Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 77.43
Liaison Elida Erickson
Submission Date Feb. 28, 2022

STARS v2.2

University of California, Santa Cruz
PRE-4: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Ellen Vaughan
Water & Climate Action Manager
Sustainability Office
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Endowment size:
215,400,000 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
2,038.80 Acres

Locale:
Rural

IECC climate zone:
3 - Warm

Gross floor area of building space:
5,959,312 Gross square feet

Floor area of laboratory space:
1,237,297 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
37,854 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
0 Square feet

Additional documentation to support the submission :
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The building square footages are based on the University of California's "Outside Gross Square Feet" (OGSF) definition and includes buildings at the main campus, Westside Research Park, Silicon Valley Campus, and the Coastal Science Campus. Unoccupied support structures under 100 sq. ft. were not included.

Total Campus Area = Main Campus + Extended Campus OGSF
Main Campus = 88325000.28 sq. ft. or (2027.663 acres)
Silicon Valley Campus - 106,072
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department (EEB) - Coastal Science Campus - 115,704
UCSC Administrative Building at 2300 Delaware - 265,423
Total: 88,812,199.2 / 43,560 = 2,038.8

Due to COVID-19 severely altering resource data from 2020 and 2021, we are using 2019 as our reporting year for most quantitative data. Therefore, we are using most of the same square footage from our last 2019 report. In 2020, UCSC conducted a reassessment of our campus space, so there was no significant change from 2018 to 2019. Still there will be updates in our next reporting cycle.


The building square footages are based on the University of California's "Outside Gross Square Feet" (OGSF) definition and includes buildings at the main campus, Westside Research Park, Silicon Valley Campus, and the Coastal Science Campus. Unoccupied support structures under 100 sq. ft. were not included.

Total Campus Area = Main Campus + Extended Campus OGSF
Main Campus = 88325000.28 sq. ft. or (2027.663 acres)
Silicon Valley Campus - 106,072
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department (EEB) - Coastal Science Campus - 115,704
UCSC Administrative Building at 2300 Delaware - 265,423
Total: 88,812,199.2 / 43,560 = 2,038.8

Due to COVID-19 severely altering resource data from 2020 and 2021, we are using 2019 as our reporting year for most quantitative data. Therefore, we are using most of the same square footage from our last 2019 report. In 2020, UCSC conducted a reassessment of our campus space, so there was no significant change from 2018 to 2019. Still there will be updates in our next reporting cycle.

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