Kensington Healthcare Center

How does Kensington Healthcare Center compare with other senior living community buildings in Montgomery County?

The latest disclosures cover 39 senior living community buildings in Montgomery County, out of 1,766 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 0.0 kBtu/ft² is about 100% below the average of 79.0 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group.

At 64,665 sq ft, it is about 59% below the average floor area of 157,924 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1969, 25 years earlier than the group's average year built (1994). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,181 senior living community buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 71 and a site EUI of 73.6 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 0.0 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. Kensington Healthcare Center's 0.0 kBtu/ft² across 64,665 sq ft works out to about 0 billion Btu (0 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 0.0 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is different. The disclosure also reports 1,123,244 kWh of electricity and 0 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Kensington Healthcare Center to report its energy use?

Kensington Healthcare Center 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:64623893:2024). 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.