The following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

1. (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. (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. (3) Addition--Expansion or extension of an existing facility that increases its size or capacity.
4. (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. (5) Athletic Facilities--Facilities used for athletic programs, including intercollegiate athletics, intramural athletics, and athletically-oriented academic programs.
6. (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. (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. (8) Board or Coordinating Board--The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board members and the agency.
9. (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. (10) Campus Deferred Maintenance Plan (MP2)--A detailed report of institutional programs to address deferred maintenance and critical deferred maintenance.
11. (11) 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.
12. (12) Capital Renewal--Includes capital improvements and changes to a facility in response to evolving needs. The changes may occur because of new programs or to correct functional obsolescence. Capital renewal needs are not part of the deferred maintenance backlog.
13. (13) Certification--Institutional attestation of reports or other submissions as being true or as represented.
14. (14) 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.
15. (15) 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.
16. (16) 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.
17. (17) Committee on Campus Planning--The members of the Board appointed to consider facility-related issues.
18. (18) Commissioner--The chief executive officer of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
19. (19) Critical Deferred Maintenance--The physical conditions of a building or facility that places its occupants at risk of harm or the facility at risk of not fulfilling its functions.
20. (20) Deferred Maintenance--An existing or imminent building maintenance-related deficiency from prior years that needs to be corrected, or scheduled preventive maintenance tasks that were not performed because other tasks funded within the budget were perceived to have higher priority status. The accumulation of facility components in need of repair brought about by age, use, or damage for which remedies are postponed or considered backlogged. This may include those repairs postponed due to insufficient funding.
21. (21) Diagnostic Support Laboratory--the central diagnostic service area for a health care facility. Included are pathology laboratories, pharmacy laboratories, autopsy rooms, isotope rooms, etc., providing such services as hematology, tissue chemistry, bacteriology, serology, blood banks, and basal metabolism. In veterinary facilities, this includes necropsy rooms.
22. (22) Education and General (E&G)--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 is supported by state appropriations.
23. (23) Emergency--An unforeseen combination of circumstances that calls for immediate action and requires an urgent need for assistance or relief that, if not taken, would result in an unacceptable cost to the state; or, an urgent need for assistance or relief due to a natural disaster; or an unavoidable circumstance whereby the delay of the project approval would critically impair the institution's function.
24. (24) Eminent Domain--A legal process wherein the institution takes private property for public use.
25. (25) Energy Systems--Infrastructure in a building that includes facility electric, gas, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and water systems.
26. (26) 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.
27. (27) Facilities Audit--Comprehensive review of institutional facility development, planning activities, and reports.
28. (28) 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.
29. (29) Facilities Development Plan (MP1)--A detailed formulation of institutional programs to address deferred maintenance, critical deferred maintenance, facilities construction, demolition, property acquisitions, or physical plant development.
30. (30) Financing Directly Derived from Students--Funds resulting from the collection of fees or other charges to students, such as designated tuition, student activities fees, housing revenue, bookstore or student union revenue, etc. Bond proceeds for which one or more of these sources provides debt service shall also be considered financing directly derived from students.
31. (31) Financing Indirectly Derived from Students--Funds generated from funds accumulated from students, primarily interest on funds accumulated directly from students.
32. (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. (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. (34) Housing Facility--A single- or multi-family residence used exclusively for housing or boarding students, faculty, or staff members.
35. (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. (36) Intercollegiate Athletic Facility--Any facility used primarily to support intercollegiate athletics, including stadiums, arenas, multi-purpose centers, playing fields, locker rooms, coaches' offices, and similar facilities.
37. (37) Infrastructure--The underlying foundation or basic framework of a facility, including but not limited to, the utility distribution system of plumbing, heating/ventilation/air conditioning, electrical, sewage, drainage, architectural, safety and Code compliance, roads, grounds, and landscaping.
38. (38) 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.
39. (39) Legislative Authority--Specific statutory authorization.
40. (40) 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.
41. (41) Lease-Purchase--A lease project that includes the acquisition of real property by sale, mortgage, security interest, pledge, gift, or any other voluntary transaction at some future time.
42. (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. (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. (44) Non-student Sources--Funds generated from athletic department operations, gifts and grants, facility usage fees, related revenue, and appropriated funds.
45. (45) NCAA Football Bowl Championship Series--A program of the NCAA under which certain NCAA Division I-A football universities share proceeds of college bowl games.
46. (46) 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.
47. (47) Private Funding--Gifts, grants, or other funds to be used for facilities development projects that are provided by persons or entities other than the university or institution requesting consideration of the project.
48. (48) 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.
49. (49) Real Property--Land with or without improvements such as buildings.
50. (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. (51) Replacement Value--The value of an institution's overall campus facilities, as determined annually by the Board. The method of calculation is based upon recently approved Board project costs, with adjustments based upon room types and the institution's location within the state. Replacement values for public universities, the Lamar State Colleges, and the Texas State Technical Colleges are calculated only for E&G space. Replacement values for public health-related institutions are calculated for the NASF space. Replacement values are used to measure the validity of construction projects that are submitted to the Board for approval and are not recommended for insurance purposes.
52. (52) 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.
53. (53) Shell Space--An area within a building with an unfinished interior designed to be converted into usable space at a later date.
54. (54) 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.
55. (55) Standard--Basis, criteria, or benchmark used for evaluating the merits of a project request or an institutional comparison to a benchmark.
56. (56) Tracking Report--Institutional reports indicating the status of approved projects.
57. (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. (58) Unimproved Real Property--Real property on which there are no buildings or facilities.

Source Note:The provisions of this §17.3 adopted to be effective August 15, 2004, 29 TexReg 7675.