Frederick Community College Facilities Master Plan Chapter 4 Needs Assessment 4-25 May 12, 2023 Utilization of Class Laboratories Class laboratories are defined as instructional spaces that are used primarily for formally or regularly scheduled classes that require special purpose equipment or a specific room configuration for student participation, experimentation, observation, or practice in an academic discipline. These rooms have a room use code of 210. Included in this classification are science labs, computer labs, art and music studios, architectural drafting rooms and distance learning classrooms. Although the inventory may include spaces such as preparation rooms, balance rooms, cold rooms, stock rooms, dark rooms, equipment issue rooms that directly support class laboratories (class laboratory service: code 215) in its total accounting of net assignable square feet, utilization addresses only the space used for actual instruction. As is the case with classrooms, application of generally recognized space planning guidelines addresses space associated with both class laboratory and class laboratory service activity. The class laboratory room use classifications do not include informally scheduled or unscheduled laboratories such as open laboratories (code 220) or research laboratories (code 250). They do not include gymnasia and pools (code 520), animal quarters (code 570), greenhouses (code 580) or theater/assembly facilities (code 610). The College’s facilities inventory identifies a total of 53 rooms classified as class laboratories. Of these, 34 were used for regularly scheduled credit courses between 8:00 am and 9:00 pm during the 2019 fall semester. Between the hours of 8:00 am and 5:00 pm 28 were used for regularly scheduled credit courses. These 28 lab spaces are the subject of this analysis of class laboratory utilization. Maryland’s targets for utilization of class laboratory space at Frederick Community College are 15 hours per week room use and 60% student station occupancy. Maryland’s guidelines assume 50 NASF average student station size for natural and social science labs and 115 NASF average student station size for technical and career labs. Guideline assumption is that 80% of lab contact hours are generated in natural and social sciences labs, and 20% in technical and career labs. This is the Maryland Higher Education Commission’s basis for measuring class laboratory utilization. Class Laboratory Utilization by Building (Day Only) Class Laboratories Scheduled Student Average % of Stations Average Weekly Building Rooms NASFa Stations NASF/Station Occupied Room Hours B Braddock Hall 1 805 26 31 66% 24 C Catoctin Hall 17 14,454 354 41 82% 17 E Conference Center 1 941 20 47 55% 12 F Visual & Performing Arts Center 6 5,760 97 59 81% 22 L Linganore Hall 2 1,883 35 54 70% 19 MC Monroe Center 1 1,552 18 86 54% 6 Totals 28 25,395 550 46 80% 18 Source: Compiled by Facilities Planning Associates and A.C. Robinson Enterprises aTotal of "scheduled" rooms
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