Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 57.39
Liaison Tina Woolston
Submission Date Nov. 12, 2015
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STARS v2.0

Tufts University
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

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Endowment size:
1,386,696,958 US/Canadian $

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Total campus area:
786 Acres

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IECC climate region:
Cold

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Locale:
Urban fringe of large city

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Gross floor area of building space:
4,777,135 Gross square feet

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Conditioned floor area:
4,623,344 Square feet

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Floor area of laboratory space:
914,963 Square feet

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Floor area of healthcare space:
149,334 Square feet

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Floor area of other energy intensive space:
406,588 Square feet

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Floor area of residential space:
1,130,423 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0.20
Coal 2.80
Geothermal 0
Hydro 27.30
Natural gas 39.60
Nuclear 15.80
Solar photovoltaic 0.20
Wind 6.40
Other (please specify and explain below) 7.70

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A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
Oil - 3.5% Municipal trash - 4.0% Other - 0.2% Total - 7.7% From Electricity Facts, TransCanada Power Marketing Ltd. Massachusetts Jan 2015 for 7/1/13 to 6/30/14

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 3
Geothermal 0
Natural gas 80.42
Other (please specify and explain below) 16.63

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A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
Propane - 0.79% Purchased steam - 15.85%

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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