The following words and terms shall have the following meanings,
unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(1) Acquisition--To come into possession or control
of real property or facilities. This includes the acceptance, purchase,
lease-purchase, transfer, or exchange of land or facilities.
(2) Academic Facilities--Facilities used for primary
instruction, research, and public service functions of the institution.
Academic facilities typically would include classrooms, libraries,
administrative and faculty offices, and student and research laboratories.
(3) Addition--Expansion or extension of an existing
facility that increases its size or capacity.
(4) Assignable Area of a Building--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 space. This is also referred to as net assignable square
feet (NASF).
(5) Athletic Facilities--Facilities used for athletic
programs, including intercollegiate athletics, intramural athletics,
and athletically oriented academic programs.
(6) Auditorium or Assembly--A room, hall, or building
designed and equipped for the assembly of large groups for such events
as dramatic and musical productions, devotional activities, livestock
judging, faculty/staff meetings, or commencement. Included are theaters,
concert halls, arenas, chapels, and livestock judging pavilions. Assembly
facilities may also serve instructional purposes to a minor or incidental
extent.
(7) Auxiliary Enterprise Buildings or Space--Income-generating
structures and space such as dormitories, cafeterias, student union
buildings, stadiums, athletic facilities, housing or boarding facilities
used by a fraternity, sorority, or private club, and alumni centers
used solely for those purposes. Auxiliary space is not supported by
State appropriations.
(8) Board or Coordinating Board--The Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board members and the agency staff.
(9) Building--A structure with at least two walls for
permanent or temporary shelter of persons, animals (excluding animal
caging equipment), plants, materials, or equipment that is attached
to a foundation, roofed, serviced by a utility (exclusive of lighting),
is a source of maintenance and repair activities, and is under the
control or jurisdiction of the institution's governing board, regardless
of its location.
(10) Building Replacement Estimate Report--A report
that provides an overall estimate of the campus' buildings replacement
cost. The Board produces this report to aid institutions in reporting
their deferred maintenance needs as a percentage of the total campus'
replacement value.
(11) Educational and General (E&G) Building Replacement
Estimate--A comparative indicator of the relative condition of facilities
calculated by dividing the deferred maintenance backlog by the current
Building Replacement Estimate. This may be calculated for an individual
building, group of buildings, or an entire campus.
(12) Institution-Wide Building Replacement Estimate--The
institution-wide relative value of an institution's facilities, as
determined annually by the Board. The method of calculation is based
on approved Board project costs. Building Replacement Estimates are
calculated for Educational and General space and Institution-Wide
space. A 25 percent add-on is included to account for the cost of
necessary infrastructure. These are NOT to be used for insurance purposes.
(13) Campus Condition Report--A report outlining facility
maintenance needs in the areas of deferred maintenance and critical
deferred maintenance.
(14) Campus Master Plan--A detailed long-range plan
of institutional physical plant needs, including facilities construction
and/or development, land acquisitions, and campus facilities infrastructure;
the plan provides long-range and strategic analyses and facilities
development guidelines.
(15) Certification--Institutional attestation of reports
or other submissions as being true or as represented.
(16) Classroom--A room used for scheduled classes.
These rooms may be called lecture rooms, lecture-demonstration rooms,
seminar rooms, or general-purpose classrooms. A classroom may contain
multimedia or telecommunications equipment, such as those used for
distance learning. A classroom may be furnished with special equipment
(e.g., globes, maps, pianos) appropriate to a specific area of study.
A classroom does not include conference rooms, meeting rooms, auditoriums,
or class laboratories.
(17) Class Laboratory--A room used primarily by regularly
scheduled classes that require special-purpose equipment for student
participation, experimentation, observation, or practice in a field
of study. Class laboratories may be referred to as teaching laboratories,
instructional shops, computer laboratories, drafting rooms, band rooms,
choral rooms, group studios. Laboratories that serve as individual
or independent study rooms are not included.
(18) Clinical Facility--A facility often associated
with a hospital or medical school that is devoted to the diagnosis
and care of patients in the instruction of health professions and
allied health professions; medical instruction may be conducted, and
patients may be examined and discussed. Clinical facilities include,
but are not limited to, patient examination rooms, testing rooms,
and consultation rooms.
(19) Committee--The members of the Board appointed
to consider facility-related issues.
(20) Commissioner--The chief executive officer of the
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board agency.
(21) Cost--The portion of the total project costs that
are reported by the institution as being for the actual cost of construction,
repair/renovation, or the actual purchase price for improved real
property purchases. Not included are costs associated with site acquisition
(for construction projects), closing costs (for improved real property
purchases) fixed equipment, site development, furniture and moveable
equipment, construction services, life safety compliance, professional
services fees, demolition costs, eminent domain costs, environmental
development, or contingency amounts.
(22) Critical Deferred Maintenance--Any deferred maintenance
that if not corrected in the current budget cycle places its building
occupants at risk of harm or the facility at risk of not fulfilling
its functions.
(23) Deferred Maintenance--The accumulation of facility
components in need of repair or replacement brought about by age,
use, or damage, for which remedies are postponed or considered backlogged,
that is necessary to maintain and extend the life of a facility. This
includes repairs postponed due to funding limitations.
(24) Education and General (E&G) Space--Space used
for teaching, research, or the preservation of knowledge, including
the proportional share used for those activities in any building or
facility used jointly with auxiliary enterprise, or space that is
permanently unassigned. E&G space may be supported by state appropriations.
(25) E&G Cost--E&G Space/Total Space x Cost.
The costs associated with the E&G space included in a project.
This is determined by dividing the E&G assignable square feet
by the total project assignable square feet and then multiplying the
result by the cost.
(26) Efficiency--The proportion of the gross square
feet that can be assigned. This is determined by dividing the net
assignable square feet by the gross square feet.
(27) Energy Systems--Infrastructure in a building that
includes facility electric, gas, heating, ventilation, air conditioning,
and water systems.
(28) Energy Savings Performance Contract--A contract
for energy or water conservation measures to reduce energy or water
consumption or operating costs of institutional facilities in which
the estimated savings in utility costs resulting from the conservation
measures is guaranteed to offset the cost of the measures over a specified
period.
(29) Facilities Audit--Comprehensive review of institutional
facility development, planning activities, and reports.
(30) Facilities Inventory--A collection of building
and room records that reflects institutional space and how it is being
used. The records contain codes that are uniformly defined by the
Board and the United States Department of Education and reported by
the institutions on an ongoing basis to reflect a current facilities
inventory. The facilities inventory includes a record of property
owned by or under the control of the institution.
(31) Capital Expenditure Plan (MP1)--A detailed formulation
of institutional programs to address repairs, renovations, deferred
maintenance, critical deferred maintenance, facilities construction,
demolition, property acquisitions, or infrastructure.
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