ACHS - 1745-1801 SOUTH Ave.

How does ACHS - 1745-1801 SOUTH Ave. compare with other retail store buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 525 retail store buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. ACHS - 1745-1801 SOUTH Ave.'s ENERGY STAR score of 70 compares with an average of 62 across the 270 that report a score; it scores higher than 49% of them and lower than 50%. Its site EUI of 47.6 kBtu/ft² is about 37% below the average of 75.0 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 5.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 18% below the group average of 6.5 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 254,926 sq ft, it is about 213% above the average floor area of 81,524 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1990, 28 years later than the group's average year built (1963). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,025 retail store buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 73 and a site EUI of 57.7 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 70 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 70 means the building performs better than about 70% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 70 falls in band B — above median (70–84). It sits 5 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. ACHS - 1745-1801 SOUTH Ave.'s 47.6 kBtu/ft² across 254,926 sq ft works out to about 12.1 billion Btu (3,556 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 129.5 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 3,395,372 kWh of electricity and 5,536 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires ACHS - 1745-1801 SOUTH Ave. to report its energy use?

ACHS - 1745-1801 SOUTH Ave. 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:57513969:2024). 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.