Unclassified Areas

050 INACTIVE (vacant) AREA
        Rooms available for assignment to an organizational unit or activity, but unassigned at the time of the inventory update.

060 ALTERATION or CONVERSION AREA (under remodel)
        Spaces temporarily out of use because they are being altered, remodeled, or rehabilitated at the time of the inventory update.

070 UNFINISHED (to be completed)
        All potentially assignable areas in new buildings, shell space, or additions to existing buildings not completely finished at the time of the inventory update.

NOTE: All spaces assigned to room types 090A thru 090U are referred to as General Building Space.

090A GENERAL BUILDING HALLWAY
        Public hallways, vestibules, and lobbies.

090B GENERAL BUILDING TOILET ROOM
        Any general use (public) toilet or rest room.

090C GENERAL BUILDING MECHANICAL SPACE
        Mechanical areas such as boiler rooms, mechanical and electrical equipment rooms, fuel rooms, meter closets, compressors, inside cooling towers, elevator machinery, and electrical cabinets.

090D CUSTODIAL SUPPLY CLOSET/JANITOR ROOM
        A custodial supply closet is a small area or closet that houses limited quantities of custodial supplies for daily use by custodial staff.  A janitor room is a space dedicated for use by janitorial staff.  It may include a clothes changing area, clothes locker, shower facility, a small eating and relaxing space, a desk for completing paperwork, a sink room for wet mop activities, or a temporary trash collection area for nonhazardous waste materials. Similar areas in health care facilities for both types of rooms should be coded as Treatment/Examination Clinic Service (855).

090E SHIPPING AND RECEIVING DOCK
        Covered docks

090F UNUSABLE
        Space that is less than 6'6" in ceiling height; for example, damp cellars or crawlspaces.

090G ELEVATOR
        Inventory shown on lowest level only.

090L LACTATION ROOM

090M MEN'S RESTROOM

090P PARKING CIRCULATION

090S STAIRWELL/STAIRS/STAIRWAY

090T TELECOMMUNICATIONS CLOSET
        Small closet areas housing telecommunications equipment and wiring that are not used by technical or support staff on a regular basis (i.e., repair or modification only).

090U POWER PLANT MECHANICAL ROOM
        Houses large mechanical operations for the central power plant.

090W WOMEN'S RESTROOM

090X UNISEX RESTROOM

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Classrooms (which appear in the Schedule of Classes)

 110A LECTURE HALL
        A large teaching room for regularly-scheduled classes with over 110 seats; usually has a stepped or sloped floor.

110B GENERAL CLASSROOM
        A general purpose, regularly-scheduled, instructional room designed primarily for use by any discipline. These rooms usually have no special equipment, have a flat floor, and seat less than 110. General classrooms are usually scheduled through the Registrar's Office.

110C SEMINAR ROOM
        A room equipped with a large table and chairs used for regularly-scheduled, small discussion type classes, and often assigned to a department.

110D DISTANCE EDUCATION TEACHING ROOM
        A regularly-scheduled instructional room equipped with distance education media. This instruction is to be delivered electronically (for example, interactive television). Typically, this type of classroom is scheduled by the Registrar's Office.

115 CLASSROOM SERVICE
        A service room for a classroom, lecture room or seminar room, such as a projection booth, coat room or storage.

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Instructional Laboratory

 210 CLASS LABORATORY
        A space used primarily for formally or regularly-scheduled instruction that requires special purpose equipment or a specific space configuration for student participation, experimentation, observation, or practice in an academic discipline.  Includes teaching labs and computer classrooms used for scheduled classes.

215 CLASS LABORATORY SERVICE
        Any space that directly serves a class laboratory.  Includes projection rooms, telecommunications control booths, coat rooms, preparation rooms, closets, material storage (including temporary hazardous materials storage), balance rooms, cold rooms, stock rooms, dark rooms, equipment issue rooms, etc. if they serve class laboratories.

220 OPEN LABORATORY (SPECIAL GROUP)
        A room used primarily for informally, irregularly, or unscheduled classes that requires special-purpose equipment for student participation, experimentation, observation, or practice in a field of study. Music practice rooms, B.F.A. or M.F.A. studios and dedicated (but unscheduled) computing clusters which are discipline-specific are typical examples. Public computing clusters which are NOT restricted to a specific discipline (by software or contained equipment) are often misclassified here, however those must be classified as study facilities (410A).

220B OPEN LABORATORY (INDIVIDUAL STUDY)
        A room used by students for individual music practice or study of art.  Also includes rooms for collection materials for study rather than exhibition, which are owned by a department or school. This includes films, files, tapes, archives or specimen materials. For example, arrowheads, pottery, crystals, mineral rocks, fossils, etc. Space containing departmental BOOK COLLECTIONS are NOT INCLUDED in this category, and should be classified under STUDY  FACILITIES (430).

225 OPEN LABORATORY SERVICE
        A space that directly serves one or more open laboratory (special group or individual study) rooms as an extension of the activities in those spaces, including projection rooms, telecommunications control booths, coat rooms, preparation rooms, closets, material storage (including temporary hazardous materials storage), balance rooms, cold rooms, stock rooms, dark rooms, equipment issue rooms, and similar facilities if they serve open laboratories.

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Research/Nonclass Laboratory

 250 RESEARCH/NONCLASS LABORATORY (SCIENCE AND CREATIVE ARTS)
        A space used for laboratory experimentation, research, or training  in research methods; professional research and observation; or structured creative activity within a specific program or for sponsored research (whether sponsored with federal, state, private, or institutional funds).

255 RESEARCH/NONCLASS LABORATORY SERVICE
        A space that directly serves one or more research/nonclass laboratories as an extension of the activities in those spaces.  Included are projection rooms, telecommunications control booths, coat rooms, preparation rooms, closets, material storage, balance rooms, cold rooms, stock rooms, dark rooms, equipment issue rooms, temporary hazardous materials storage areas, and similar facilities, if they serve research/nonclass laboratories.

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Office Areas

 310A FACULTY OFFICE
        Assigned to a professor, special professorship, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, or visiting lecturer.

310C JUNIOR FACULTY OFFICE
        Assigned to a faculty assistant, graduate assistant, student counselor, academic intern, student academic, research assistant, or associate instructor.

310D ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL OFFICE
        Assigned to one of the following positions: Dean, Associate Dean, Assistant Dean, Chairman, Director, acting status of any of the aforementioned, Teacher, Research Associate, Senior Research Associate, Senior Scientist/Scholar, Associate Scientist/Scholar, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Health Center Physician, Resident/Intern, or Nurse.

310E ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONAL OFFICE
        Assigned to the president, vice president, assistant vice president, chancellor, vice chancellor, or any of the following: PA, PB, PC, SA, SB, or SC.

310G SUPPORT STAFF
        Assigned to a support staff (SS employee rank code); also includes machines, files and waiting space in the same room (no need to prorate).

310H OFFICE-OTHER
        An office that does not fit in any of the other categories.

310R RESEARCH OFFICE

310Z EMERITUS OFFICE
        Assigned to an emeritus faculty member.

315 OFFICE SERVICE
        Includes file rooms, break rooms, kitchenettes serving office areas, copy and fax rooms, vaults, closets, records rooms, office supply rooms, first aid rooms serving office areas, student counseling and testing (assessment, nonhealth, non-discipline related) rooms, and open and private (restricted/nonpublic) circulation areas. Waiting, interview, and testing spaces are included if they serve a specific office or office area and not a classroom lab or clinic.

315T PRIVATE TOILET
        A toilet room attached to a private office or suite which does not serve the general public.

350 OFFICE CONFERENCE ROOMS
        A space serving an office complex and used primarily for staff meetings and departmental activities. It is typically equipped with tables and chairs, and is 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.

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Study Areas

 410A STUDY ROOM (INCLUDES COMPUTER CLUSTERS)
        A room for study could include study stations, computers, microfilm equipment, or typewriters. The room could be with or without shelves around the wall, but excludes the extended collection areas. This does include computer clusters which are NOT restricted to a particular discipline by software or contained equipment. Computer clusters which are informally  scheduled and restricted to a specific discipline MUST be coded 220 Open Laboratory.

410B NON-STUDENT STUDY ROOM
        Equipped with library tables and chairs and/or lounge chairs which are reserved for quiet rooms for the primary purpose of study; for example faculty studies.

410C CARRELS
        Individual study station within or adjoining the Library stacks (might need to be prorated between 420/430 and 410C).

420 STACK/COLLECTION
        A space used to house arranged collections of educational materials for use as a study resource.  They typically appear in central, branch, or departmental libraries. A collection can include books, periodicals, journals, monographs, micromaterials, electronic storage media, musical scores, maps, and other educational materials.

430 OPEN-STACK/STUDY ROOM
        A combination study space and stack, generally without physical boundaries between the stack and study areas. Seating areas include those types of station and seating arrangements described under 410A Study Room.  The stack areas of any of these spaces may include any of the educational material collections described under 420 Stack.

440 LIBRARY PROCESSING ROOM
        A room or area devoted to processes and operations in support of library functions.  Included are card and microfiche areas, reference desk and circulation desk areas, bookbinding rooms, multimedia materials processing areas, interlibrary loan processing areas, and other areas with a specific process or operation in support of library functions.

455 STUDY SERVICE
        Directly serves any or all of the study facilities listed above as a direct extension of activities in those rooms. Be careful not to include 440-Library Processing in this category.

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Special Use Areas

510 ARMORY (MILITARY SUPPORT)
        A room or area used by Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) and ancillary units for  military training and/or instructional activities.

515 ARMORY  SERVICE
        Directly serves an armory as an extension of the activities in that facility. Includes supply rooms, weapons rooms, and military equipment storage rooms.

520A ATHLETIC OR PHYSICAL EDUCATION (GYMNASIUM/BASKETBALL COURT)
        A room or area used by students, staff, or the public for athletic or physical education activities.  Includes gymnasia, basketball courts, wrestling rooms, weight or exercise rooms,  indoor putting areas, indoor ice rinks, indoor stadium fields and indoor tracks, and field houses, but excluding spectator seating and service areas.

520B DANCE STUDIO
        Dedicated to dance instruction, equipped with long wall mirrors and work bars.

520C LOCKER ROOM (Athletic or Physical Education)
        Locker rooms serving athletic, physical education, or recreational sports facilities.

520D SWIMMING POOL
        Under roof

520F RACQUETBALL/HANDBALL/SQUASH COURT
        Indoor

520G TENNIS COURT
        Indoor

523 ATHLETIC & PHYSICAL EDUCATION SPECTATOR SEATING
        The covered seating area used by students, staff or the public to watch athletic events.

525 ATHLETIC & PHYSICAL EDUCATION SERVICE (for any/all 520s)
        A space that directly serves an athletic or physical education facility as an extension of the activities in that facility.

530 MEDIA PRODUCTION
        A non-instructional room or group of rooms dedicated to the production of multimedia materials or signals. Includes spaces generally called TV studios, radio stations, sound studios, photo studios, video or audio cassette and software production or distribution rooms, and media centers.  A studio used for instruction to train students in communication techniques should be classified as 210 or 220.

535 MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION SERVICE
        A space that directly serves a media production or distribution space as an extension of the activities in that facility.

540 TEACHING CLINIC (part of curriculum)
        A space used for providing diagnosis, consultation, treatment, or other services to patients or clients of subjects with a primary purpose of instruction, research, or public service.  Included are examination rooms, testing rooms, consultation rooms, and holding areas.  Such spaces and their related uses are typically associated with educational programs such as psychology, law, speech, and hearing, These do NOT include clinics categorized as medical, dental, student health center or counseling (see 800s for Health Care Facilities).

545 TEACHING CLINIC SERVICE
        A space that directly serves a teaching clinic as an extension of the activities in that facility; for example, an observation room.

550 DEMONSTRATION SCHOOL (part of curriculum)
        A room or group of spaces used to practice, within an instructional program, the principles of certain disciplines such as teaching, child care or development, and family and consumer science. For example, laboratory schools or preschool nurseries IF the area SUPPORTS THE  TRAINING OF COLLEGE LEVEL STUDENTS.

555 DEMONSTRATION SERVICE
        A space that directly serves a demonstration facility as an extension of the activities in that facility.

560 FIELD BUILDING-FARM TYPE
        A barn or similar agricultural structure used for animal shelters or the handling, storage, or protection of farm products, supplies, vehicles, or implements.

570 ANIMAL FACILITIES
        A space that houses laboratory animals used for research and/or instructional purposes. Includes animal rooms, cage rooms, stalls, wards, and procedure, operating, recovery, isolation, quarantine, and similar spaces for instruction and research.  DOES NOT INCLUDE areas that directly serve facilities used for the treatment of animals (see Treatment/Examination Clinic 850).

575 ANIMAL FACILTIES SERVICE
        A space that directly serves an animal quarters facility as an extension of the activities in that facility.

580 GREENHOUSE
        A building or space, usually composed chiefly of glass, plastic, or other light-transmitting material, that is used for the cultivation or protection of plants or seedlings for research, instruction, or campus physical maintenance or improvement purposes.

585 GREENHOUSE SERVICE
        Directly serves a greenhouse facility as an extension of the activities of that facility.

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General Use Areas

610A AUDITORIUM
        A room possessing a stage equipped for full-scale dramatic or musical presentations. Includes seating and orchestra pit. Does NOT INCLUDE STAGE AREA (see 610B) or rooms intended primarily for ATHLETICS or PHYSICAL EDUCATION (see 610C).

610B STAGE
        A stage equipped with fire curtain, battens, stage curtains and stage lighting.

610C ASSEMBLY
        Used for the assembling of large numbers of persons for events such as athletics, musicals or commencement. Does NOT INCLUDE AUDITORIUMS or THEATERS (610A).

610D CHAPEL
        Areas used for devotional activities.

615A AUDITORIUM SERVICES
        Any room which is an integral part of an auditorium and does not fall in some other category. Includes projection rooms, green rooms, ticket booths, checker rooms, lounges, and lobbies that directly serve the auditorium.

615B STAGE SERVICE
        Any room which is an integral part of the operation of a stage, such as dressing rooms, scene shop, scene storage, prop rooms, costume rooms, orchestra assembly rooms and trap rooms.

615C ASSEMBLY SERVICE
        Service rooms to those classified as assembly, such as coat rooms, ticket booths, dressing, projection rooms, and control rooms.

620 EXHIBITION AREAS FOR MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY (non-CLASS)
        A room or areas used for exhibition of materials, works of art, artifacts, etc. and intended for general use by faculty, students, staff, and the public. Includes both departmental and institution-wide museums, galleries, and similar exhibition areas that are used to display materials and items for viewing by the institutional population and the public. Also includes areas of public circulation or lobby type space that includes permanently fixed cases for exhibition of artifacts (should be labeled and prorated accordingly -contact Space Information staff for help with this). Does NOT INCLUDE small collections which are available for study purposes, which classify as Departmental Study Collections (220B).

625 MUSEUM/ART GALLERY SERVICE
        Storage and work areas for housing, preparing, packing and unpacking  materials primarily for exhibition.  Areas for displays that are part of an instructional program, such as physical anthropology, geology, botany, microbiology, etc. shall be classified as Teaching Laboratory Service (215) or Research Laboratory Service (255).

630 FOOD FACILITY
        A space used for eating, including dining halls, cafeterias, snack bars, restaurants, and similar eating areas, including such areas in residence halls, faculty clubs, etc. This category  includes facilities open to students, faculty, staff, or the public at large. Vending areas with seating, counters, or tables and sit-down lunch or vending spaces that serve a shop facility are included in this category.  Vending areas not provided with seating, counters, or tables are classified as Merchandising (660).

635 FOOD FACILITIES SERVICE
        Directly serves a food facility as an extension of the activities in that facility.

640 INSTITUTIONAL DAY CARE
        (Not part of curriculum) A space used to provide day or night, child or elderly adult care as a nonmedical service to members of the institutional community.

645 INSTITUTIONAL DAY CARE SERVICE
        A space that directly serves a primary activity space in a day care facility as an extension of the activities in that space.  Includes storage rooms, closets, kitchens or food preparation areas, pantries, private or staff-only eating areas and restrooms, and other typical service spaces that support a primary activity area.

650A STUDENT LOUNGE
        A lounge area for students; may include vending machines.

650B FACULTY LOUNGE
        A lounge area for faculty; may include vending machines.

650C STAFF LOUNGE
        A lounge area for staff; may include vending machines.

650D PUBLIC LOUNGE
        A lounge area for the public typically equipped with soft seating, draperies, and/or carpeting; may include vending machines.

655 LOUNGE SERVICE
        A space that directly serves a general use lounge facility.

660 MERCHANDISING, VENDING, BOOKSTORE, etc.
        A space used to sell products or services. Includes bookstores, student supply stores, barber or beauty shops, post offices, campus food stores, walk-away vending machine spaces, and central ticket outlets serving multiple facilities or activities. DOES NOT INCLUDE RESTAURANTS (630).

665 MERCHANDISING SERVICE
        A space that directly serves a merchandising facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. Includes storage rooms and closets, sorting rooms, private rest rooms, and other support spaces if they directly serve a Merchandising (660) facility.

670 RECREATION
        A space used by students, staff, or the public for recreational purposes. Includes exercise and general fitness rooms, billiards rooms, game and arcade rooms, bowling alleys, table tennis rooms, dance or ballrooms, chess rooms, card playing rooms, hobby rooms, TV rooms, reading rooms, and music listening rooms that are used for recreation and amusement (not for  instructional purposes).

675 RECREATION ROOM SERVICE
        A space that directly serves a recreation facility as an extension of the activities in that facility.

680 NONCLASS/PUBLIC MEETING ROOM
        A room that is used by the institution or the public for a variety of nonclass meetings. The key concept is public availability. Open to study groups, boards, governing groups, community groups, various student groups, nonemployees of the institution, and various combinations of institutional and community members. Includes meeting spaces in institutional hotels and other for-fee meeting spaces. Conference rooms (350) are often confused with meeting rooms because they are both primarily used for nonclass meetings.

685 NONCLASS/PUBLIC MEETING ROOM SERVICE
        A space that serves a meeting space as an extension of the activities in that room. Includes kitchenettes, multimedia storage and control rooms, furniture storage rooms, and other support spaces that directly serve a meeting space.

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Supporting Areas

710 CENTRAL COMPUTER or TELECOMMUNICATION
        A space used as a data 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, department, college, school, or entire institution. These spaces appear most frequently at the campus-wide or large organizational unit levels and are generally subject to environmental and security controls and procedures.  Does not include office space assigned to programmers, analysts, engineers, data entry personnel, and other technical staff, even though those spaces usually contain an access terminal.

715 CENTRAL COMPUTER or TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE
        A space that directly serves a central computer or telecommunications facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. Includes paper and forms storage, 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 includes the repair and assembly rooms that directly serve the central computer or telecommunications facility.

720 CENTRAL SHOP
        A space used for the manufacture, repair, or maintenance of products or equipment.  Includes carpenter, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, and painting shops, and similar physical plant maintenance facilities. This category also includes centralized shops for construction or repair of research or instructional equipment, and repair and maintenance of multimedia equipment and devices. Special purpose shops (e.g., glass blowing, machining) supporting multiple spaces for scientific instruction and research are included in this category.

725 CENTRAL SHOP SERVICE
        A space that directly serves a shop facility as an extension of the activities in that facility.  Included are tool storage rooms, materials storage rooms, and similar equipment or material supply or storage rooms. Locker, shower, first aid, and similar non-public areas that serve the shop facility should be included.

730 CENTRAL WAREHOUSING/GENERAL BUILDING STORAGE
        A space or building that is used to store equipment or materials and that serves multiple space use categories, organizational units, or buildings. Includes areas commonly called  warehouses, surplus storage, central campus supply or storage and inactive storage. Collective building storage is included (e.g., a basement used for storage by all building occupants).

735 CENTRAL STORAGE SERVICE
        A space that directly serves a central storage facility as an extension of the activities in that facility.  Typically limited to support rooms associated with the transporting of materials in and out of large central storage facilities and warehouses.  Includes storage spaces for hand trucks and other moving equipment, shelving storage, and other spaces supporting the central storage function.

740 VEHICLE STORAGE FACILITY
        A space or structure that is used to house or store vehicles. Includes structures, buildings, and spaces generally called parking decks, garages, boathouses, and airplane hangars. It does NOT INCLUDE structures that house or store farm vehicles or implements. The definition of vehicle includes forklifts, moving equipment, lawn equipment, and other powered transport devices or equipment, as well as automobiles and trucks.

745 VEHICLE STORAGE SERVICE
        A space that directly serves a vehicle storage facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. Includes storage rooms and areas used for maintenance and repair of automotive equipment, boats, airplanes, and other vehicles as defined in Vehicle Storage 740. Also includes bus garages and motor pools.

750 CAMPUS CENTRAL SERVICE
        A room or area that is used for the processing, preparation, testing, or delivery of a complex-central or campus-wide support service. Includes central facilities for printing and duplicating services, central mail facilities, central shipping and receiving areas, campus security and police, and central environmental testing or monitoring facilities, if they serve the occupants and activities of more than one building.

755 CAMPUS CENTRAL SERVICE SUPPORT
        A space that directly serves a central service facility as an extension of the activities in that facility. They are typically limited to extension storage rooms for supplies, parts, and moving or nonactive equipment, and adjacent, directly supporting repair and maintenance areas.

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. These materials are "new" in nature, in that they had been acquired for specific planned use and are not remnants or "leftovers" from other work activities.  Does NOT include centralized storage of hazardous waste materials (see Hazardous Waste Storage 770); small satellite storage areas located near or adjacent to instructional, research, or process facilities; or a dedicated Unit Storage (see codes 215, 225, 255, 770, 775, 780).

770 HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE
        A centralized storage facility used for the treatment and/or disposal of hazardous or toxic waste materials as defined, classified, and controlled under government environmental regulations. This includes facilities specifically devoted to the storage, treatment, and/or disposal of toxic or hazardous waste. Hazardous or toxic waste materials are those materials remaining in excess from any particular process or procedure and so represent waste, the disposal of which is regulated by governmental environmental regulations.  Does NOT include centralized storage of hazardous materials (see Hazardous Materials Storage 760); small area satellite storage areas located around the institution, satellite accumulation areas located near or adjacent to instructional, research, or process facilities; or dedicated Unit Storage (see codes 215, 225, 255, 760, 775, 780).

775 HAZARDOUS WASTE SERVICE
        Small storage areas distributed throughout the institution used for temporary storage of hazardous or toxic waste materials as defined, classified, and controlled under government environmental regulations.

780 UNIT STORAGE
        A dedicated storage area or location under the direct control and management of a specific institutional division, department, office, business unit, or similar organizational unit.  They are typically remote from the controlling unit's work space and under its direct control and management for the purpose of storing materials and equipment related to and in support of the unit's particular program and activities.

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Health/Dental Care Areas

 810 PATIENT BEDROOM
        A room equipped with one or more beds and used for patient care,

815 PATIENT BEDROOM SERVICE
        A room that directly serves one or more patient bedrooms as an extension of the activities in those spaces.  Included are linen closets, patient lounges, children's play rooms, and any other service areas that are used primarily by patients rather than staff.

820 PATIENT BATH
        A room containing patient bath and toilet facilities.

830 NURSE STATION
        A room or area used by nurses or other patient care staff who are supervising or administering health care services.

835 NURSE STATION SERVICE
        A space that directly serves one or more nurse station spaces as an extension of the activities in those spaces.

840 SURGERY ROOM
        A room used for surgery, including major and minor surgery rooms, delivery rooms, and special procedure operating rooms.

845 SURGERY SERVICE
        A space that directly serves a surgery room as an extension of the activities in that facility.  Included are recovery rooms, labor rooms, special support equipment rooms (e.g., anesthesia, heart, lung, x-ray, etc.), dictation booths, scrub-up rooms, gown rooms, locker rooms, instrument clean-up and storage rooms, sterile supply storage rooms, patient (surgery prep) cleaning rooms, monitor rooms, gas and gurney storage areas, postoperative and operating room repair rooms, and clean and dirty utility areas, if these spaces directly serve the surgery facility.

850A TREATMENT/EXAMINATION ROOM (radiology, dialysis)
        A space used for examination, diagnosis, consultation, or treatment. Includes rooms used for radiology, flouroscopy, angiography, dialysis, body (e.g., CAT, MRI, ultrasound) scanning, cardiac catheterization, dental examination, treatment, speech, hearing, and other similar activities.  Also includes combined doctor's office and treatment/examination clinic rooms.

850B PATIENT REHABILITATION/THERAPY
        Any special purpose room used to help patients overcome disabilities resulting from surgery or illness.

850C OUTPATIENT CLINIC ROOM
        Examination and treatment of outpatients.

855 TREATMENT/EXAMINATION CLINIC SERVICE
        A space that directly serves an 850A, 850B, or 850C room as an extension of the activities in those spaces.  Included are dressing rooms, x-ray and film reading or viewing rooms, film processing rooms, dark rooms, work preparation areas, equipment and supply storage areas, soundproof rooms, patient dressing rooms, and clean and dirty utility rooms, if these areas directly serve the primary activity treatment/examination clinic facility.

860 DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE LABORATORY
        A space used to provide diagnostic support services to an entire health care facility. Includes pathology, pharmacy, autopsy, isotope rooms or labs, etc., providing such services as hematology, chemistry tissue, bacteriology, serology, blood bank, and basal metabolism. If the presence of a patient exists, please use one of the 850 room types.

865 DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE LABORATORY SUPPORT
        A space that directly serves a diagnostic service laboratory as an extension of the activities in that facility. Included are cadaver storage rooms, morgues, autoclave and centrifuge rooms, warm and cold rooms, lockers, scrub-up and gown rooms, special processing rooms, and supply and storage areas that directly serve one or more diagnostic service laboratories.

870A PHARMACY SUPPLIES/STORAGE
        Storage area for general pharmacy supplies.

870B CENTRAL HEALTH CARE SUPPLY ROOM (non-pharmacy)
        Storage for general supplies for health care facilities.

880 PUBLIC WAITING
        A space used by the public to await admission, treatment, or information within a health care facility. Included are lobby areas specifically configured and furnished for public waiting; physical or phantom boundaries should be assigned as needed to define non-assignable circulation functions of the areas.

890 STAFF ON-CALL FACILITY
        A room or quarters used by health care staff to rest or sleep while on call to assigned duties within a health care facility. Includes areas or rooms used by doctors, nurses, emergency medical technicians, night care crews, etc.

895 STAFF ON-CALL FACILITY SERVICE
        A space that directly serves as a staff on-call room as an extension of the activities in that facility.  Includes kitchens, baths, laundry rooms, lounges, closets, storage rooms, and other service areas that directly serve the on-call quarters.

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Residential Areas

910A UNDERGRADUATE SLEEP/STUDY, NO BATH
        A residential room for one or more undergraduate students, typically furnished with beds, wardrobes, closets, desks, and chairs, without an internally connected bath or toilet.

910B GRADUATE SLEEP/STUDY, NO BATH
        Any room assigned to graduate students as sleeping quarters without an internally connected bath or toilet.

919 DORMITORY BATHROOM
        A toilet or bathroom (including showers) intended only for the occupants of the residential facilities, rather than for the public.

920A UNDERGRADUATE SLEEP/STUDY, WITH BATH
        A residential room for one or more undergraduates, typically furnished with beds, wardrobes, closets, desks, and chairs, with an internally connected bath or toilet.

920B GRADUATE SLEEP/STUDY, WITH BATH
        A residential room for one or more graduates, typically furnished with beds, wardrobes, closets, desks, and chairs, with an internally connected bath or toilet.

920C HOTEL LODGING
        A customer's sleeping room.

935A SLEEP/STUDY SERVICE
        A room that directly serves the occupants of sleep/study rooms. Includes mail rooms, laundry and pressing rooms, linen closets, housekeeping rooms, serving rooms, trunk storage rooms, and telephone rooms that serve the occupants of sleep/study facilities.

935B HOTEL SERVICE
        Directly serves Hotel Lodging (e.g., linen closet).

950A APARTMENT
        A complete living unit, with private cooking facilities, that is not a separate structure. It contains bedrooms, living rooms, kitchen, and restroom facilities.

955 APARTMENT SERVICE
        A room or area that directly serves an apartment or group of apartments as an extension of the activities in that facility.

970 HOUSE
        A complete living unit, with private cooking facilities, that is a separate structure. Includes fraternities and sorority houses only if owned or controlled by the institution.

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