| (32) Gift--A donation or bequest of money or another
tangible item, a pledge of a contribution, or the acquisition of real
property or facilities at no cost to the state or to the institution.
It may also represent a method of finance for a project.
(33) Gross Square Feet (GSF)--The sum of all square
feet of floor areas within the outside faces of a building's exterior
walls. This includes the areas, finished and unfinished, on all floors
of an enclosed structure, i.e., within the environmentally controlled
envelope, for all stories or areas which have floor surfaces.
(34) Improved Real Property--Real property on which
there are buildings or facilities.
(35) Information Resource Project--Projects related
to the purchase or lease-purchase of computer equipment, purchase
of computer software, purchase or lease-purchase of telephones, telephone
systems, and other telecommunications and video-teleconferencing equipment.
(36) Infrastructure--The basic physical structures
needed for the operation of a campus to include roads, water supply,
sewers, power grids, telecommunications, and so forth. Systems within
five feet of a building are considered building systems and are not
infrastructure.
(37) Institution or institution of higher education--A
Texas public institution of higher education as defined in Texas Education
Code, §61.003(8), except a community/junior college.
(38) Legislative Authority--Specific statutory authorization.
(39) Lease--A contract by which real estate, equipment,
or facilities are conveyed for a specified term and for a specified
rent. Includes the transfer of the right to possession and use of
goods for a term in return for consideration. Unless the context clearly
indicates otherwise, the term includes a sublease.
(40) Lease-Purchase--A lease project that includes
the acquisition of real property by purchase, gift, or any other voluntary
transaction at some future time.
(41) Mixed Use--Facilities that have a mixture of uses.
These may include facilities that are E&G and non-E&G.
(42) Net Assignable Square Feet (NASF)--The sum of
all areas within the interior walls of rooms on all floors of a building
assigned to, or available for assignment to, an occupant or use, excluding
unassigned areas. NASF includes auxiliary space and E&G space.
(43) New Construction--The creation of a new building
or facility, the addition to an existing building or facility, or
new infrastructure that does not currently exist on campus. New construction
would add gross square footage to an institution's existing space.
(44) Parking Structure--A facility or garage used for
housing or storing vehicles. Included are garages, boathouses, airport
hangars, and similar buildings. Barns or similar field buildings that
house farm implements and surface parking lots are not included.
(45) Phased Project--A project that has more than one
part, each one having fixed beginning and ending dates, specified
cost estimates, and scope. Phased projects consider future phase needs
in the project plan; each phase is able to stand alone as an individual
project.
(46) Project--The process that includes the construction,
repair, renovation, addition, alteration of a campus, building, or
facility, or its infrastructure, or the acquisition of real property.
(47) Project Review--The process used by the Board
and Board staff to determine whether the project meets Board adopted
standards for cost, efficiency, space need and space use.
(48) Purchase--The acquisition of and interest in real
property in exchange for valuable consideration.
(49) Real Property--Land with or without improvements
such as buildings.
(50) Repair and Renovation (R&R)--Construction
upgrades to an existing building, facility, or infrastructure that
currently exists on campus; this includes the finish-out of shell
space. R&R may add E&G NASF space.
(51) Research Facility--A facility used primarily for
experimentation, investigation, or training in research methods, professional
research and observation, or a structured creative activity within
a specific program. Included are laboratories used for experiments
or testing in support of instructional, research, or public service
activities.
(52) Shell Space--An area within a building with an
unfinished interior designed to be converted into usable space at
a later date.
(53) Space Need--The result of the comparison of an
institution's actual space to the predicted need as calculated by
the Board's Space Projection Model.
(54) Space Use--The determination of the efficiency
of use in existing facilities as determined by institutional performance
on accepted measures.
(55) Standard--Basis, criteria, or benchmark used for
evaluating the merits of a project request or an institutional comparison
to a benchmark.
(56) Technical Research Building--Space used for research,
testing, and training in a mechanical or scientific field. Special
equipment is required for staff and/or student experimentation or
observation. Included are specialized laboratories for new technologies
that have stringent environmental controls on air quality, temperature,
vibration, and humidity. Facilities generally include space for specialized
technologies, semiconductors, biotechnology, advanced materials, quantum
computing and advanced manufacturing quantum computing technology,
nanoscale measurement tools, integrated microchip-level technologies
for measuring individual biological molecules, and experiments in
nanoscale disciplines.
(57) Tuition Revenue Bonds Project--A project for which
an institution has legislative authority to finance a construction
or land acquisition project as provided for in Texas Education Code, §§55.01
- 55.25.
(58) Unimproved Real Property--Real property on which
there are no buildings or facilities.
(59) University System--The association of one or more
public senior colleges or universities, medical or dental units, or
other agencies of higher education under the policy direction of a
single governing board.
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