Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 75.79
Liaison Robert Stroufe
Submission Date Sept. 22, 2015
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

Chatham University
OP-8: Building Energy Consumption

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.45 / 6.00 Mary Whitney
University Sustainability Coordinator
Office of Sustainability
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Total building energy consumption, all sources (transportation fuels excluded):
Performance Year Baseline Year
Total building energy consumption 196,602.52 MMBtu 2,653,808.29 MMBtu

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Purchased electricity and steam:
Performance Year Baseline Year
Grid-purchased electricity 42,367.66 MMBtu 25,368.30 MMBtu
District steam/hot water 0 MMBtu 0 MMBtu

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Gross floor area of building space::
Performance Year Baseline Year
Gross floor area 1,104,000 Gross square feet 723,000 Gross square feet

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Floor area of energy intensive space, performance year::
Floor Area
Laboratory space 60,000 Square feet
Healthcare space 0 Square feet
Other energy intensive space

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Degree days, performance year (base 65 °F)::
Degree days (see help icon above)
Heating degree days 5,722
Cooling degree days 918

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Source-site ratios::
Source-Site Ratio (see help icon above)
Grid-purchased electricity 3.14
District steam/hot water 1.20

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Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or 3-year periods)::
Start Date End Date
Performance Year Jan. 1, 2013 Dec. 31, 2013
Baseline Year Jan. 1, 2005 Dec. 31, 2005

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A brief description of when and why the building energy consumption baseline was adopted:
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A brief description of any building temperature standards employed by the institution:
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A brief description of any light emitting diode (LED) lighting employed by the institution:
We use over 100 LED lights at Chatham University, with a variety of indoor usages for common areas and elevators and some of our offices. We also use 46 watt LEDs in outdoor lighting to replace the 250 watt metal halide units.

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A brief description of any occupancy and/or vacancy sensors employed by the institution:
Chatham University has lighting sensors in all of our classrooms and hallways at our Eastside campus and in most major classrooms at the Shadyside campus to reduce energy when rooms are unoccupied.

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A brief description of any passive solar heating employed by the institution:
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A brief description of any ground-source heat pumps employed by the institution:
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A brief description of any cogeneration technologies employed by the institution:
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A brief description of any building recommissioning or retrofit program employed by the institution:
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A brief description of any energy metering and management systems employed by the institution:
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A brief description of the institution's program to replace energy-consuming appliances, equipment and systems with high efficiency alternatives:
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A brief description of any energy-efficient landscape design initiatives employed by the institution:
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A brief description of any vending machine sensors, lightless machines, or LED-lit machines employed by the institution:
Rather than have on-off motion sensors, we have turned permanently off the lighting in the vending machines.

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A brief description of other energy conservation and efficiency initiatives employed by the institution:
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The website URL where information about the institution’s energy conservation and efficiency initiatives is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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