Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 75.37
Liaison Suchi Daniels
Submission Date Jan. 14, 2014
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STARS v1.2

University of South Florida (Tampa)
OP-T2-48: Weather-Informed Irrigation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Suchi Urs Daniels, RA, LEED AP BD + C,
Quality Assurance Program Manager/Project Manager
Facilities Planning
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Does the institution use weather data or weather sensors to automatically adjust irrigation practices?:
Yes

A brief description of how weather data or sensors are used:

Adding these to the USF campus was one of the many success of the Green Building Subcommittee as noted in the link below. The Hunter Rain-Clik™ Rain Sensors was installed as listed in accomplishment for Landscape & Irrigation Rain sensor irrigation controls. These sensors stop irrigation for the very common rainfall events here in Florida.


The website URL where information about the practice is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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