Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 49.34
Liaison John Stolz
Submission Date March 5, 2021

STARS v2.2

Duquesne University
OP-12: Electronics Purchasing

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.73 / 1.00 Gabriella Zuccolotto
Graduate Assistant
Center for Environmental Research & Education (CERE)
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Total annual expenditures on electronics:
887,525 US/Canadian $

Expenditures on environmentally or socially preferable electronics:
Expenditure Per Level
EPEAT Gold registered and/or third party certified at the highest achievable level under a multi-attribute sustainability standard 295,273 US/Canadian $
EPEAT Silver registered and/or third party certified at mid-level under a multi-attribute sustainability standard 350,643 US/Canadian $
EPEAT Bronze registered and/or third party certified at minimum level under a multi-attribute sustainability standard 178,002 US/Canadian $
Labeled under a single-attribute standard 0 US/Canadian $

Do the figures reported above include leased equipment?:
Yes

A brief description of the time period from which the figures reported above are drawn:

These purchases are all made through Duquesne University's Computer Store in Fiscal Year 2020 and include computer laboratories, leases, and departmental sales.


Website URL where information about the institution’s electronics purchasing is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Although $540,235.00 dollars was spent on Energy STAR products, all of these products are also EPEAT certified. Since products cannot be double counted under both certifications, the expenditures on single-attribute standard products has been inputted as 0.

EPEAT Product Search: https://epeat.net/
Energy STAR (Single-attribute standard) Search: https://www.energystar.gov/productfinder/


Although $540,235.00 dollars was spent on Energy STAR products, all of these products are also EPEAT certified. Since products cannot be double counted under both certifications, the expenditures on single-attribute standard products has been inputted as 0.

EPEAT Product Search: https://epeat.net/
Energy STAR (Single-attribute standard) Search: https://www.energystar.gov/productfinder/

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