- FICM Overview
- How to Use
- Table of Contents
- 1. Getting Started
- 2. Basic Database Principles and Applications
- 3. Building Area Measurement
- 4. Space Use Codes
- 4.1 Space Use Category Structure
- 4.2 Space Use Categories
- 4.2.1 Primary Use
- 4.2.2 Proration and Phantom Walls
- 4.2.3 Service Codes
- 4.2.4 Room Name
- 4.2.5 Determining Actual Use Prior to Coding
- 4.2.6 Local Options for Additional Codes
- 4.2.7 Some Space Use Characteristics Not to Be Used as Space Use Categories
- 4.3 Space Use Codes
- 4.4 Space Use Codes Questions and Answers
- 5. Data Analysis and Reporting
- 6. Emerging Issues
- 1. Getting Started
PDF & Related Info4.2.7 Some Space Use Characteristics Not to Be Used as Space Use Categories
Some space use characteristics that should not be used as space use categories are as follows:
- The designed architectural use of a space (e.g., a space designed as a laboratory but used as an office must be given the space use code of Office (310)).
- The identification of a campus organizational unit or division that either controls or is assigned a space (e.g., a “Physics” Laboratory, or a “Registrar” Classroom). Organizational identification concerning space assignment is recorded in another of the four required data elements about space.
- The rank of the space’s occupants (e.g., a “Professor’s” office or a “Secretary’s” Office). Again, occupant information may be recorded as optional data in a separate data structure.
- The function, Academic Discipline, special physical characteristics, degrees of space suitability, and other such data that do not specifically address the space use codes in this chapter.