Stanford University
PRE-4: Operational Characteristics

While nearly all the reporting fields reflect data that was current at the time of this STARS submission in March 2022, please note that the Gross Floor Area of Building Space and Energy Intensive Space reflect the most recently available data, which was analyzed in early 2021. On the contrary, some other STARS credits like the Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Building Energy Efficiency credits are using square footage data from 2019.

Reported Laboratory Space metric has nearly doubled from the last submission, and the Other energy intensive space has reduced. These changes are largely due to improvements in the methodology of identifying these types of space, rather than actual increases or decreases in the GSF since Stanford's prior STARS submission. However, two of the most notable buildings constructed between the 2019 and early 2021 timeframe are the Escondido Village Residential buildings (~1,851,000 sq ft) and the Biomedical Innovation building (~219,000 sq ft). Finally, the Terman Engineering building (~44,000 sq ft) significantly improved its EUI between 2019 through 2021. This is why the "Other energy intensive space" metric reported in the PRE-4 credit (~15,000 sq ft), which is based on 2021 data, is significantly lower than the ~59,000 sq ft metric reported in the Building Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Emissions credits, which are based on 2019 data.

Additionally, the boundaries for certain STARS credits may vary from data in this PRE-4 submissions based on the operational control of the associated sustainability metrics. For example, the operational control boundaries for the Greenhouse Gas Emissions inventory are slightly different from the overall STARS boundary. The difference primarily derives from the inclusion of off-campus leased spaces in the GHG inventory boundary.