Industry City - Bldg - 22 - 26

How does Industry City - Bldg - 22 - 26 compare with other manufacturing/industrial plant buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 592 manufacturing/industrial plant buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 20.9 kBtu/ft² is about 80% below the average of 102.7 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 1.7 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 78% below the group average of 7.7 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 1,053,813 sq ft, it is about 1101% above the average floor area of 87,732 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2001, 52 years later than the group's average year built (1949). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 2,372 manufacturing/industrial plant buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 67 and a site EUI of 126.3 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 20.9 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. Industry City - Bldg - 22 - 26's 20.9 kBtu/ft² across 1,053,813 sq ft works out to about 22 billion Btu (6,455 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 39.4 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 3,081,295 kWh of electricity and 115,183 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Industry City - Bldg - 22 - 26 to report its energy use?

Industry City - Bldg - 22 - 26 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:59013395:2024). 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.