Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 45.35
Liaison Wesley Enterline
Submission Date April 22, 2015
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STARS v2.0

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

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

Endowment size:
US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
163.49 Hectares

IECC climate region:
Cold

Locale:
Small town

Gross floor area of building space:
280,336.47 Gross square meters

Conditioned floor area:
278,248.02 Square meters

Floor area of laboratory space:
13,496.39 Square meters

Floor area of healthcare space:
545.15 Square meters

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
9,141.75 Square meters

Floor area of residential space:
90,937.64 Square meters

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

A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
0.8% is Biofuels

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

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
---

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Steam used for heating is all sourced from natural gas cogeneration plant located outside of the City of Whitewater and provided to campus through a combination of above-ground and below-ground steam lines. On-campus generation is limited to emergency backup steam with heating plant boilers and electricity with diesel/natural gas emergency generators. Energy intensive spaces were determined using classification codes for Class Labs (210), Open Labs (220), and Research Labs (250) to determine the laboratory space. While some of these areas can probably be better defined in the future, using these relatively broad classifications ensured that all spaces (like computer labs) were included under a use code that might also include some less energy-intensive space. Service area classifications commonly used for storage or support rooms (215,225,255) were omitted. A similar determination was used to include food service areas and associated service areas (630, 635). It is not easily identifiable which specific areas might have higher energy use without a more detailed assessment of each individual space. All central computer or telecommunications spaces (710/715) were included. All greenhouse space was included (580). Health care space includes all areas in the 800 series not easily identifiable as low-energy areas (like waiting rooms).

Data source(s) and notes about the submission

Steam used for heating is all sourced from natural gas cogeneration plant located outside of the City of Whitewater and provided to campus through a combination of above-ground and below-ground steam lines. On-campus generation is limited to emergency backup steam with heating plant boilers and electricity with diesel/natural gas emergency generators.

Energy intensive spaces were determined using classification codes for Class Labs (210), Open Labs (220), and Research Labs (250) to determine the laboratory space. While some of these areas can probably be better defined in the future, using these relatively broad classifications ensured that all spaces (like computer labs) were included under a use code that might also include some less energy-intensive space. Service area classifications commonly used for storage or support rooms (215,225,255) were omitted.

A similar determination was used to include food service areas and associated service areas (630, 635). It is not easily identifiable which specific areas might have higher energy use without a more detailed assessment of each individual space.

All central computer or telecommunications spaces (710/715) were included. All greenhouse space was included (580).

Health care space includes all areas in the 800 series not easily identifiable as low-energy areas (like waiting rooms).

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