Texas Tech University is in compliance with Comprehensive Standard 3.10.7. 

Texas Tech University is a comprehensive, multi-level public university. As such, it maintains an over 1,800 acre main campus, a 16,000 acre research farm near Amarillo at Pantex, Texas, research facilities at Reese Center (near Lubbock), and agricultural field laboratories at New Deal, TX, located about 25 miles north of the main campus. A complete inventory of the university’s nearly 200 buildings with total area and assignable area is available on line at http://www.irim.ttu.edu/SACSFocusReport/BuildingInventory.pdf.  Additional information on the university’s physical facilities is in the Division of Operations response to this comprehensive standard. 

The university created a comprehensive 10-year campus master plan in 1997 that has guided campus development during a period of rapid expansion (the plan is located in room 5, in the east basement of the Administration Building). The board of regents at its most recent meeting (August 16-17, 2004) heard a consultant’s report on a planned revision of the master plan. The new plan will be developed in the next 12 months and may be ready for board review sometime during the 2005-2006 academic year. 

The response of the Division of Operations to this comprehensive standard is very complete and serves to support the university’s claim of compliance. Reports for remote campuses are also provided in the unit responses.

Off-Site Committee Finding: 

3.10.7   The institution operates and maintains physical facilities, both on and off campus, that are adequate to serve the needs of the institution’s educational programs, support services, and other mission-related activities.  

___       Compliance
_X_      Non-compliance
___       Did not review 

Comments:   

There are a large number of buildings referenced in Facilities Building Inventory (www.irim.ttu.edu/SAC/BuildingInventory.pdf) that have a CND code of less than satisfactory.  The On-Site committee will want to examine this issue.

TTU Response:  

The “less than satisfactory” code reflects more the nature of the code than it does the condition of the buildings. The following quote from a message written by Mr. Tom Keaton, Director of Space Management and Planning for the university may explain the code and how it is applied.  

In response to your inquiry regarding the condition coding for campus buildings on the Space Inventory, I have compiled some information that may clarify the situation. Attached are documents for you to reference as required and that you may provide to any entity that may benefit from them. 

The condition code on the inventory is not a dichotomy. There is, of course, a rating of satisfactory (CND code 1), which indicates that a building requires only normal maintenance. If a building requires renovations to bring it up to a satisfactory (maintenance only) level, then it would fall into one of three categories (CND codes 2, 3, and 4) that are based on the cost of the renovations as a percentage of the replacement cost of the entire building. The buildings listed in one of these three are still highly functional and are being used for the academic pursuits of the occupants, but there are renovations required to optimize them (italics added). Other condition codes include Demolition (CND code 5), Termination (CND code 6), and Mothballed (CND code 7) and these buildings are not being used. The definitions for all condition codes can be found in the attached Facilities Inventory Manual, Appendix A, page 1-2.

The condition code is assigned by the Physical Plant and entered into the inventory by Facility Information and Reports (FI&R). The method used to reach this code is a Facilities Audit that is conducted on every building using a six-year cycle. I have also attached copies of the Physical Plant’s last report to FI&R and the Physical Plant’s OP regarding the Facility Audit. 

As per the note above, we have attached a more current (2004) audit of the university’s buildings than was previously available. We also add copies of the description of the Facility Condition Code and the university’s facilities manual. 

Inspection of the university’s physical plant should demonstrate that buildings are adequately maintained to serve the functions for which they are currently being utilized. 

Attachments: 

Facilities Inventory Manual    
http://www.ba.ttu.edu/isqs/westfall/facilitiesManual.pdf

Facilities Audit Program (OP 06.01)  
http://www.ba.ttu.edu/isqs/westfall/Facilities-Audit-Program.doc

Facilities Condition Code        
http://www.ba.ttu.edu/isqs/westfall/FacilityConditionCode.rtf

TTU Building Master List     
http://www.ba.ttu.edu/isqs/westfall/ttubuildingmasterlist.xls