Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 58.99
Liaison Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date Feb. 27, 2015
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

Carnegie Mellon University
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

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

Endowment size:
1,075,637,000 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
143 Acres

IECC climate region:
Mixed-Humid

Locale:
Large city

Gross floor area of building space:
6,454,591 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
4,915,890 Square feet

Floor area of laboratory space:
372,897 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
10,993 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
408,519 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
877,138 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 29.88
Geothermal 0
Hydro 0.61
Natural gas 28.98
Nuclear 38.20
Solar photovoltaic 0
Wind 0
Other (please specify and explain below) 2.30

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

The Pennsylvania Net Electricity Generation Chart, sited from Sept 2014 lists 'Other Renewables', 2.23 which could include biomass, geothermal, solar photovoltaic, and wind electric generation. Also, .1 is Petroleum-Fired


Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 0
Electricity 10
Fuel oil 0
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 90
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

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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