Maxwell Kates Inc.: 527 WEST 27 STREET

How does Maxwell Kates Inc.: 527 WEST 27 STREET compare with other other buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 124 other buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 42.7 kBtu/ft² is about 62% below the average of 111.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 3.2 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 63% below the group average of 8.7 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 83,114 sq ft, it is about 63% below the average floor area of 223,266 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2015, 52 years later than the group's average year built (1963). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,327 other buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 60 and a site EUI of 63.3 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 42.7 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. Maxwell Kates Inc.: 527 WEST 27 STREET's 42.7 kBtu/ft² across 83,114 sq ft works out to about 3.5 billion Btu (1,040 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 70.6 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 358,730 kWh of electricity, 23,280 therms of natural gas and 4,372 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires Maxwell Kates Inc.: 527 WEST 27 STREET to report its energy use?

Maxwell Kates Inc.: 527 WEST 27 STREET 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:54058895:2024). 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.