Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 71.70
Liaison Marianne Martin
Submission Date Sept. 22, 2014
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

University of Colorado Boulder
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
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Endowment size:
937,500,000 US/Canadian $

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Total campus area:
600 Acres

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IECC climate region:
Cold

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Locale:
Large town

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Gross floor area of building space:
11,048,065 Gross square feet

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Conditioned floor area:
11,048,065 Square feet

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Floor area of laboratory space:
2,332,798 Square feet

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Floor area of healthcare space:
55,738 Square feet

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Floor area of other energy intensive space:
86,321 Square feet

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Floor area of residential space:
1,287,519 Square feet

Electricity use by source::
Percentage of total electricity use (0-100)
Biomass 0.10
Coal 59.30
Geothermal 0
Hydro 1.60
Natural gas 22
Nuclear 0
Solar photovoltaic 1
Wind 16
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

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A brief description of other sources of electricity not specified above:
The above breakdown is consistent with the energy mix displayed at Xcel Energy, the electricity provider for The University of Colorado Boulder.

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
Natural gas 100
Other (please specify and explain below) 0

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A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:
The buildings are heated 100% from natural gas.

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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