Midway Unit #180 Old West Mattress 11440 E 56Th Ave

How does Midway Unit #180 Old West Mattress 11440 E 56Th Ave compare with other manufacturing/industrial plant buildings in Denver?

The latest disclosures cover 240 manufacturing/industrial plant buildings in Denver, out of 3,287 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 100.4 kBtu/ft² is about half of the average of 212.2 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group.

At 66,878 sq ft, it is about 15% below the average floor area of 79,006 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1968, 4 years earlier than the group's average year built (1972). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 2,372 manufacturing/industrial plant buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 67 and a site EUI of 126.3 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 100.4 kBtu/ft² mean?

Site energy-use intensity (EUI) is the energy a building uses on site in a year divided by its floor area, in thousand Btu per square foot — lower is more efficient. Midway Unit #180 Old West Mattress 11440 E 56Th Ave's 100.4 kBtu/ft² across 66,878 sq ft works out to about 6.7 billion Btu (1,968 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. The disclosure also reports 403,561 kWh of electricity and 53,356 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Midway Unit #180 Old West Mattress 11440 E 56Th Ave to report its energy use?

Midway Unit #180 Old West Mattress 11440 E 56Th Ave reports under the Energize Denver Building Performance Policy, the legal basis of Denver's Energize Denver Benchmarking program, which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2023 disclosure (source record denver:6463:2023). Energize Denver sets energy-use (EUI) targets for buildings of 25,000+ sq ft — for most buildings an interim target in 2028 and a final target in 2032 — with civil penalties of roughly $0.15–0.35 per kBtu over target for non-compliance.