6400 NE 52nd Street

How does 6400 NE 52nd Street compare with other K-12 school buildings in Kansas City?

The latest disclosures cover 124 K-12 school buildings in Kansas City, out of 1,628 buildings citywide. 6400 NE 52nd Street's ENERGY STAR score of 52 compares with an average of 65 across the 70 that report a score; it scores higher than 34% of them and lower than 64%. Its site EUI of 48.0 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with the average of 50.0 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group.

At 58,130 sq ft, it is about 42% below the average floor area of 99,723 sq ft for those buildings. Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 6,548 K-12 school buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 64 and a site EUI of 52.7 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 52 mean?

ENERGY STAR scores run from 1 to 100 and are computed by the EPA's Portfolio Manager as a percentile against similar buildings nationwide, adjusted for climate, size and use: a score of 52 means the building performs better than about 52% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 52 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 23 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. In Kansas City, 46% of scored buildings are at 75 or above.

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. 6400 NE 52nd Street's 48.0 kBtu/ft² across 58,130 sq ft works out to about 2.8 billion Btu (818 MWh-equivalent) in 2022. Its source EUI of 121.4 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 177 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires 6400 NE 52nd Street to report its energy use?

6400 NE 52nd Street reports under the Energy Empowerment Ordinance (No. 150299), the legal basis of Kansas City's Energy and Water Benchmarking program, which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2022 disclosure (source record kansas_city:19-IS-05222:2022). Kansas City's Energy Empowerment Ordinance requires annual energy and water benchmarking for commercial and multifamily buildings over 50,000 sq ft (and for city-owned buildings), with public disclosure of results.