Frederick Community College Facilities Master Plan Chapter 4 Needs Assessment 4-18 May 12, 2023 Methodology The College provided base data in the form of course enrollments and facilities room-by-room space inventory. The consultant team analyzed course enrollment data to define which classrooms and class laboratories were scheduled for use. This data was also used to determine instructional space use by day and time of day, average weekly room hour use, student station occupancy, and weekly student contact hours. The facilities space inventory provided sizes for each instructional space. Weekly room hours define the number of hours each classroom or class lab is used per week for regularly scheduled classes. Weekly student contact hours are the product of student course enrollment times the weekly room hours. Student station occupancy is the percentage of seats occupied when a room is used for a regularly scheduled course. It is determined by dividing the weekly student contact hours by the weekly student contact hour capacity. Student station size is an average resulting from the room size in net assignable square feet (NASF) divided by the number of student stations. Courses not scheduled for on-campus classrooms and class laboratories were not included in this analysis. Courses held off-site, independent study courses, online courses and courses not centrally scheduled by were excluded. Also eliminated were courses with incomplete data such as begin/end times and location. When warranted, classrooms and class laboratories that had no course enrollment may be included in tables and charts for accounting and information purposes only, but were not included in calculations or analyses. Expectations and inferences for instructional space utilization provided by the Maryland Higher Education Commission’s (MHEC) Space Allocation Guidelines for Community Colleges were used as benchmarks to compare FCC’s utilization of instructional spaces. Instructional Space Inventory Summary Fredrick Community College’s total inventory of net assignable square feet is summarized by building and room use classification in tables presented earlier. The following table provides an extraction of instructional space data for ready reference. Current Instructional Space Inventory (NASF) by Building A B C D E F H K L S MC FCC Room Use Annapolis Braddock Catoctin Athletics Conference Vis. & Perf. Student Mercer-Akre Linganore Sweadner Monroe Instruction Code Classification Hall Hall Hall Center Center Arts Center Center Kiln Hall Hall Center Totals 110 Classroom 880 10,125 5,098 502 4,260 7,885 15,815 0 5,265 1,826 5,525 57,181 210 Class Laboratory 0 805 19,112 0 4,114 10,011 0 897 6,685 0 16,046 57,670 Totals 880 10,930 24,210 502 8,374 17,896 15,815 897 11,950 1,826 21,571 114,851 Source: Frederick Community College Capital Planning and Project Management
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