Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	46.18
Liaison	Suzanne Wood
Submission Date	April 3, 2020
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

UMass Chan Medical School
OP-22: Water Use

Status

Score

Responsible Party

3.06 / 4.00

Suzanne Wood
Sustainability & Energy Manager
Facilities Managment

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Level of ”Physical Risk QUANTITY” for the institution’s main campus as indicated by the World Resources Institute’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas:

Low to Medium

Part 1

Total water use (potable and non-potable combined):

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Total water use	---	218,916,000 Gallons

Potable water use:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use	195,699,240 Gallons	218,916,000 Gallons

Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):

	Start Date	End Date
Performance Year	July 1, 2017	June 30, 2018
Baseline Year	July 1, 2004	June 30, 2005

If end date of the baseline year/period is 2004 or earlier, provide:

A brief description of when and why the water use baseline was adopted:

To remain consistent with previous STARS reports

Figures needed to determine "Weighted Campus Users":

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Number of students resident on-site	0	0
Number of employees resident on-site	0	0
Number of other individuals resident on-site and/or staffed hospital beds	416	400
Total full-time equivalent student enrollment	1,068	982.80
Full-time equivalent of employees (staff + faculty)	8,816	7,599.67
Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education	0	0
Weighted campus users	7,829	6,836.85

Potable water use per weighted campus user:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use per weighted campus user	24,996.71 Gallons	32,020.00 Gallons

Percentage reduction in potable water use per weighted campus user from baseline:

21.93

Part 2

Gross floor area of building space:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Gross floor area	3,178,234 Gross square feet	2,186,959 Gross square feet

Potable water use per unit of floor area:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use per unit of floor area	61.57 Gallons per square foot	100.10 Gallons per square foot

Percentage reduction in potable water use per unit of floor area from baseline:

38.49

Part 3

Does the institution wish to pursue Part 3 of this credit? (reductions in total water use per acre/hectare of vegetated grounds):

Yes

Area of vegetated grounds:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Vegetated grounds	61.39 Acres	57 Acres

Total water use (potable + non-potable) per unit of vegetated grounds:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Total water use per unit of vegetated grounds	0 Gallons per acre	3,840,631.58 Gallons per acre

Percentage reduction in total water use per unit of vegetated grounds from baseline:

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Optional Fields

A brief description of the institution's water-related behavior change initiatives, e.g. initiatives to shift individual attitudes and practices such as signage and competitions:

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A brief description of the institution's water recovery and reuse initiatives:

Albert Sherman Center is designed to reduce potable water consumption, by collecting and reusing non-potable water. Nonpotable water is collected from the following three sources (1) RO Reject, (2) AHU Condensate, and (3) Rainwater. The RO Reject is utilized by the vivarium cagewash equipment. The AHU Condensate and the Rainwater is sent, via a campus greywater collection system, to the power plant for use as the cooling tower make-up water. While not separately metered, modeling predicts the reduction in overall potable water use to be 3,245,956 gallons per year. NOTE: grey water collection calculations were competed by Bard, Rao, and Athanas consulting Engineers, LLC as part of the Albert Sherman Center's LEED certification process.

A brief description of the institution's initiatives to replace plumbing fixtures, fittings, appliances, equipment, and systems with water-efficient alternatives (e.g. building retrofits):

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The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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