Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	71.36
Liaison	Michael Chapman
Submission Date	Sept. 20, 2023

STARS v2.2

Nova Scotia Community College
OP-5: Building Energy Efficiency

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	4.62 / 6.00	Kirk Herman Environmental Engineer Facilities and Engineering

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Part 1. Site energy use per unit of floor area

Performance year energy consumption

Electricity use, performance year (report kilowatt-hours):

	kWh	MMBtu
Imported electricity	19,300,266 Kilowatt-hours	65,852.51 MMBtu
Electricity from on-site, non-combustion facilities/devices (e.g., renewable energy systems)	0 Kilowatt-hours	0 MMBtu

Stationary fuels and thermal energy, performance year (report MMBtu):

	MMBtu
Stationary fuels used on-site to generate electricity and/or thermal energy	84,351 MMBtu
Imported steam, hot water, and/or chilled water	9,814 MMBtu

Total site energy consumption, performance year:

160,017.51 MMBtu

Performance year building space

Gross floor area of building space, performance year:

2,960,518 Gross square feet

Floor area of energy intensive space, performance year:

	Floor area
Laboratory space	0 Square feet
Healthcare space	0 Square feet
Other energy intensive space	346,111 Square feet

EUI-adjusted floor area, performance year:

3,306,629 Gross square feet

Performance year heating and cooling degree days

Degree days, performance year:

	Degree days
Heating degree days	3,992 Degree-Days (°F)
Cooling degree days	132 Degree-Days (°F)

Total degree days, performance year:

4,124 Degree-Days (°F)

Performance period

Start and end dates of the performance year (or 3-year period):

	Start date	End date
Performance period	Sept. 1, 2021	Aug. 31, 2022

Metric used in scoring for Part 1

Total site energy consumption per unit of EUI-adjusted floor area per degree day, performance year:

11.73 Btu / GSF / Degree-Day (°F)

Part 2. Reduction in source energy use per unit of floor area

Baseline year energy consumption

STARS 2.2 requires electricity data in kilowatt-hours (kWh). If a baseline has already been established in a previous version of STARS and the institution wishes to continue using it, the electricity data must be re-entered in kWh. To convert existing electricity figures from MMBtu to kWh, simply multiply by 293.07107 MMBtu/kWh.

Electricity use, baseline year (report kWh):

	kWh	MMBtu
Imported electricity	25,713,920 Kilowatt-hours	87,735.90 MMBtu
Electricity from on-site, non-combustion facilities/devices (e.g., renewable energy systems)	0 Kilowatt-hours	0 MMBtu

Stationary fuels and thermal energy, baseline year (report MMBtu):

	MMBtu
Stationary fuels used on-site to generate electricity and/or thermal energy	109,200 MMBtu
Imported steam, hot water, and/or chilled water	8,271 MMBtu

Total site energy consumption, baseline year:

205,206.90 MMBtu

Baseline year building space

Gross floor area of building space, baseline year:

2,630,560 Gross square feet

Baseline period

Start and end dates of the baseline year (or 3-year period):

	Start date	End date
Baseline period	April 1, 2008	March 31, 2009

A brief description of when and why the energy consumption baseline was adopted:

The 2008/2009 academic year was the first year NSCC began documenting energy demand and tracking emissions for each Campus in one centralized public location. This is the baseline used in the Annual Sustainability Report. The report can be found on NSCC’s sustainability webpage: https://www.nscc.ca/about/vision-and-values/sustainability/index.asp

Source energy

Source-site ratio for imported electricity:

Total energy consumption per unit of floor area:

	Site energy	Source energy
Performance year	0.05 MMBtu per square foot	0.08 MMBtu per square foot
Baseline year	0.08 MMBtu per square foot	0.11 MMBtu per square foot

Metric used in scoring for Part 2

Percentage reduction in total source energy consumption per unit of floor area from baseline:

31.49

Optional Fields

Documentation to support the performance year energy consumption figures reported above:

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A brief description of the institution's initiatives to shift individual attitudes and practices in regard to energy efficiency:

Sustainability has been embedded in the workplace culture at NSCC for over a decade. Sustainability is noted as a component of NSCC Strategic Plan during employee orientation. Awareness campaigns are regularly implemented for various sustainability initiatives focused on energy, both at individual campuses to address specific issues, as well as College-wide projects. Each campus has a sustainability committee that facilitate awareness campaigns and promote awareness about energy consumption at NSCC. Our sustainability team publishes an annual sustainability report that covers energy consumption as a performance metric at each campus in the province and creates action items for each fiscal year.

A brief description of energy use standards and controls employed by the institution:

All of our campuses are controlled by their own central building automation system. The central building automation system controls the temperature according to the peak occupancy hours of the building. Winter temperatures are regulated to 20°C in occupied areas, and 16°C in unoccupied areas.

A brief description of Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting and other energy-efficient lighting strategies employed by the institution:

NSCC has been pursuing large-scale changeover from conventional light bulbs to LEDs over the past several years. Most of our lighting is now LED, both for exterior and interior spaces. It is estimated that 90% of the lighting in the NSCC buildings are high-efficiency. Now the implementation focuses on replacing unique and difficult to source fixtures.

A brief description of passive solar heating, geothermal systems, and related strategies employed by the institution:

Pilikan House at the Middleton Campus in Annapolis Valley was built facing South, allowing for optimum solar gain. The windows let in natural light which helps increase the home's ability to capture and store thermal energy in the form of heat. All new construction has passive solar heating taken into consideration.

The Centre for the Built Environment at Ivany Campus has a south-facing solar wall, to feed heat into the HVAC system. Similarly, the Pictou Trades and Innovation Centre that was completed in 2017 also has a south-facing solar wall, as well as a geothermal system for building heating and cooling, and a solar hot water system that pre-heats all domestic hot water in the building.

A brief description of co-generation employed by the institution:

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A brief description of the institution's initiatives to replace energy-consuming appliances, equipment, and systems with high efficiency alternatives:

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Website URL where information about the institution’s energy conservation and efficiency program is available:

https://www.nscc.ca/about/vision-and-values/sustainability/index.asp

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Other energy intensive space includes trades shops and labs.

Details of annual energy consumption can be found at:
https://www.nscc.ca/about/vision-and-values/sustainability/index.asp

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