Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 52.19
Liaison Christina Erickson
Submission Date June 6, 2016
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Champlain College
IC-2: Operational Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A John Caulo
Associate VP
Campus Planning & Auxiliary Services
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Endowment size:
14,613,080 US/Canadian $

Total campus area:
28 Acres

IECC climate region:
Cold

Locale:
Large town

Gross floor area of building space:
714,260 Gross square feet

Conditioned floor area:
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Floor area of laboratory space:
764 Square feet

Floor area of healthcare space:
0 Square feet

Floor area of other energy intensive space:
13,319 Square feet

Floor area of residential space:
274,071 Square feet

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

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

Burlington Electric Department is the source for most electricity
https://www.burlingtonelectric.com/about-us/what-we-do/where-we-get-our-power - this has not been updated since 2012, but now BED is 100% renewable. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/vermont-city-come-rely-100-percent-renewable-energy/

Solar PV on our Lakeside building generates ~ 47,000 KWH/year


Energy used for heating buildings, by source::
Percentage of total energy used to heat buildings (0-100)
Biomass ---
Coal ---
Electricity ---
Fuel oil ---
Geothermal 21.50
Natural gas 78.50
Other (please specify and explain below) ---

A brief description of other sources of building heating not specified above:

Geothermal usage is (as of Feb. 2015) used in 21.5% of our total GSF of campus - but we do not yet have a measurement tool to track actual production.


Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Residential space is GSF, not SF


Residential space is GSF, not SF

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