Overall Rating Platinum
Overall Score 85.50
Liaison Breeana Sylvas
Submission Date Feb. 28, 2022

STARS v2.2

University of California, Merced
PRE-3: Institutional Boundary

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Breeana Sylvas
Assistant Director
Sustainability
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Institution type:
Doctoral/Research

Institutional control:
Public

A brief description of the institution’s main campus and other aspects of the institutional boundary used to complete this report:
UC Merced existing campus has twenty-nine (29) buildings as well as offsite leased facilities that make up a total of 2.8 million gross square feet. The campus as part of the university's 2020 project development added 13 new buildings which made up 1.2 million gross square feet.

Which of the following features are present on campus and which are included within the institutional boundary?:
Present? Included?
Agricultural school No No
Medical school No No
Other professional school with labs or clinics (e.g. dental, nursing, pharmacy, public health, veterinary) No No
Museum No No
Satellite campus No No
Farm larger than 2 hectares or 5 acres No No
Agricultural experiment station larger than 2 hectares or 5 acres No No
Hospital No No

The rationale for excluding any features that are present from the institutional boundary:
The total campus mixed use land and building footprint is 274 acres. The total university area is 1026 acres and includes mixed use, reserve, environmental research land as well as active and passive open spaces.

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