Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 69.45
Liaison Yumiko Jakobcic
Submission Date March 3, 2017
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Grand Valley State University
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Yumiko Jakobcic
Campus Sustainability Coordinator
Office of Sustainability Practices
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Endowment size:
107,585,709 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
1,391 Acres

IECC climate region:
Marine

Locale:
Urban fringe of mid-size city

Gross floor area of building space:
5,665,417 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
4,815,600 Square feet

Floor area of laboratory space:
100,067 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
1,739 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
191,283 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
1,919,893 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0.28
Coal 38.38
Geothermal 0
Hydro 1.37
Natural gas 29.31
Nuclear 21.47
Solar photovoltaic 0.07
Wind 6.91
Other (please specify and explain below) 2.21

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

Fuel oil, pumped storage, solid waste, wood, and biofuel


Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 0
Electricity 0.48
Fuel oil 0.38
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 99.14
Other (please specify and explain below) 0

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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