Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.57
Liaison Jeff Spoelstra
Submission Date July 22, 2014
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

Western Michigan University
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

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

Endowment size:
222,408,499 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
1,200 Acres

IECC climate region:
Cold

Locale:
Urban fringe of mid-size city

Gross floor area of building space:
8,000,000 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
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Floor area of laboratory space:
298,791 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
0 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
0 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
1,053,978 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0.39
Coal 14.89
Geothermal 0
Hydro 0
Natural gas 81.15
Nuclear 3.16
Solar photovoltaic 0.13
Wind 0.07
Other (please specify and explain below) 0.20

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

Oil and Other Fossil fules, as reported in the 2009 RFCM Egrid Region


Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass 0
Coal 0
Electricity 0
Fuel oil 0
Geothermal 0.20
Natural gas 99.80
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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