Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 63.61
Liaison Greg Kozak
Submission Date March 3, 2017
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STARS v2.0

Northwestern University
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A William Bach
Project Manager
Facilities Management - SustainNU
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Endowment size:
9,804,000,000 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
265 Acres

IECC climate region:
Mixed-Humid

Locale:
Urban fringe of large city

Gross floor area of building space:
15,007,605.60 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
12,206,232.60 Square feet

Floor area of laboratory space:
983,408.25 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
37,681.71 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
295,997.15 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
2,104,943.44 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 35
Geothermal 0
Hydro 1
Natural gas 26
Nuclear 33
Solar photovoltaic 0
Wind 3
Other (please specify and explain below) 2

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

The percentages of electricity supply were based on Constellation NewEnergy's (our electricity company's) environmental disclosure information. 1% of the "Other" category is oil-fired power that is listed on their disclosure but not an option here. The remaining 1% is information they have on their disclosure and does not specify what "other resources" means.


Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal ---
Electricity 2.50
Fuel oil ---
Geothermal ---
Natural gas 97.50
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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