Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	47.16
Liaison	Ryan Chabot
Submission Date	March 5, 2021

STARS v2.2

University of Central Florida
OP-21: Water Use

Status

Score

Responsible Party

1.17 / 5.00

Yara Watson Colon
Sustainability Specialist II
Sustainability Initiatives

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

Medium to High

Part 1. Reduction in potable water use per person

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

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Total water withdrawal	454,651,600 Gallons	451,509,424 Gallons

Potable water use:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use	265,281,000 Gallons	239,031,424 Gallons

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

	Start Date	End Date
Performance Period	July 1, 2018	June 30, 2019
Baseline Period	July 1, 2013	June 30, 2014

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:

Fiscal 2014 was chosen as the baseline due to the increase of sub metering and data reliability compared to previously recorded years.

Figures needed to determine "Weighted Campus Users":

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Number of students resident on-site	7,465	7,048
Number of employees resident on-site	0	0
Number of other individuals resident on-site	0	0
Total full-time equivalent student enrollment	59,355	38,508.80
Full-time equivalent of employees	6,928.60	5,674
Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education	18,581	10,801
Weighted campus users	37,643.20	26,798.35

Potable water use per weighted campus user:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use per weighted campus user	7,047.25 Gallons	8,919.63 Gallons

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

20.99

Part 2. Reduction in potable water use per unit of floor area

Gross floor area of building space:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Gross floor area	10,461,035 Gross square feet	9,782,247 Gross square feet

Potable water use per unit of floor area:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Potable water use per unit of floor area	25.36 Gallons per square foot	24.44 Gallons per square foot

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

Part 3. Reduction in total water withdrawal per unit of vegetated grounds

Area of vegetated grounds:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Vegetated grounds	1,297 Acres	1,297 Acres

Total water withdrawal per unit of vegetated grounds:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Total water withdrawal per unit of vegetated grounds	350,540.94 Gallons per acre	348,118.29 Gallons per acre

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

-0.70

Optional Fields

A brief description of the institution's water-related behavior change initiatives:

August 2017 UCF switched one of its Chilled Water Plant cooling towers from Potable Water to Reclaim water, reducing the use/waste of potable water for cooling. Cooling Tower 7 was switched over to reclaim and has re-purposed a monthly average of over 600,000 gallons of potable water use for reclaim. Over 8.2 million gallons of reclaim water used in place of potable in FY 2018/19 for Cooling Tower 7 alone, with more efforts underway to serve cooling tower makeup systems at the new DEPIV plant and eventually our main utility plant.

UES has invested in smart metering/sensor technology with leak detection and has demonstrated accuracy with confirming leaks in facilities throughout campus. Smart meters and sensors with leak notifications and interval data for modeling/trending have proven extremely helpful/effective in demonstrating use patterns, spikes, losses, and forecasting.
UCF has invested in accurate metering and district metering installations to better track and validate water consumption and production. Such efforts have validated large leaks at the UCF Football Stadium, Parking Garages, Teaching Academy, Visual Arts Building, UCF Baseball Stadium, Towers, Physical Sciences, and more, to proactively correct and secure a precious commodity.

UES has invested in annual testing of all water metering at the varying utility plants on campus and is moving forward with a campus-wide testing program starting mid-2020.

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

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A brief description of the institution's initiatives to replace plumbing fixtures, fittings, appliances, equipment, and systems with water-efficient alternatives:

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Website URL where information about the institution’s water conservation and efficiency efforts is available:

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Baseline data updated to reflect corrected records.