Room Use Codes & Definitions

Definition: A room or area that is used for the processing, preparation, testing, or delivery of acomplex-central or campus-wide support service.Description: The central service delivery may be provided by special equipment, humanactivity, the special availability of space, or any combination of these elements. Includescentralized food stores and laundries which typically serve the occupants or activities of morethan one building. Also includes central facilities for printing and duplicating services, centralmail facilities, central shipping and receiving areas, and central environmental testing ormonitoring facilities, if they serve the occupants and activities of more than one building.Institutions may wish to differentiate individual central services through the use of additionalcodes in this series. Most of these centralized areas have a campus-wide service scope.Limitations: Does not include those rooms providing the above listed functions if they supportother primary activity rooms in the same building. For example, a food storage area in acafeteria should be coded 635; a laundry room in a residence hall should be coded 935; a copyor mail room in an office area is coded 315. Media Production (530) or distribution facilitiesand computer-based data processing and telecommunications equipment centers (see 710) arecoded separately. Facilities used for the manufacture, repair or maintenance of products orequipment should be coded Shop (720). Central Storage (730) or supply facilities and VehicleStorage (740) facilities also have separate codes.755 Central Service SupportDefinition: A room that directly serves a central service facility as an extension of the activitiesin that facility.Description: Central Service Support rooms are typically limited to extension storage roomsfor supplies, parts, and moving or nonactive equipment; and adjacent, directly supporting repairand maintenance areas.Limitations: Offices within a central service area or complex should be coded Office (310).Centralized physical plant repair and maintenance facilities that do not directly support aCentral Service (750) facility should be coded Shop (720).74 CHAPTER 5