Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 71.86
Liaison Elida Erickson
Submission Date March 23, 2016
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

University of California, Santa Cruz
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

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

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Endowment size:
151,000,000 US/Canadian $

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Total campus area:
861.98 Hectares

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IECC climate region:
Marine

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Locale:
Rural

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Gross floor area of building space:
514,838.88 Gross square meters

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Conditioned floor area:
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Floor area of laboratory space:
105,748.70 Square meters

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Floor area of healthcare space:
3,126.37 Square meters

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Floor area of other energy intensive space:
0 Square meters

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Floor area of residential space:
179,896.53 Square meters

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0.40
Coal 0.20
Geothermal 0.94
Hydro 5.55
Natural gas 80.90
Nuclear 1.40
Solar photovoltaic 6.50
Wind 3.70
Other (please specify and explain below) 0.41

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

Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal ---
Electricity ---
Fuel oil ---
Geothermal ---
Natural gas 100
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

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A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The building square footages are based on the University of California's "Outside Gross Square Feet" (OGSF) definition and includes buildings at the Main Campus (including Laureate Court), 2300 Delaware, and the Coastal Science Campus. Unoccupied support structures under 100 sf were not included.

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