Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 69.70
Liaison Kelly Wellman
Submission Date Dec. 2, 2021

STARS v2.2

Texas A&M University
OP-4: Building Operations and Maintenance

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 5.00
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Total floor area of existing building space:
29,603,184 Square feet

Floor area of existing building space operated and maintained in accordance with a sustainable management policy/program and/or a green building rating system:
Existing floor area
Certified at the highest achievable level under a multi-attribute, Green Building Council (GBC) rating system focused on the operations and maintenance of existing buildings (e.g., LEED O+M Platinum) 0 Square feet
Certified at the 2nd highest level under a 4- or 5-tier, multi-attribute, GBC rating system focused on the operations and maintenance of existing buildings (e.g., LEED O+M Gold) 0 Square feet
Certified at mid-level under a 3- or 5-tier, multi-attribute, GBC rating system focused on the operations and maintenance of existing buildings (e.g., BREEAM-In Use Very Good) 0 Square feet
Certified at a step above minimum level under a 4 -or 5–tier, multi-attribute, GBC rating system focused on the operations and maintenance of existing buildings (e.g., LEED O+M Silver) 0 Square feet
Certified at minimum level under a multi-attribute, GBC rating system focused on the operations and maintenance of existing buildings (e.g., BREEAM In-Use Pass or LEED O+M Certified) 0 Square feet
Certified at any level under a non-GBC rating system or single-attribute rating system focused on the operations and maintenance of existing buildings 0 Square feet
Operated and maintained in accordance with a multi-attribute, sustainable management policy/program, but not certified under an O+M rating system 29,603,184 Square feet
Operated and maintained in accordance with a single-attribute, sustainable management policy/program, but not certified under an O+M rating system
 0 Square feet
Total 29,603,184 Square feet

Percentage of existing building space certified under a green building rating system rating system focused on the operations and maintenance of existing buildings:
0

A brief description of the sustainable operations and maintenance policy/program and/or O+M rating system(s) used:
TAMU’s 2017 Campus Master Plan addresses sustainability in concert with the 2018 Sustainability Master Plan, biennial updates, and STARS reports. While much of the content related to sustainability is discussed in Chapter 5, sustainability content appears in the other chapters as well. Green tags appear on the introduction pages of each chapter (as applicable) to highlight sustainability information, strategies, and operations.

The Campus Master Plan can be found at:
https://campusplan.tamu.edu/

A PDF version can be found here:
https://campusplan.tamu.edu/files/presentations/2017CampusMasterPlan.pdf

The 2018 Sustainability Master Plan can be found at:
https://sustainability.tamu.edu/master-plan/index.html

It was determined that 100% of campus building spaces have multi-attribute operation and maintenance since all have indoor air quality, energy management, and water management policies in place. Based on a percent of impact ranking, the green cleaning policy of campus building spaces, 80%, was not considered to have an impact on the overall sustainability of the spaces.

*Note: Campus buildings are cleaned by an outside contractor, not TAMU, like the IAQ, energy and water management policies.

Specific sustainable operations include:

100% of building space is maintained in accordance with a published indoor air quality (IAQ) management policy or protocol. To learn more visit: https://ehs.tamu.edu/programs/indoor-air-quality/

80% of floor area is maintained in accordance with a published green cleaning policy.
To learn more about the methods used to clean buildings across campus, visit https://facilities.tamu.edu/custodial/ and download the SSC Green Cleaning Methods document.

100% of floor area is maintained in accordance with an energy management or benchmarking program and 100% of floor area is maintained in accordance with a water management or benchmarking program.
Texas A&M uses EnergyCAP software to track and tend the EUI, consumption and cost for each building. In addition, all buildings over 5,000 GS are metered for ELE, CHW, HHW, Steam, DCW and the data is available in real-time so that trends can be analyzed.

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Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainable operations and maintenance program is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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