1040 Kinau
Multifamily Housing in Honolulu, HI · 1040 Kinau St, Honolulu
At a glance
1040 Kinau is a 39,000-square-foot multifamily housing building at 1040 Kinau St, Honolulu in Honolulu, Hawaii, built in 1974. In its 2025 Honolulu benchmarking disclosure it reported a site energy-use intensity of 39.4 kBtu/ft² and 224 tCO₂e of greenhouse-gas emissions.
Ordinance 22-17 (City & County of Honolulu) · reporting year 2025
Benchmarking record
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| ENERGY STAR score | — |
| Site EUI | 39.4 kBtu/ft² |
| Source EUI | — |
| GHG emissions | 224 tCO₂e |
| GHG intensity | — |
| Electricity | 285,004 kWh |
| Natural gas | 5,639 therms |
| Water use | 4,109 kgal |
| Gross floor area | 39,000 sq ft |
| Source record | honolulu:04QFJ1966556252:2025 |
Compliance context
Ordinance 22-17 (City & County of Honolulu)
Honolulu's Ordinance 22-17 requires commercial buildings over 25,000 sq ft on Oʻahu to benchmark annually, with public disclosure of results.
Ownership
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Location
- Address
- 1040 Kinau St, Honolulu
- City
- Honolulu
- State
- Hawaii
Within ~1 km
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How does 1040 Kinau compare with other multifamily housing buildings in Honolulu?
The latest disclosures cover 378 multifamily housing buildings in Honolulu, out of 799 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 39.4 kBtu/ft² is about 40% above the average of 28.2 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group.
At 39,000 sq ft, it is about 76% below the average floor area of 159,294 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1974, 5 years earlier than the group's average year built (1979). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 59,945 multifamily housing buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 70 and a site EUI of 59.0 kBtu/ft².
What does a site EUI of 39.4 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. 1040 Kinau's 39.4 kBtu/ft² across 39,000 sq ft works out to about 1.5 billion Btu (450 MWh-equivalent) in 2025. The disclosure also reports 285,004 kWh of electricity, 5,639 therms of natural gas and 4,109 thousand gallons of water for the year.
Which law requires 1040 Kinau to report its energy use?
1040 Kinau reports under Ordinance 22-17 (City & County of Honolulu), the legal basis of Honolulu's Better Buildings Benchmarking program, which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2025 disclosure (source record honolulu:04QFJ1966556252:2025). Honolulu's Ordinance 22-17 requires commercial buildings over 25,000 sq ft on Oʻahu to benchmark annually, with public disclosure of results.
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Frequently asked questions
What is 1040 Kinau's energy grade?
1040 Kinau did not report an ENERGY STAR score in its 2025 disclosure, but its site energy-use intensity was 39.4 kBtu/ft².
How much energy does 1040 Kinau use?
Its 2025 site energy-use intensity was 39.4 kBtu/ft² across 39,000 sq ft, including 285,004 kWh of electricity and 5,639 therms of natural gas.
What are 1040 Kinau's carbon emissions?
1040 Kinau reported 224 tCO₂e of greenhouse-gas emissions for 2025.
Where is 1040 Kinau?
1040 Kinau is at 1040 Kinau St, Honolulu, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
How big is 1040 Kinau and when was it built?
1040 Kinau has 39,000 sq ft of gross floor area, as reported in its 2025 disclosure. The disclosure lists 1974 as its year built. It is classed as multifamily housing.
Is 1040 Kinau covered by Ordinance 22-17 (City & County of Honolulu)?
Yes — it appears in the 2025 Better Buildings Benchmarking disclosure, which lists the buildings reporting under Ordinance 22-17 (City & County of Honolulu).
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About this data
Source: Better Buildings Benchmarking (Ordinance 22-17 (City & County of Honolulu)), as published July 9, 2026. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.
Cite as: BuildingCensus, “1040 Kinau, Honolulu, Hawaii — 2025 benchmarking disclosure”, https://buildingcensus.com/buildings/honolulu/1040-kinau-9fdf1291 (data as of July 9, 2026).