Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 61.63
Liaison Leslie North
Submission Date March 1, 2024

STARS v2.2

Western Kentucky University
PRE-4: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Madeline Petty
Graduate Assistant
Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences
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Endowment size:
244,832,242 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
229.73 Acres

Locale:
Mid-size city

IECC climate zone:
4 - Mixed

Gross floor area of building space:
5,764,345 Gross square feet

Energy intensive space

Floor area of laboratory space:
171,264 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
23,153 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
70,598 Square feet

Optional Fields

Additional documentation to support the submission :
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
These operational characteristics reflect data for main campus only. Regional campuses are not included as they are located in various different locales and source energy from alternative providers. For consistency, we will focus on main campus for this submission, as we have for past submissions.

Square foot and acre area information obtained from Joshua Montgomery, WKU Planning, Design, and Construction. joshua.montgomery@wku.edu

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