Artel 535

How does Artel 535 compare with other hotel buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 970 hotel buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. Artel 535's ENERGY STAR score of 84 compares with an average of 50 across the 853 that report a score; it scores higher than 84% of them and lower than 15%. Its site EUI of 69.2 kBtu/ft² is about 27% below the average of 94.3 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 5.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 28% below the group average of 7.8 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 48,632 sq ft, it is about 65% below the average floor area of 137,256 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2022, 47 years later than the group's average year built (1975). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,812 hotel buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 65 and a site EUI of 77.8 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 84 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 84 means the building performs better than about 84% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 84 falls in band B — above median (70–84). Scores of 75 or higher meet the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification; certification itself is a separate, verified application that the disclosure does not record. 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. Artel 535's 69.2 kBtu/ft² across 48,632 sq ft works out to about 3.4 billion Btu (986 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. Its source EUI of 134.4 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 502,373 kWh of electricity, 16,525 therms of natural gas and 1,974 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires Artel 535 to report its energy use?

Artel 535 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 2023 disclosure (source record nyc:33978984:2023). 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.