OP 3: Building Operations and Maintenance
4 points availableA. Credit Rationale
This credit recognizes institutions that operate and maintain their buildings in ways that protect the health of building occupants and the environment. An institution’s existing building stock is typically the largest source of campus energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. By adopting and following a sustainable operations and maintenance framework, institutions can conserve energy and water, minimize impacts on the surrounding site, reduce waste and water consumption, promote indoor environmental quality, and support markets for environmentally preferable materials while providing healthy and productive work, learning, and living spaces. While other credits also capture many of the impacts of green buildings (e.g. on campus energy consumption and water use), this credit specifically recognizes institutions that have comprehensive sustainable operations and maintenance programs and that pursue third party certification for those programs.
B. Criteria
Institution owns and operates buildings that are:
1) Certified under a green building rating system for existing buildings, e.g. LEED® for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance (O&M)
And/or
2) Operated and maintained in accordance with formally adopted sustainable operations and maintenance guidelines and policies that cover all of the following:
x Impacts on the surrounding site x Energy consumption
x Building-level energy metering
x Usage of environmentally preferable materials x Indoor environmental quality
x Water consumption
x Building-level water metering
C. Applicability
This credit applies to all institutions that have any building space that is eligible for certification under a green building rating system for existing buildings. [See “Eligible Building Space (Operations and Maintenance)” in Standards and Terms]
D. Scoring
Institutions earn the maximum of 4 points available for this credit by having all eligible building space certified at the highest achievable level under a rating system for existing buildings used by an Established Green Building Council (GBC) in the institution’s locality, e.g. LEED for Existing Buildings: O&M, certification level Platinum. Incremental points are awarded based on the percentage of building space that is certified at each level and/or maintained in accordance with sustainable operations and maintenance policies (see table below). For example, an institution that had 100 percent of its eligible building space certified at the minimum level would earn 2 points for this credit, while an institution that had 50 percent of its eligible building space certified at the minimum level would earn 1 point.
Enter values as indicated below to calculate points earned for this credit
Points will be calculated automatically when data are entered in the STARS online Reporting Tool Operations and Maintenance Level Point Value Per Level Mult iply Floor Area of Building Space Certified at Each Level Divide
Total Floor Area of Eligible Building Space Equ
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Points
Not certified but follows
guidelines or policies 1.5 ×
______
÷ ______ = Certified at any level
under a non-GBC rating system
2 ______
3-Tier GBC Rating System (e.g. DGNB) Certified at Minimum Level 2 × ______ ÷ ______ = Certified at Mid-Level 3 ______ Certified at Highest Achievable Level 4 ______
4-Tier GBC Rating System (e.g. LEED) Certified at Minimum Level 2 × ______ ÷ ______ = Certified at 3rd Highest
Level (e.g. LEED Silver) 2.5 ______ Certified at 2nd Highest
Level (e.g. LEED Gold) 3 ______ Certified at Highest
Achievable Level (e.g. LEED Platinum)
4 ______
5-Tier GBC Rating System (e.g. BREEAM, CASBEE) Certified at Minimum Level 2 × ______ ÷ ______ = Certified at 4th Highest Level 2.25 ______ Certified at Mid-Level 2.5 ______ Certified at 2nd Highest Level 3 ______ Certified at Highest Achievable Level 4 ______ Total points
Scoring Example: Buildings Operations & Maintenance
Example University owns and operates the following 5 buildings:
1) 5,000 ft2 building that is neither certified nor maintained in accordance with a sustainable building operation and maintenance policy
2) 10,000 ft2 building that is neither certified nor maintained in accordance with a sustainable building operation and maintenance policy
3) 5,000 ft2 building that is maintained in accordance with a formal sustainable building operation and maintenance policy but not certified
4) 20,000 ft2 building that is certified under LEED for Existing Buildings: O&M, certification level Silver
5) 10,000 ft2 building that is certified under LEED for Existing Buildings: O&M, certification level Platinum
Total Building Space = 5,000 ft2 + 10,000 ft2 + 5,000 ft2 + 20,000 ft2 + 10,000 ft2 = 50,000 ft2 Building space that is maintained in accordance with sustainable building operations and maintenance guidelines but not certified = 5,000 ft2
Building space that is certified LEED Silver = 20,000 ft2 Building space that is certified LEED Platinum = 10,000 ft2
Level Point Value Per Level Multiply Floor Area of Building Space Certified at Each Level Divide Total Floor Area of Eligible Building Space Equals Points
Not certified but follows guidelines or policies 1.5 × 5,000 ÷ 50,000 = 0.15 LEED for Existing
Buildings: O&M Certified
2 0 0
LEED for Existing Buildings: O&M Silver
2.5 20,000 1
LEED for Existing
Buildings: O&M Gold 3 0 0
LEED for Existing Buildings: O&M Platinum
4 10,000 0.8
E. Reporting Fields
RequiredƑ An indication of whether the institution has any building space certified under the following green building rating systems for existing buildings:
o LEED for Existing Buildings or another 4-tier rating system used by an Established Green Building Council (GBC)
o The DGNB system, Green Star Performance, or another 3-tier GBC rating system
o BREEAM-In Use, CASBEE for Existing Building, or another 5-tier GBC rating system
o Other non-GBC rating systems (e.g. BOMA BESt, Green Globes)
Ƒ Total floor area of eligible building space (operations and maintenance) (square feet/square metres)
Ƒ Floor area of building space that is maintained in accordance with formally adopted sustainable building operations and maintenance guidelines or policies, but not certified (square feet/square metres)
Ƒ An affirmation that the submitted information is accurate to the best of a responsible party’s knowledge and contact information for the responsible party. The responsible party should be a staff member, faculty member, or administrator who can respond to questions regarding the data once submitted and available to the public.
Conditional
Required if the institution is reporting any certified building space:
Ƒ Floor area of building space that is certified at each level under a green building rating system for existing buildings used by an Established Green Building Council (square feet/square metres)
Ƒ Floor area of building space that is certified under a non-GBC rating system for existing buildings (square feet/square metres)
Ƒ A brief description of the green building rating system(s) used and/or a list or sample of certified buildings and ratings
Required if the institution is reporting building space that is maintained in accordance with sustainable building operations and maintenance guidelines or policies, but not certified:
Ƒ A copy of the guidelines or policies (text or PDF upload)
Ƒ The date the guidelines or policies were formally adopted
Ƒ A brief description of the sustainable building operations and maintenance program and/or a list or sample of buildings covered
Ƒ A brief description of how the institution ensures compliance with sustainable building operation and maintenance guidelines and policies
Optional
Ƒ The website URL where information about the institution’s certified buildings and/or sustainable operations and maintenance guidelines or policies is available
Ƒ Notes about the submission
F. Measurement
Timeframe
Report on the current certification status of buildings at the time of STARS submission.
Buildings for which certification has lapsed should not be counted as certified space. Likewise, buildings for which certification is pending should not be counted as certified space; these buildings may be excluded from the calculations for this credit for up to 2 years following registration with LEED or another rating system. Finally, buildings that have been certified under a rating system that focuses on design and construction (e.g. LEED for New Construction and Major Renovations, LEED for Core & Shell, LEED for Commercial Interiors) may be excluded from the calculations for this credit for up to 5 years following the date of certification. These buildings should not be counted for this credit unless they have been certified under a green building rating system for existing buildings.
Sampling and Data Standards
Include all eligible building space (operations and maintenance) as defined in Standards and Terms that is part of the institution’s overall STARS institutional boundary when reporting for this credit. Reporting on a sample or subset of eligible building space is not allowed for this credit.
An institution may use any standard definition of floor area (e.g. ASHRAE, ANSI/BOMA, IECC), as long as it uses the same definition for both the total floor area of eligible building space and the floor area of building space that is certified and/or sustainably operated and maintained.
