3525 White Plains Road

How does 3525 White Plains Road compare with other medical office buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 188 medical office buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. 3525 White Plains Road's ENERGY STAR score of 65 compares with an average of 65 across the 147 that report a score; it scores higher than 38% of them and lower than 61%. Its site EUI of 71.4 kBtu/ft² is about 27% below the average of 97.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 6.5 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 26% below the group average of 8.8 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 30,998 sq ft, it is about 59% below the average floor area of 75,019 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2015, 50 years later than the group's average year built (1965). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,266 medical office buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 64 and a site EUI of 92.2 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 65 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 65 means the building performs better than about 65% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 65 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 10 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. In New York City, 43% 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. 3525 White Plains Road's 71.4 kBtu/ft² across 30,998 sq ft works out to about 2.2 billion Btu (649 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 152.8 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 404,226 kWh of electricity, 8,338 therms of natural gas and 1,994 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires 3525 White Plains Road to report its energy use?

3525 White Plains Road reports under Local Law 84 (LL84), the legal basis of New York City's Energy and Water Data Disclosure program, which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2024 disclosure (source record nyc:54427292:2024). Under Local Law 97, buildings over 25,000 sq ft face carbon caps with fines of $268 per metric ton of CO₂e over the limit, phasing in from 2024.