Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 37.45
Liaison Cody Friend
Submission Date May 10, 2014
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University of Nebraska at Omaha
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Endowment size:
54,192,013.45 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
405.79 Acres

IECC climate region:
Cold

Locale:
Mid-size city

Gross floor area of building space:
2,846,481 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
2,846,481 Square feet

Floor area of laboratory space:
285,147 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
0 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
510,726 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
443,463 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 57.60
Geothermal 0
Hydro 0
Natural gas 18.60
Nuclear 13.90
Solar photovoltaic 0
Wind 6.20
Other (please specify and explain below) 0.20

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:

Landfill Methane Gas capture and energy generation.


Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 0
Electricity 5.40
Fuel oil 0.30
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 94.30
Other (please specify and explain below) 0

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

To achieve the energy used for heating buildings, UNO used the best possible data granularity and calculated it in this way. Mammel Hall is the only building with electric heat. UNO used total MMBtu of natural gas and fuel oil for the campus and added the MMBtu of electricity used at Mammel Hall as the best representation of energy for heating. Percentages of that total were then derived for natural gas, fuel oil, and Mammel Hall electricity.

Campus size was calculated using the Dodge and Pacific Campuses and the Glacier Creek Prairie Preserve. Residence Halls were not included in this figure, as utility data was not easily auditable as of this submission. Subsequent submissions will include the 443,463 gsf of residential space. Other university property was not included for this submission.

Energy Intensive space includes that designated as laboratories, broadcasting, food service, and science space, using Marshall and Swift categories.


To achieve the energy used for heating buildings, UNO used the best possible data granularity and calculated it in this way. Mammel Hall is the only building with electric heat. UNO used total MMBtu of natural gas and fuel oil for the campus and added the MMBtu of electricity used at Mammel Hall as the best representation of energy for heating. Percentages of that total were then derived for natural gas, fuel oil, and Mammel Hall electricity.

Campus size was calculated using the Dodge and Pacific Campuses and the Glacier Creek Prairie Preserve. Residence Halls were not included in this figure, as utility data was not easily auditable as of this submission. Subsequent submissions will include the 443,463 gsf of residential space. Other university property was not included for this submission.

Energy Intensive space includes that designated as laboratories, broadcasting, food service, and science space, using Marshall and Swift categories.

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