Utilization of premises by building occupants. Can be used to describe a complex, building, or spaces within the building.
Data Type:
Constrained List
Category:
Unit of Measure:
None
Sector:
Commercial, Residential, Multifamily
Occupancy Classification
| List Options | Option Definition | Unit of Measure | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult education | None | ||
| Agricultural estate | Premises accommodating dairy farms, cattle ranch, and farms. | None | |
| Aquarium | None | ||
| Assembly | Indoor or outdoor premises operating a public or nonpublic event. | None | |
| Assembly arcade or casino without lodging | Premises that offers table games along with other activities, such as arcade games or slot machines. These establishments may provide food and beverage services, but exclude hotel lodging. | None | |
| Assembly convention center | Enclosed premises that are leased or rented, including auditoriums, banquet halls, flea market spaces, and conference centers. | None | |
| Assembly cultural entertainment | Cultural entertainment premises including museums, libraries, and galleries. | None | |
| Assembly religious | Religious public assembly premises including funeral parlors, churches, monasteries, synagogues, mosques, and temples. | None | |
| Assembly social entertainment | Social entertainment premises include movie theater, non-food-serving venues such as bars and nightclubs, and small social meeting halls such as lounges. | None | |
| Assembly stadium | Open or enclosed premises including arenas, stadiums, and race tracks, and performing arts theaters that are operating live events such as fairs, concerts, sporting events, concerts, trade shows, and festivals. | None | |
| Atrium | An atrium is a large open space located within a building, extending several stories high and having a glazed roof. | None | |
| Attic | A space located below the pitched roof of a residential house or other building. | None | |
| Auditorium | An auditorium is a large room that enables an audience to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres. | None | |
| Automobile dealership | None | ||
| Bank | Bank office premises that provide trust, fiduciary, and custody services to others including bank trust offices and escrow agencies. | None | |
| Bank branch | None | ||
| Banking financial services | None | ||
| Bar | A bar is a counter across which alcoholic drinks or refreshments are served, the bar premises include the bar itself, bar seating, and the back-bar where refreshments are prepared. | None | |
| Bar nightclub | None | ||
| Barracks | None | ||
| Basement | Finished, partially-finished, or unfinished. | None | |
| Bathroom | A bathroom is a room containing one, sometimes two toilet fixtures, and a bath and/or shower. | None | |
| Bowling alley | None | ||
| Casino | None | ||
| Central plant | A central plant is the energy center of a campus, producing and distributing primary utilities from the central location. | None | |
| Chemical storage room | Chemical storage rooms follow chemical storage guidelines to protect building occupants from exposure to chemicals and to maintain chemicals in proper storage conditions. | None | |
| Classroom | A classroom is a room for learning purposes in all types of educational institution premises including public and private schools, corporations, and religious and humanitarian organizations. | None | |
| College university | None | ||
| Common area | A common area is an area for use by more than one person, and often exist in apartments, gated communities, condominiums, cooperatives and shopping malls. | None | |
| Computer lab | A computer lab is for computer use and might have printers and scanners that are often located in premises such as libraries, schools, government buildings, laboratories, community centers, companies, and research centers. | None | |
| Conference room | A conference room is a room provided for an event such as a conference and meeting. They might exist at large hotels, arenas, convention centers, and hospitals. | None | |
| Convenience store | Convenience food store or food mart premises, excluding gas stations, that are sell a limited line of goods. | None | |
| Convenience store with gas station | None | ||
| Convenience store without gas station | None | ||
| Convention center | None | ||
| Corridor | A corridor is a long passage in a building from which doors lead into rooms. | None | |
| Courthouse | Court premises for public safety including civilian courts, courts of law, and sheriffs' offices conducting court functions only. | None | |
| Courtroom | A courtroom is a space where a judge holds court hearings. | None | |
| Courtyard | A courtyard is an unroofed area that is completely or mostly enclosed by the walls of a the surrounding structure. | None | |
| Dance floor | The dance floor is clear of all furniture so patrons may have room to dance or perform and is usually lit and conditioned differently than the rest of the space. | None | |
| Darkroom | A darkroom is an area that can be made dark for the processing of light-sensitive photographic materials including photographic film and photographic paper. | None | |
| Data center | A data center is a place that houses computer systems and backup power supply, data communication connections, environmental controls, and security devices such as telecommunications and storage systems. | None | |
| Day room | A day room, common room, or communal room is a shared lounge area for daytime recreation often in residence hall premises including universities, colleges, military bases, hospitals, rest homes, hostels, and even minimum-security prisons. It could be connected to private rooms and could include a bathroom. | None | |
| Deck | A deck is a structure of planks or plates, approximately horizontal, extending out from the exterior of the building and is open to the weather. | None | |
| Dining area | A dining room is a room in a residential house for consuming food. | None | |
| Distribution center | Distribution center | None | |
| Dressing area | A dressing area is a room or area designated for changing one's clothes in a semi-public situation including locker rooms, walk-in closets, changing rooms and dressing rooms in clothing retailers. | None | |
| Education | School premises for educational purposes. | None | |
| Education higher | Higher education premises including community college, junior college, university, vocational school, technical school, and professional school. | None | |
| Education preschool or daycare | Preschool education premises including preschool or daycare. Also includes schools for the physically disabled and parochial. | None | |
| Education primary | Primary education premises including primary school, elementary school, and kindergarten. Also includes schools for the handicapped, montessori, boarding, preparatory, private, and parochial. | None | |
| Education secondary | Secondary education premises including secondary school, junior high school, middle school, and high school. Also includes schools for the academic, technical, vocational, montessori, handicapped, boarding, preparatory, private, finishing, parochial and military. | None | |
| Enclosed mall | None | ||
| Energy generation plant | A premises with a facility designed to produce electric energy from another form of energy such as fossil fuel, geothermal, and solar. | None | |
| Energy power station | None | ||
| Entertainment public assembly | None | ||
| Fast food restaurant | None | ||
| Financial office | None | ||
| Fire station | None | ||
| Fitness center health club gym | None | ||
| Food sales | Premises that primarily sells food products and services but may sell other non-food items related to groceries. | None | |
| Food sales and service | None | ||
| Food sales grocery store | Supermarkets, grocery stores, gourmet food stores, and food super stores that sell a general line of food as well as general new merchandise. | None | |
| Food service | Any premises serving food. | None | |
| Food service fast | Fast food service premises including pizza delivery and take-out shops, take-out eating places, fast-food restaurants, and takeout sandwich shops. | None | |
| Food service full | Food service premises which include full waiter/waitress service including diner, family restaurant, fine dining, pizza parlor, pizzeria, dinner theater, and steakhouse. The order is taken while the patron is seated. Patrons pay after they consume their selections. | None | |
| Food service institutional | An establishment other than full-service or limited-service that serves food, either to the general public or to a select group of individuals. Includes hospitals, school cafeterias, and military kitchens. | None | |
| Food service limited | Establishments typically without waiter/waitress service in which patrons generally order or select items and pay before consuming. Food and drink may be consumed on premises, taken out, or delivered. Examples are: coffee shop, cafe, deli, bakery, bar, and pub. | None | |
| Gas station | Convenience food store and gas station premises that sells food mart items and automotive fuels. These establishments may provide automotive repair services. | None | |
| Health care | Premises that host heath care services for the maintenance and improvement of physical and mental health. | None | |
| Health care diagnostic center | A commercial Health care premises using diagnostic medical equipment serving as an outpatient diagnostic center. | None | |
| Health care inpatient hospital | A commercial Health care premises that provides temporary to long-term inpatient services including hospitals. | None | |
| Health care morgue or mortuary | Premises that is used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification, or removal for autopsy or disposal by burial, cremation or otherwise. | None | |
| Health care outpatient non diagnostic | Premises that include medical office, urgent care, and outpatient clinics. | None | |
| Health care outpatient rehabilitation | A commercial Health care premises providing outpatient rehabilitation and physical/occupational/speech/respiratory therapy services. | None | |
| Health care outpatient surgical | Premises that include ambulatory surgical center. | None | |
| Health care pharmacy | Health care premises where medication is prepared, dispensed and/or sold. | None | |
| Health care residential treatment center | A residential live-in Health care premises providing therapy for substance abuse, mental illness, or other behavioral problems. | None | |
| Health care skilled nursing facility | A commercial live-in premises for special care needs including senior care community and nursing home. | None | |
| Health care veterinary | Premises that provides services for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and health care of animal populations. Including dental services and laboratory testing services for animals. | None | |
| Hospital general medical and surgical | None | ||
| Hotel | None | ||
| Ice curling rink | None | ||
| Indoor arena | None | ||
| Industrial | Industrial premises including food processing, manufacturing, high tech, metal processing, and pulp and paper firms. Premises may have fixed pieces of equipment, buildings or complexes used to produce goods as part of any process or system such as voltage optimization, water and wastewater systems, transport processing or other activity involving farm products off-farm. | None | |
| Industrial manufacturing plant | A premises with a manufacturing production facility of merchandise using labor, machines, chemical and biological processing, or formulation that transforms raw materials into finished goods at large scales. | None | |
| Janitorial closet | Janitorial closets are for storage of janitorial supplies and can also including waste and recycling rooms. | None | |
| K to 12 school | None | ||
| Kitchen | A kitchen is an area for cooking and food preparation, and might include a stove, a sink, a refrigerator, a microwave oven, a dishwasher and other electric appliances. | None | |
| Kitchenette | A kitchenette is a smaller area than a kitchen for a small refrigerator, a microwave oven, hotplate, and/or a sink often found in motel and hotel rooms, small apartments, college dormitories or office buildings. | None | |
| Laboratory | A laboratory premises with unspecified function. | None | |
| Laboratory medical | Laboratory premises providing analytic or diagnostic services generally to the medical profession. | None | |
| Laboratory testing | Laboratory premises that have physical, chemical, and other analytical testing services. | None | |
| Laundry area | A laundry area is a room or area where clothes are washed and might include a washing machine and clothes dryer. | None | |
| Library | None | ||
| Lifestyle center | None | ||
| Living area | A living room is a room in a residential house for relaxing and socializing. | None | |
| Lobby | A lobby, foyer or entrance hall is an area often located at the entrance of a building for socializing and greeting. | None | |
| Lodging | Lodging premises with unconventional or temporary housing type such as a bed and breakfast. | None | |
| Lodging area | A lodging area that is not common to all guests or occupants. For example guest rooms in a hotel, or apartment units in a multifamily complex. | None | |
| Lodging institutional | Lodging premises including student housing, dormitory, residence hall, fraternity, sorority, military barrack, government shelter, and orphanage. Excluding correctional facility and skilled nursing home. | None | |
| Lodging residential | None | ||
| Lodging with extended amenities | Lodging premises including hotels and resort. | None | |
| Lodging with limited amenities | Lodging premises including motels, lodges, inns, camps, cabins, and cottages. | None | |
| Mailing center post office | None | ||
| Manufactured home | Manufactured homes are prefabricated somewhere other than the current site. Manufactured homes include premises such as house boats, mobile homes, and trailers. | None | |
| Manufacturing industrial | None | ||
| Manufacturing industrial plant | None | ||
| Mechanical room | The mechanical room is dedicated to the mechanical equipment and its associated electrical equipment. | None | |
| Media center | A media center is place for researching, viewing and producing a wide range of media. | None | |
| Medical office | None | ||
| Mixed use | None | ||
| Mixed use commercial | A commercial premises includes non-manufacturing business establishments including hotels, restaurants, wholesale businesses, retail stores, warehouses, storage facilities, and health, social and educational institutions. | None | |
| Mixed use property | None | ||
| Movie theater | None | ||
| Multifamily | Multifamily housing premises of any configuration. | None | |
| Multifamily housing | None | ||
| Multifamily individual unit | Premises is a unit within a multi-family structure, such as condominiums and apartments. | None | |
| Multifamily with commercial | Multifamily units in building premises created in an existing commercial structure including studio unit. | None | |
| Museum | None | ||
| Non chemical storage room | Non-chemical storage rooms are pantries, closets, etc. | None | |
| Non office work area | A non-office work area is a shared area for administrative work and job duties such as the sales floor of a retailer, and the auto repair room in a repair shop. | None | |
| None | None | None | |
| Not applicable | Not applicable | None | |
| Office | Administrative and professional office premises that manage other establishments of the company. | None | |
| Office work area | An office work area is a room or area where administrative work is performed. | None | |
| Other | Other | None | |
| Other education | None | ||
| Other entertainment public assembly | None | ||
| Other lodging residential | None | ||
| Other office | None | ||
| Other public service | None | ||
| Other recreation | None | ||
| Other restaurant bar | None | ||
| Other retail mall | None | ||
| Other services | None | ||
| Other specialty hospital | None | ||
| Other stadium | None | ||
| Other technology science | None | ||
| Other utility | None | ||
| Outpatient rehabilitation physical therapy | None | ||
| Parking | Enclosed, partially enclosed, or open parking premises including attached garage, underground parking, uncovered driveways or lots, and covered carports. | None | |
| Performing arts | None | ||
| Police station | None | ||
| Printing room | A printing room is an area where printing takes place, such as the development of film. | None | |
| Prison incarceration | None | ||
| Private area | A private area is an area for exclusive use by authorized persons only, and may exist in apartments, gated communities, condominiums, cooperatives and shopping malls. | None | |
| Public housing | Housing premises provided by public agency. | None | |
| Public safety | Government or non-government premises for public safety activities such as emergency planning and disaster preparedness centers. | None | |
| Public safety correctional facility | Long-term corrections facility premises for the confinement, correction, and rehabilitation of adult and/or juvenile offenders sentenced by a court. | None | |
| Public safety detention center | Short-term detention center premises for the confinement, correction, and rehabilitation of adult and/or juvenile offenders sentenced by a court. | None | |
| Public safety station | Premises for criminal and civil law enforcement and other activities related to the preservation of order including fire, police, and ranger stations. | None | |
| Public services | None | ||
| Race track | None | ||
| Reception area | A reception area is a space for hospitality after a main event such as a wedding or graduation. It might include food, drinks, and entertainment. | None | |
| Recreation | Recreation premises including roller skating rinks, climbing gym, bowling alleys, basketball courts, ping pong, racquetball, handball, and batting cages. | None | |
| Recreation fitness center | Fitness center premises for active physical fitness conditioning including aerobic dance or exercise centers, or weight training centers. | None | |
| Recreation ice rink | Ice rink premises such as gyms, health clubs, training facilities and ice skating rinks. | None | |
| Recreation indoor sport | Indoor sport premises for aerobic dance or exercise centers including handball courts, racquetball courts, or tennis courts, bike park, skateboard park and curling rink. | None | |
| Recreation pool | Indoor or outdoor recreation premises for swimming or wave pool for fitness or recreational purposes. | None | |
| Recycle center | None | ||
| Refrigerated storage | Refrigeration is a process in which work is done to move heat from one location to another. The work of heat transport is traditionally driven by mechanical work, but can also be driven by heat, magnetism, electricity, laser, or other means. Refrigeration has many applications, including, but not limited to: household refrigerators, industrial freezers, cryogenics, and air conditioning. Heat pumps may use the heat output of the refrigeration process, and also may be designed to be reversible, but are otherwise similar to refrigeration units. | None | |
| Religious worship | None | ||
| Repair services | None | ||
| Residence hall dormitory | None | ||
| Residential care facility | None | ||
| Restaurant | None | ||
| Restroom | A restroom is a room or small building containing one or more toilets and/or urinals. Public restrooms might exist as handicapped, unisex and male and/or female restrooms. | None | |
| Retail | Premises include retailing merchandise such as furniture and home furnishings stores, electronics and appliance stores, food and beverage stores, health and personal care stores, clothing and clothing accessories stores, sporting goods, hobby, book and music stores, and office supplies, stationery and gift stores. Excludes malls. | None | |
| Retail dry goods retail | Individual retail store within a mall or stand-alone that does not sell groceries, includes auto dealerships. | None | |
| Retail enclosed mall | A shopping mall premises located in one or more buildings of retailers with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to walk inside from unit to unit. | None | |
| Retail mall | Premises located in one or more buildings comprised of small to large retailers, restaurants, and entertainment establishments located indoor or outdoor. | None | |
| Retail store | None | ||
| Retail strip mall | An open shopping mall premises that has multiple retail buildings and other businesses with sidewalks and large open parking lots. | None | |
| Retail supermarket | Retailer supplying a wide range of products including groceries. | None | |
| Roller rink | None | ||
| Security room | A security room houses safety and security equipment as well as personnel. | None | |
| Senior living community | None | ||
| Service | These establishments may provide general services on the premises. | None | |
| Service beauty and health | Premises with beauty services including barber shops, hair stylist shops, facial salons, nail salon, hairdressing salon, cosmetology salon, and other personal care services. | None | |
| Service laundry or dry cleaning | Dry cleaning services and laundering services, including coin-operated, that provide cleaning services on the premises. | None | |
| Service postal | Premises for mail services that include collection, pick-up, and delivery operations of letters and small parcels. | None | |
| Service production and assembly | Premises with services for the production of paper products, tailoring, and flower arrangements. | None | |
| Service repair | Premises for repair services of automotive, appliances, and equipment. | None | |
| Service studio | A workshop or studio used by an artist, photographer, sculptor, performer, etc. This can include studios used for music and television recording, dance practice, yoga and aerobics, etc. | None | |
| Shipping and receiving | Shipping and receiving premises include loading or unloading docks and processing counters. | None | |
| Single family | Housing units created in an existing residential or nonresidential premises. | None | |
| Single family home | None | ||
| Sleeping area | A sleeping area is a room where people sleep such as a bedroom. | None | |
| Social meeting hall | None | ||
| Spectator area | A spectator area is a space where the audience may observe, sitting or standing, such as bleachers, guest seating at a theater, and auditorium seating area. | None | |
| Sport play area | A room for sports, recreation or playing. | None | |
| Stadium closed | None | ||
| Stadium open | None | ||
| Stage | A stage is a designated space for the performance of productions, such as music and theater. A stage may consist of raised or un-raised platforms that serve as a focal point for an audience. | None | |
| Supermarket grocery store | None | ||
| Swimming pool | None | ||
| Technology science | None | ||
| Telephone data entry | A telephone data entry is a place where services include data entry from telephone directories. | None | |
| Transportation terminal | A terminal premises where freight and passengers either departs, arrives, or is handled in the transportation process using facilities and equipment to accommodate the traffic. | None | |
| Transportation terminal station | None | ||
| Transportation waiting area | A transportation waiting area is a space where people wait until an arrival or departure of a particular mode of transportation, and can exist at an airport such a cell phone lot. | None | |
| Unknown | Unknown | None | |
| Urgent care clinic other outpatient | None | ||
| Utility | A premises providing services for the public such as electricity, natural gas, water, sewage, and telecommunications. | None | |
| Vault | A vault is a chamber used for storage of precious property. | None | |
| Veterinary office | None | ||
| Vivarium | A premises adapted or prepared for keeping animals under semi-natural conditions for observation, study, or as pets, such as an aquarium, zoo, pet shop, terrarium, etc. | None | |
| Vocational school | None | ||
| Waiting area | A waiting area is a space where people sit or stand until an event begins and often exist at a hospital. | None | |
| Warehouse | Premises with warehousing and storage facilities excluding refrigerated spaces such as bulk farm products. | None | |
| Warehouse refrigerated | Premises with refrigerated warehousing and storage facilities that provide services including blast freezing, tempering, and modified atmosphere storage. | None | |
| Warehouse self storage | Self-storage providing secure premises where clients can store and retrieve their goods. | None | |
| Warehouse storage | None | ||
| Warehouse unrefrigerated | Premises with warehousing and storage facilities excluding refrigerated spaces, such as petroleum, lumber, and documents. | None | |
| Water treatment | Premises with operating water treatment plants including pumping stations, aqueducts, and/or distribution mains. | None | |
| Water treatment drinking water and distribution | Drinking Water Treatment and Distribution refers to premises designed to pump and distribute drinking water through a network of pipes. Depending on the water source (groundwater, surface water, purchased water), a water utility may or may not contain a treatment process. This classification applies to any and all water sources and any and all levels of treatment. | None | |
| Water treatment wastewater | Wastewater Treatment Plant refers to facilities designed to treat municipal wastewater. This classification is intended for primary, secondary, and advanced treatment facilities with or without nutrient removal. Treatment processes may include biological, chemical, and physical treatment. This classification does not apply to drinking water treatment and distribution facilities. | None | |
| Wholesale club supercenter | None | ||
| Worship facility | None | ||
| Zoo | None |
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