Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 73.23
Liaison Michael Chapman
Submission Date Dec. 8, 2016
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Nova Scotia Community College
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Kirk Herman
Environmental Engineer
Facilities and Engineering
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Endowment size:
7,000,000 US/Canadian $

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Total campus area:
505.17 Acres

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IECC climate region:
Cold

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Locale:
Rural

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Gross floor area of building space:
2,768,416 Gross square feet

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Conditioned floor area:
2,768,416 Square feet

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Floor area of laboratory space:
171,933 Square feet

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Floor area of healthcare space:
0 Square feet

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Floor area of other energy intensive space:
483,421 Square feet

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Floor area of residential space:
51,403.35 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 2
Coal 53
Geothermal 0
Hydro 14
Natural gas 14
Nuclear 0
Solar photovoltaic 0
Wind 12
Other (please specify and explain below) 4

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A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
Remaining 4% is imports. Breakdown of electricity source taken from Nova Scotia Power energy generation statistics from 2016: http://www.nspower.ca/en/home/about-us/todayspower.aspx#

Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 0
Electricity 0
Fuel oil 70
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 22
Other (please specify and explain below) 8

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A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
NSCC's Waterfront Campus purchases steam heat from a nearby hospital, which accounts for 5% of building heating. The remaining 3% of building heating comes from supplementary propane systems.

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Endowment of $7M CAD is solely used to financially support students. 2015-16 portion of this fund is $1.28M CAD.

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