Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 55.58
Liaison Stephen Ellis
Submission Date April 26, 2017
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

Boston University
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Dennis Carlberg
Associate Vice President for Sustainability
BU Sustainability
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Endowment size:
1,561,352,280 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
133.50 Acres

IECC climate region:
Cold

Locale:
Large city

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

Conditioned floor area:
13,318,898 Square feet

Floor area of laboratory space:
1,007,655 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
49,353 Square feet

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

Floor area of residential space:
3,510,287 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 3.60
Geothermal 0
Hydro 7.50
Natural gas 48.50
Nuclear 29.60
Solar photovoltaic 0.40
Wind 2
Other (please specify and explain below) 8.40

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
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 6
Geothermal ---
Natural gas 94
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

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