Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 51.95
Liaison Parker Long
Submission Date July 24, 2015
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

Virginia Commonwealth University
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

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

Endowment size:
1,509,430,553 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
731.50 Acres

IECC climate region:
Mixed-Humid

Locale:
Mid-size city

Gross floor area of building space:
4,819,720 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
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Floor area of laboratory space:
620,110 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
11,379.58 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
141,627 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
1,793,772 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 2.05
Coal 45.01
Geothermal 0
Hydro 1.65
Natural gas 8.95
Nuclear 41.35
Solar photovoltaic 0
Wind 0
Other (please specify and explain below) 0.07

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

This is a small percentage that Dominion Power purchases off the regional
grid that they don't know what the generation source was.


Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 0
Electricity 1.20
Fuel oil 0
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 98.80
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:
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