Site Information Definitions

Basic Site Info

Site Name - The name by which the site will appear on lists, tables, and headers.

Address - The street address associated with the site.

City - The name of the city where the site is located.

Postal Code - The postal code where the site is located.

State / Province - The state, province, or region where the site is located.

Property Type - A category describing the site’s main function that will appear on lists, tables, and header: e.g. Office, Retail Store, Library.

Secondary Property Type - A category used to describe a site’s secondary functions.

Gross Floor Area (GFA) - The occupied area/space of the site.

Programs - A context-rich environment for understanding client/group/site data through specific visualizations, analytics, and other features. Programs provide workflows that guide users to understand data through different lenses and trends. Examples: ‘Performance Targets’, ‘Green Schools START Metrics’, ‘Building LifeCycle’.

Rentable Square Footage (RSF) - The occupied square footage of the site (same as Gross Floor Area, but restricted to units of square feet).

Construction Year - The date when the site’s initial construction was completed.

Regions / Groups / Districts - A collection of sites as designated by an administrator. The collections can be arbitrary or defined by commonalities across sites, e.g. geography, propertyType, etc.

Latitude / Longitude - The site’s exact geographic coordinates on Earth, used for visualizing site locations in Maalka maps. To find Latitude / Longitude coordinates, see: https://www.wikihow.com/Get-Latitude-and-Longitude-from-Google-Maps

External ID / External ID Value - The site’s ID as stored in an external source, such as EnergyStar Portfolio Manager. Maalka allows users to store multiple external IDs to enable data exchange with external applications

Additional Info

Emissions Region - The U.S. emissions region in which your site is located, as defined by the EPA. The region determines the emissions factors that are used to calculate a site’s Scope 2 emissions. To find a site’s emissions region, enter its postal code here: https://www.epa.gov/energy/power-profiler#/.

Last Major Renovation Year - The year when the site’s last major renovation was completed.

Possession - The ownership/occupation status of the site (e.g. Leased, Owned, etc.)

Has Thermal Storage - A yes/no status that signifies whether the site has an installed thermal storage system.

Lease End - The termination/renewal date of a leased site’s lease.

LEED Status - The site's certification level in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program.

Site Settings

Budget Currency - The monetary units that will appear on financial charts and spreadsheets within Maalka.

Electricity Budget Units - The electricity units that will appear on financial charts and spreadsheets within Maalka.

Natural Gas Budget Units - The natural gas units that will appear on financial charts and spreadsheets within Maalka.

Site Activated - A yes/no status that determines whether a site's data can be manually updated. An unactivated site will have a view-only status for all users.

Site Excluded from Analysis - A yes/no status that determines whether a site's data will be included in Global or Group/Regional analytics.

Other

Total Number of Students - The number of students registered at the school.

Total Number of Faculty - The number of employees at the school.

Lowest Grade Level - The lowest educational stage taught at the school.

Highest Grade Level - The highest educational stage taught at the school.

Primary Contact - The e-mail address of the primary contact for the site

School Website - The school's official website url.

Have you Signed the START Leadership Commitment? - The Leadership Commitment is intended to motivate school institutions to take action to address 21st century environmental challenges through integrated sustainable and energy-smart solutions: 

https://www.greenschoolsalliance.org/program/commitment