Asbury Methodist Trott/Edwards/Mund Apt/Rosborough Cc - Multifamily Housing

How does Asbury Methodist Trott/Edwards/Mund Apt/Rosborough Cc - Multifamily Housing compare with other multifamily housing buildings in Montgomery County?

The latest disclosures cover 553 multifamily housing buildings in Montgomery County, out of 1,766 buildings citywide. Asbury Methodist Trott/Edwards/Mund Apt/Rosborough Cc - Multifamily Housing's ENERGY STAR score of 72 compares with an average of 80 across the 514 that report a score; it scores higher than 24% of them and lower than 75%. Its site EUI of 32.1 kBtu/ft² is about 26% below the average of 43.2 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group.

At 504,307 sq ft, it is about 154% above the average floor area of 198,668 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1972, 17 years earlier than the group's average year built (1989). 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 an ENERGY STAR score of 72 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 72 means the building performs better than about 72% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 72 falls in band B — above median (70–84). It sits 3 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. In Montgomery County, 53% 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. Asbury Methodist Trott/Edwards/Mund Apt/Rosborough Cc - Multifamily Housing's 32.1 kBtu/ft² across 504,307 sq ft works out to about 16.2 billion Btu (4,744 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 89.8 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 4,737,100 kWh of electricity and 392 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Asbury Methodist Trott/Edwards/Mund Apt/Rosborough Cc - Multifamily Housing to report its energy use?

Asbury Methodist Trott/Edwards/Mund Apt/Rosborough Cc - Multifamily Housing 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:25756156:2024). 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.