Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.18
Liaison Ezra Small
Submission Date Feb. 5, 2015
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
OP-5: Indoor Air Quality

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00 Ezra Small
Sustainability Manager
Physical Plant
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Floor area of building space covered by an indoor air quality (IAQ) management program that meets the criteria for this credit:
9,343,825 Square feet

Gross floor area of building space:
9,343,825 Square feet

A brief description of the institution’s indoor air quality program(s) (including information about regular auditing or monitoring, mechanisms for occupants to register complaints, and action plans):

The department of Environmental Health and Safety has an emergency call system for unusual and dangerous smells. Complaints can also be registered on the physical plant website in which EHS will take the complaint if there is a potential health risk. Audits of buildings are regularly done. All complaints are followed up on in a timely manner.


The website URL where information about the institution’s indoor air quality program(s) is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

This data is the Sum of Net Assignable Area and comes from Tririga Space and Asset Database.


This data is the Sum of Net Assignable Area and comes from Tririga Space and Asset Database.

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