for printing, mail, shipping, and receiving that serve more than one building.
  
  
• 755 Central Service Support: A room that directly serves a central service facility.
  
  
• 760 Hazardous Materials Storage: A centralized facility used for the storage of materials planned for future use or distribution that are considered hazardous by the physical, chemical, biological, or radioactive nature of the materials.
  
  
• 770 Hazardous Waste Storage: A centralized facility used for the treatment and/or disposal of hazardous or toxic waste materials.
  
  
• 775 Hazardous Waste Service: Small storage areas used for temporary storage of hazardous or toxic waste materials.

These spaces are for patient care areas that located in separately organized and budgeted health care facilities, which include student infirmaries and health centers, teaching hospitals, standalone clinics run by these hospitals, and veterinary and medical schools. Space codes and definitions apply to both human and animal health care areas. Excluded are clinic facilities used for teaching and located in educational buildings/areas. Also excluded are campus counseling spaces that do not provide psychiatric care.

• 830 Nurse Station: A room or area used by nurses or other patient care staff who are supervising or administering health care services. This includes reception desks and records or charting work areas but excludes offices.
  
  
• 835 Nurse Station Service: A room that directly serves one or more nurse station rooms. Included are lounges, break rooms, private staff restrooms, storage, medication preparation areas, equipment sterilization, and others.
  
  
• 850 Treatment/Examination: A room used for examinations, diagnosis, consultation, or therapeutic treatment of patients.
  
  
• 855 Treatment/Examination Service: A room that directly serves one or more treatment/examination areas. This includes dressing rooms, X-ray reading or viewing rooms, linen rooms, and storage areas. In veterinary institutions, this also includes animal holding areas.
  
  
• 860 Diagnostic Service Lab: A room used to provide diagnostic support services to an entire healthcare facility. This includes pathology, pharmacy, autopsy, isotope rooms, and other diagnostic labs.
  
  
• 870 Central Supplies: A room used centrally to store healthcare supplies in a healthcare facility. In contrast to other service rooms (835, 855) and central storage (730), central supplies facilities typically serve the whole healthcare facility but not the wider campus. Included are pharmacy supply and central storage rooms.
  
  
• 880 Public Waiting: A room used by the public to await admission, treatment, or information within a healthcare facility.

Residential facilities include housing for students, faculty, staff, and visitors to the institution. Hotels, motels, or other guest facilities are included if they are owned or controlled by the institution and used for purposes associated with defined institutional missions, excluding commercial investment.

• 910 Sleep/Study without Toilet or Bath: A residential room for one or more individuals typically furnished with bed(s), wardrobe(s), closet(s), desks(s), and chair(s) without an internally connected bath or toilet.

o            910X – designed and equipped for mobility impaired

• 919 Toilet or Bath: A toilet or bathroom intended only for the occupants or residential facilities, rather than for the public.

o            919X – designed and equipped for mobility impaired

• 920 Sleep/Study with Toilet or Bath: A residential room for one or more individuals, typically furnished with bed(s), wardrobe(s), closet(s), desk(s), and chair(s), with an internally connected bath or toilet.

o            920X – designed and equipped for mobility impaired

• 935 Sleep/Study Service: A room that directly serves occupant of sleep/study rooms. This includes mail rooms, laundry rooms, and shared kitchen/dining areas only for residential occupants. Study rooms within residential facilities are excluded and should be classified as 410.
  
  
• 950 Apartment: Rooms that comprise a complete living unit, with private cooking facilities, that is not a separate structure.

o            950X – designed and equipped for mobility impaired

• 955 Apartment Service: A room or area that directly serves an apartment or group of apartments, like laundry rooms and gym facilities restricted to apartment occupants.
  
  
• 970 House: All rooms that comprise a complete living unit, with private cooking facilities, that is a separate structure.

Below, you will find descriptions of common unclassified and non-assignable spaces that are often given room use codes beginning with zero or letters.

• 010 Elevator
  
  
• 011 Men’s Public Restroom
  
  
• 012 Women’s Public Restroom
  
  
• 013 Unisex Public Restroom
  
  
• 060 Alteration or Conversion Area: Rooms temporarily out of use because they are being altered, remodeled, or rehabilitated.
  
  
• WWW Circulation Areas

o            W02 Elevator Equipment

o            W03 Escalator

o            W04 Loading Dock

o            W05 Lobby

o            W06 Public Corridor

o            W07 Stairway

• XXX Building Service Areas

o            X01 Custodial Closet

o            X02 Janitor Room

o            X04 Trash Room

• YYY Mechanical Areas

o            Y00 Mechanical Area

o            Y01 Utility Plant

o            Y02 Fuel Room

o            Y03 Shaft

o            Y04 Utility

o            Y05 Netcom

• ZZZ Structural Areas

o            Z01 Structural Area