27.3.5 Budgeting the use of common and shared facilities and equipment

The University encourages sharing of its resources such as facilities and equipment. These common resources are under the responsibility of specific sections which must also budget for their acquisition, maintenance and operation.

Users of these common and shared facilities and equipment must budget only for the direct costs associated with their specific utilization (mostly consumable). It is not necessary to budget for the fraction of the total operating cost corresponding to their use time.

However, the University will implement, in some situation, a cost monitoring of these common and shared facilities and equipment and report this cost to the users, for information and benchmarking.