| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 63.29 |
| Liaison | Samuel Crowl |
| Submission Date | Feb. 20, 2018 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Ohio University
OP-3: Building Operations and Maintenance
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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1.04 / 5.00 |
Vince
Weatherstein Director of Energy Management Facilities Management & Safety |
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Total floor area of building space:
8,348,057
Square feet
O+M Certified Space
Building space must be certified under a rating system focusing on the operations and maintenance of existing buildings (e.g. LEED O+M) to count as certified space for this credit. Sustainability in new construction and major renovation projects (e.g. LEED BD+C certification) is covered in the Building Design and Construction credit.
| Certified Floor Area | |
| LEED O+M Platinum or the highest achievable level under another GBC rating system | 0 Square feet |
| LEED O+M Gold or the 2nd highest level under another 4- or 5-tier GBC rating system | 0 Square feet |
| Certified at mid-level under a 3- or 5-tier GBC rating system (e.g. BREEAM-In Use, CASBEE for Existing Buildings, DGNB, Green Star Performance) | 0 Square feet |
| LEED O+M Silver or at a step above minimum level under another 4 -or 5–tier GBC rating system | 0 Square feet |
| LEED O+M Certified or certified at minimum level under another GBC rating system | 0 Square feet |
Floor area of building space that is certified under a non-GBC rating system for the operations and maintenance of existing buildings, e.g. BOMA BESt, Green Globes CIEB:
0
Square feet
Percentage of building space certified under a green building rating system for the operations and maintenance of existing buildings:
0
If reporting certified space, provide:
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If reporting uncertified space, provide the following:
Uncertified Space
Indoor Air Quality Management
0
A copy of the IAQ management policy or protocol:
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The website URL where the IAQ policy/protocol may be found:
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Green Cleaning
100
A copy or the green cleaning policy:
A brief description of how green cleaning is incorporated into cleaning contracts:
(Note: Ohio University hires its own custodial staff and does not have a cleaning contract with a third party)
The strategies outlined in the Green Cleaning Practices will assist Ohio University (OHIO) Facilities Management in their efforts to provide services that are valued, effective and efficient while allowing the department to serve as responsible stewards of the university’s resources (in accordance with the Vice President for Finance & Administration Mission Statement). While maintaining a clean, healthy and sustainable living, learning and working environment is reliant on the practices of Ohio University custodial staff, it is also essential that building occupants do their part to maintain a safe space. Additional efforts put forth during the construction of new buildings will allow for building occupants to appropriately interact with their built environments in order to contribute to the Green Cleaning Practices as established here.
Energy Management and Benchmarking
8
A brief description of the energy management or benchmarking program:
Ohio University has an electrical sub-meter for every building on-campus fed by OHIO's 69kV sub-station. We are in the last stages of a "Metering Phase I" project that added $1.5 million of meters to our Priority A buildings - about 2 million square feet of research, dining, housing and athletic space. We place to start benchmarking these buildings in 2017-2018.
As of right now, we have 505,091 GSF of buildings, a total of 11 buildings, completely sub-metered, including CHW, Natural Gas, Steam, Condensate, Electric, Domestic Hot Water and Domestic Cold Water. We used two different software solutions to do the monitoring and benchmarking. 1) EnergyCAP from which we pay all of our utility bills and manage our sub-meters on a monthly basis and 2) Earthright Dashboard from which we get real-time data for minute-to-minute consumption from the real-time sub-meters. Buildings included are 9 Factory St, Carr, Luchs, Sowle, Tanaka, LLC, McCracken, Tupper, Lindley, WUSOC and 31 South Court.
We now have complete sub-metering of our CHW system and use the system to do studies and troubleshoot and equipment using more than average for the building type benchmark.
Lastly, using our EnergyCAP software, we do monthly utility bill audits on all of the bills received from the utilities and have an approval and audit process in place to make sure any above normal usage is flagged, a work order generated, and investigated - and solved, where applicable.
Water Management and Benchmarking
100
A brief description of the water management or benchmarking program:
We have utility domestic cold water meters on every facility on campus. Each month, we utilize EnergyCAP, our utility bill management software, to run audits on the usage and bills. We send out a monthly WUI (Water usage intensity) report and a 4 year-over-year graph to demonstrate outliers. When an outlier or WUI is higher than it should be, a work order is generated, and troubleshot and resolved. OHIO has avoided over $100,000 of water costs in the past year from utilizing this method.
Optional Fields
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Claire Naisby, Building Systems Integration Manager, provided Energy and Water Management & Benchmarking information on 2/12/18.
Jeff Campbell, Director, Environmental Health & Safety, suggested removal of IAQ information on 3/26/18.
Steve Mack, Director of Facilities Management, approved Green Cleaning information on 2/9/18.
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