Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 74.30
Liaison Joséanne Bélanger-Gravel
Submission Date Sept. 2, 2022

STARS v2.2

Polytechnique Montréal
OP-5: Building Energy Efficiency

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.50 / 6.00 Joséanne Bélanger-Gravel
Sustainability Advisor
Sustainable Development Office
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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 24,981,339 Kilowatt-hours 85,236.33 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 55,737.95 MMBtu
Imported steam, hot water, and/or chilled water 0 MMBtu

Total site energy consumption, performance year:
140,974.28 MMBtu

Performance year building space

Gross floor area of building space, performance year:
120,317 Gross square meters

Floor area of energy intensive space, performance year:
Floor area
Laboratory space 14,105.35 Square meters
Healthcare space 0 Square meters
Other energy intensive space 9,499.54 Square meters

EUI-adjusted floor area, performance year:
158,027.17 Gross square meters

Performance year heating and cooling degree days 

Degree days, performance year:
Degree days
Heating degree days 4,375.80 Degree-Days (°C)
Cooling degree days 473.50 Degree-Days (°C)

Total degree days, performance year:
4,849.30 Degree-Days (°C)

Performance period

Start and end dates of the performance year (or 3-year period):
Start date End date
Performance period May 1, 2018 April 30, 2019

Metric used in scoring for Part 1

Total site energy consumption per unit of EUI-adjusted floor area per degree day, performance year:
56.78 Btu / GSM / Degree-Day (°C)

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 18,800,000 Kilowatt-hours 64,145.60 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 63,903.73 MMBtu
Imported steam, hot water, and/or chilled water 0 MMBtu

Total site energy consumption, baseline year:
128,049.33 MMBtu

Baseline year building space

Gross floor area of building space, baseline year:
74,037 Gross square meters

Baseline period

Start and end dates of the baseline year (or 3-year period):
Start date End date
Baseline period June 1, 2004 May 31, 2005

A brief description of when and why the energy consumption baseline was adopted:
The new buildings (Pavillons Lassonde), which are LEED gold certified buildings, opened in the fall of 2005. We wanted to assess the benefits of having improved our campus with LEED certified buildings.

Source energy

Source-site ratio for imported electricity:
2

Total energy consumption per unit of floor area:
Site energy Source energy
Performance year 1.17 MMBtu per square meter 1.88 MMBtu per square meter
Baseline year 1.73 MMBtu per square meter 2.60 MMBtu per square meter

Metric used in scoring for Part 2

Percentage reduction in total source energy consumption per unit of floor area from baseline:
27.57

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:
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A brief description of energy use standards and controls employed by the institution:
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A brief description of Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting and other energy-efficient lighting strategies employed by the institution:
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A brief description of passive solar heating, geothermal systems, and related strategies employed by the institution:
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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:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
For this section, we are using the flexibility offered by STARS to report older assessment and inventories due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. Data for year 2018-2019 have been chosen since this is the last complete year not affected by COVID-19; therefore it represents normal activities on campus. Furthermore, this choice is considered a conservative one since Polytechnique Montréal continuously improves its energy perfomances, so the years 2019-2020, 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 should show better energy performance than year 2018-2019.

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