Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 75.35
Liaison Megan Litke
Submission Date March 30, 2016
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STARS v2.0

American University
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Endowment size:
546,000,000 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
84 Acres

IECC climate region:
Mixed-Humid

Locale:
Large city

Gross floor area of building space:
3,860,748 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
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Floor area of laboratory space:
241,718 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
5,591 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
37,601 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
1,081,708 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 39
Geothermal 0
Hydro 1
Natural gas 25
Nuclear 30
Solar photovoltaic 1
Wind 4
Other (please specify and explain below) 1

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:

Other is stated by our energy supplier to be electricity sourced from "other resources."


Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 0
Electricity 0
Fuel oil 0
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 100
Other (please specify and explain below) 0

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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