Artis Senior Living Of Potomac

How does Artis Senior Living Of Potomac compare with other residential care facility buildings in Montgomery County?

The latest disclosures cover 16 residential care facility buildings in Montgomery County, out of 1,766 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 89.5 kBtu/ft² is about 12% below the average of 101.3 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group.

At 38,613 sq ft, it is about 35% below the average floor area of 59,856 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2022, 38 years later than the group's average year built (1984). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 321 residential care facility buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 41 and a site EUI of 94.2 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 89.5 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. Artis Senior Living Of Potomac's 89.5 kBtu/ft² across 38,613 sq ft works out to about 3.5 billion Btu (1,013 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 163.1 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 447,544 kWh of electricity and 19,273 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Artis Senior Living Of Potomac to report its energy use?

Artis Senior Living Of Potomac reports under the Benchmarking Law (Bill 2-14) / BEPS (Bill 16-21), the legal basis of Montgomery County's Commercial Building Energy Benchmarking program, which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2024 disclosure (source record montgomery_county:63341793:2024). Montgomery County's BEPS (Bill 16-21; regulations approved in 2025) sets declining site-EUI standards for buildings of 25,000+ sq ft, with interim and then final standards later this decade and into the 2030s depending on building type.