Space Management Facts
What is Space Management
Facilities and Planning maintains comprehensive facilities space data, space reporting, analysis and facility data information for Eastern Washington University. Space management data resources include: CAD drawings, floor plans, mapping, room capacity data, fire life safety data and space utilization information.
Our ongoing mission is to maintain accurate space data and make that data available to the university community as a resource to inform facilities decisions and provide support to implement projects and initiatives.
Space is a University Resource
Space is a key university asset owned by the Eastern Washington University. Physical space is not permanently allocated to occupants or users, nor is it ‘owned’ by those occupants or users. All University personnel are charged with ensuring the best use of space. University space resources should be utilized in the most efficient and effective manner to best serve programmatic and strategic priorities of the university.
Exemption from following the SPAC processes
All campus facilities, including leased facilities, are subject to this process except:
- Space and facilities reserved for auxiliaries, such as housing, the Pence Union Building, and the University Recreation Center;
- Space utilized for Early Head Start programs;
- Space rented from Washington State University or Bellevue College; and,
- Construction of a new building, which has a separate process for determining space utilization.
Space Inventory Classification
Eastern Washington University uses the Post secondary Education Facilities Inventory and Classification Manual (FICM) codification system. All space functional use categories and space inventory codification will conform to these nationally accepted conventions.
More information can be found at the NCES website:
FICM Information:
