Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 51.17
Liaison Tom Hartzell
Submission Date Feb. 22, 2016
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

Calvin University
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
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"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

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Endowment size:
123,665,678 US/Canadian $

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Total campus area:
390 Acres

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IECC climate region:
Cold

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Locale:
Urban fringe of mid-size city

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Gross floor area of building space:
2,263,247 Gross square feet

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Conditioned floor area:
2,263,247 Square feet

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Floor area of laboratory space:
170,910 Square feet

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Floor area of healthcare space:
9,370 Square feet

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Floor area of other energy intensive space:
0 Square feet

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Floor area of residential space:
705,010 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal 43
Geothermal ---
Hydro ---
Natural gas 37
Nuclear 8
Solar photovoltaic 1
Wind 6
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

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A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
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Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal ---
Electricity ---
Fuel oil ---
Geothermal ---
Natural gas 100
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

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A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
For the purposes of this current STARS submission, some off-campus buildings are not included in the building square footage, the campus' footprint, nor the GHG emissions inventory. There is no data currently about this aspects of them. We hope to change this in the future. These off-campus buildings include: the Raybrook building that houses the Center for Social Research, the Project Neighborhood homes, and the downtown art center. It is unclear how these will affect the points earned for the GHG emissions credit. However, to be conservative, we are not including in the campus footprint the acres of the Nature preserve nor the 100 acres of woods near Flat Iron Lake owned by Calvin, nor Walden Lake campgrounds Calvin owns, or other lands that could have possible been counted as carbon sequestration lands.

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