SUNY Facilities

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Facility Inventory

The State University of New York’s (SUNY) facility inventory is maintained by each campus at the building and room (space) level. The former is referred to as the Building Characteristics Inventory (BCI) and the latter is the Physical Space Inventory (PSI).

The PSI is a database of all spaces in every building owned or used by the campuses. General information about the buildings are recorded on the BCI. The BCI has 3,000+ building records. The PSI has over 300,000 space entries. Information in both databases covers all SUNY state operated, statutory and community college campuses.

The PSI record’s data relate to the physical characteristics of the space – size of the space, departmental assignment, number of occupant stations and type of space. All spaces within the building are reported. This includes rooms used for academic/support, research, administration, residential and public service. Mechanical and circulation spaces are also reported. The PSI is used for numerous applications, including campus space management, campus facility master planning, statistical analysis and various State and Federal reporting requirements.

The space projection process for SUNY campuses is based primarily on its Physical Space Inventory and student contact hours from the SUNY Institutional Research Information System (SIRIS) databases. PSI records net square feet (NSF) assigned to departments and functions. These information sources are maintained by campus personnel. Additionally, a substantial file of department level instruction space factors and standard models for determining academic and support space are the foundation to the process.

More specific information is presented in SUCF's Physical Space Inventory Manual.