Pennsylvania State University Buildings API

University buildings and their facility attributes. One tag of the Office of Physical Plant's single LionSpaceFIS service; the buildings, campuses, rooms, events and health entries in this file are five views of one contract, split per tag by refine-openapis.

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GET /buildings List buildings #

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pennsylvania-state-university-buildings-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
# authorship: DERIVED BY API EVANGELIST. Penn State's Office of Physical Plant publishes HTML
# documentation for LionSpaceFIS and no machine-readable specification of its own; this file is
# refine-openapis' per-tag split of openapi/_original/pennsylvania-state-university-fis.yaml, which we
# reconstructed from those HTML docs and from live observed responses (appVersion 1.14.0).
# The SERVICE is Penn State's; this DESCRIPTION of it is ours.
x-method: derived
x-source-url: openapi/_original/pennsylvania-state-university-fis.yaml
x-operator: institution
x-generated: '2026-08-30'
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: LionSpaceFIS REST Buildings API
  description: Public REST API from the Penn State Office of Physical Plant (OPP) exposing the university's facilities and space data, the successor to the legacy FIS Facilities Information System. Exposes buildings, rooms, campuses, buildingEvents, and roomEvents entities with filtering, wildcard, and comparison operators, plus a health endpoint. This OpenAPI description was reconstructed from the public HTML documentation and from live, observed responses of the running service (appVersion 1.14.0); the provider does not publish a machine-readable specification of its own.
  version: 1.14.0
  contact:
    name: Penn State Office of Physical Plant
    url: https://apps.opp.psu.edu/fis-api/
servers:
- url: https://apps.opp.psu.edu/fis-api/v1
  description: Production v1 API
- url: https://apps.opp.psu.edu/fis-api
  description: Service root (health endpoint)
tags:
- name: Buildings
  description: University buildings and their facility attributes.
paths:
  /buildings:
    get:
      tags:
      - Buildings
      summary: List buildings
      description: Returns buildings with their facility attributes. Supports filtering on properties using comparison operators such as :eq, :ne, :ge, :le, :gt, :lt, :like, and :ilike (e.g. name:ilike=lab).
      operationId: listBuildings
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/limit'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/offset'
      - name: name
        in: query
        description: Filter by building name, optionally with an operator suffix.
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: status
        in: query
        description: Filter by building status (e.g. ACTV).
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of buildings.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/Building'
components:
  schemas:
    Campus:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          example: UP
        maximoCampusCode:
          type: string
          example: UP
        lionPathCampusCode:
          type: string
          example: UP
        maximoCode:
          type: string
          example: UP
        lionPathCode:
          type: string
          example: AE
        name:
          type: string
          example: University Park
    Building:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          example: '0402000'
        name:
          type: string
          example: Wartik Laboratory (Dr Thomas)
        abbreviation:
          type: string
          example: Wartik Lab
        maximoName:
          type: string
          example: WARTIK LAB
        function:
          type: string
          example: '30500'
        buildingFunctionCat:
          type: string
          example: EG
        status:
          type: string
          example: ACTV
        county:
          type: string
          example: Centre
        address:
          type: string
          example: 360 SCIENCE DR
        city:
          type: string
          example: UNIVERSITY PARK
        state:
          type: string
          example: PA
        zipCode:
          type: string
          example: '16802'
        businessAreaKey:
          type: string
          example: '6390'
        isWorkspace:
          type: boolean
          example: true
        facilityCoordinators:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        capacity:
          type: integer
          example: 178
        occupancy:
          type: integer
          example: 69
        campus:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Campus'
        lastUpdateDate:
          type: string
          format: date
          example: '2026-04-29'
        dateInactivated:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          format: date
        latLong:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/LatLong'
    LatLong:
      type: object
      properties:
        latitude:
          type: number
          format: double
          example: 40.79974
        longitude:
          type: number
          format: double
          example: -77.86252
  parameters:
    limit:
      name: limit
      in: query
      description: Maximum number of records to return.
      required: false
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 1
    offset:
      name: offset
      in: query
      description: Number of records to skip for pagination.
      required: false
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 0