Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 53.74
Liaison Stephen Ellis
Submission Date March 1, 2016
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

Boston University
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
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Endowment size:
1,546,817,904.62 US/Canadian $

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Total campus area:
135 Acres

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IECC climate region:
Cold

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Locale:
Large city

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Gross floor area of building space:
14,843,003 Gross square feet

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Conditioned floor area:
13,318,898 Square feet

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Floor area of laboratory space:
968,417 Square feet

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Floor area of healthcare space:
53,768 Square feet

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Floor area of other energy intensive space:
89,716 Square feet

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Floor area of residential space:
3,527,720 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 5
Geothermal 0
Hydro 8
Natural gas 44
Nuclear 34
Solar photovoltaic 0
Wind 0
Other (please specify and explain below) 9

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A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
http://www.iso-ne.com/static-assets/documents/2015/02/2015-powergridprofile-final.pdf

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 5
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 80
Other (please specify and explain below) 15

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A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
http://www.veoliaenergyna.com/veolia-energy-north-america/locations/boston-cambridge.htm

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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