Autumn Lake Healthcare At Oakview

How does Autumn Lake Healthcare At Oakview 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 95.7 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with the average of 101.3 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group.

At 51,279 sq ft, it is about 14% below the average floor area of 59,856 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1980, 4 years earlier 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 95.7 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. Autumn Lake Healthcare At Oakview's 95.7 kBtu/ft² across 51,279 sq ft works out to about 4.9 billion Btu (1,438 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 211.5 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 953,172 kWh of electricity and 16,542 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Autumn Lake Healthcare At Oakview to report its energy use?

Autumn Lake Healthcare At Oakview 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:35057794:2024). 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.