Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 67.63
Liaison Konrad Schlarbaum
Submission Date March 1, 2024

STARS v2.2

University of Colorado Colorado Springs
PRE-4: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Mariness Falcon
Design and Construction Project Manager
Facilities Services
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Endowment size:
2,096,060,717 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
541 Acres

Locale:
Large city

IECC climate zone:
5 - Cool

Gross floor area of building space:
2,251,013 Gross square feet

Energy intensive space

Floor area of laboratory space:
46,039.15 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
0 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
35,701.71 Square feet

Optional Fields

Additional documentation to support the submission :
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
This data was gathered from the fall semester of 2023.

$2.1B endowment is for the entire CU system in 2023. $88 million is for the UCCS campus. The CU Foundation makes all investments for all four campuses.

Our campus uses the code 250 to identify all spaces that are used to conduct research. The number used for laboratory space is specific to spaces with equipment since some using code 250 are office spaces.
Laboratory Space (with equipment only) – 46,039.15 sf
Laboratory spaces (with no equipment) – 5,745 sf

We only use code 540 for our healthcare spaces to represent our campus space usage best. No spaces are categorized under code 800.
The codes are from the Space Use Codes in the U.S. Department of Education's Postsecondary Education Facilities Inventory and Classification Manual.

Energy Intensive –
Food Production..........22,496.90 sf
Bookstore................11,548.00 sf
Engineering Data Center.....442.29 sf
OCSE Data Center...........1,214.52 sf
TOTAL.....................35,701.71

UCCS excluded sf for parking garages, leased buildings, and outdoor fields in the total floor area of existing buildings.

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