HAMILTON

How does HAMILTON compare with other wholesale club/supercenter buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 31 wholesale club/supercenter buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. HAMILTON's ENERGY STAR score of 10 compares with an average of 63 across the 16 that report a score; it scores higher than 13% of them and lower than 81%. Its site EUI of 99.7 kBtu/ft² is about 39% above the average of 71.5 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 9.8 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 58% above the group average of 6.2 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 135,000 sq ft, it is about 17% below the average floor area of 162,421 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1976, 14 years earlier than the group's average year built (1990). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 482 wholesale club/supercenter buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 71 and a site EUI of 79.1 kBtu/ft².

How has HAMILTON's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 3 New York City disclosures for HAMILTON, covering report years 2022–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 9 in 2022 to 10 in 2024 (+1 points); its best year on file was 2023, at 21. Site EUI moved from 108.2 kBtu/ft² (2022) to 99.7 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 8% decrease. Reported emissions went from 1,080 tCO₂e to 1,262 tCO₂e over the same span (up 17%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 10 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 10 means the building performs better than about 10% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 10 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 65 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. HAMILTON's 99.7 kBtu/ft² across 135,000 sq ft works out to about 13.5 billion Btu (3,945 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 231.6 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 2,739,195 kWh of electricity, 35,044 therms of natural gas and 2,680 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires HAMILTON to report its energy use?

HAMILTON 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:4114134:2024). 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.