Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
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Overall Score | 63.09 |
Liaison | Elida Erickson |
Submission Date | April 17, 2015 |
Executive Letter | Download |
University of California, Santa Cruz
OP-3: Building Operations and Maintenance
Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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1.38 / 4.00 |
John
Steward Associate Director Physical Plant Administration |
Does the institution have any building space certified under the following green building rating systems for existing buildings?:
Yes or No | |
LEED for Existing Buildings or another 4-tier rating system used by an Established Green Building Council (GBC) | Yes |
The DGNB system, Green Star Performance, or another 3-tier GBC rating system | No |
BREEAM-In Use, CASBEE for Existing Building, or another 5-tier GBC rating system | No |
Other non-GBC rating systems (e.g. BOMA BESt, Green Globes) | No |
A brief description of the green building rating system(s) used and/or a list or sample of certified buildings and ratings:
Total floor area of eligible building space (operations and maintenance):
Floor area of building space that is certified at each level under a 4-tier rating system for existing buildings used by an Established Green Building Council::
Certified Floor Area | |
Minimum Level (e.g. LEED Certified) | --- |
3rd Highest Level (e.g. LEED Silver) | 14,079.45 Square meters |
2nd Highest Level (e.g. LEED Gold) | 2,204.03 Square meters |
Highest Achievable Level (e.g. LEED Platinum) | Square meters |
Floor area of building space that is certified at each level under a 3-tier rating system for existing buildings used by an Established Green Building Council::
Certified Floor Area | |
Minimum Level | --- |
Mid-Level | --- |
Highest Achievable Level | --- |
Floor area of building space that is certified at each level under a 5-tier rating system for existing buildings used by an Established Green Building Council::
Certified Floor Area | |
Minimum Level | --- |
4th Highest Level | --- |
Mid-Level | --- |
2nd Highest Level | --- |
Highest Achievable Level | --- |
Floor area of building space that is certified at any level under other green building rating systems for existing buildings:
Floor area of building space that is maintained in accordance with formally adopted sustainable building operations and maintenance guidelines or policies, but NOT certified:
A copy of the sustainable building operations and maintenance guidelines or policies:
The date the guidelines or policies were formally adopted:
A brief description of the sustainable building operations and maintenance program and/or a list or sample of buildings covered:
A brief description of how the institution ensures compliance with sustainable building operation and maintenance guidelines and policies:
The website URL where information about the institution’s certified buildings and/or sustainable operations and maintenance guidelines or policies is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The University of Calfornia at Santa Cruz (UCSC) has had one building certified under LEED EB v2.0, that being the Engineering Sciences Building 2. This building was awarded the Silver Level Certification in 2009. Recertification before 2014 was not a university priority thus the certification has lapsed. However, sustainable maintenance operations have been continued and or improved upon since its certification.
The Master Site Plan development, and subsequent approval by the USGBC in 2013, has provided much of the framework required to sustain building operations and maintenance across all of the UCSC buildings. The policies, procedures and work instructions implemented in that effort focus upon LEED rating categories directly and include the following related to sustainable operations; Green Purchasing Practices, Irrigation metering and control, Integrated Pest Management, Green Building Education, Water Conservation, Energy Conservation, No Tobacco Product Policy, High Performance Green Cleaning, Waste Management/Recycling Programs, Environmental Air Quality Control Systems, Storm Water Quantity and Quality Management, Open Space and Wetlands Protection, Alternative Transporatation and Community Connectivity.
The building square footages are based on the University of California's "Outside Gross Square Feet" (OGSF) definition and includes buildings at 1156 High Street, 2300 Delaware, and 100 Shaffer Road. Unoccupied support structures under 100 sf were not included.
For the response to the first two questions, the SF is the total occupied SF, as the campus maintains these spaces per the guidelines in the second half of the "Eligible Buildings Criteria" definition.
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