N001674-BROOKLYN NY - South Building

How does N001674-BROOKLYN NY - South Building 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. N001674-BROOKLYN NY - South Building's ENERGY STAR score of 80 compares with an average of 63 across the 16 that report a score; it scores higher than 50% of them and lower than 38%. Its site EUI of 53.4 kBtu/ft² is about 25% below the average of 71.5 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 5.1 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 17% below the group average of 6.2 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 79,689 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 162,421 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2004, 14 years later 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.

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 80 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 80 means the building performs better than about 80% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 80 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. N001674-BROOKLYN NY - South Building's 53.4 kBtu/ft² across 79,689 sq ft works out to about 4.3 billion Btu (1,247 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 120.7 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 862,144 kWh of electricity and 13,125 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires N001674-BROOKLYN NY - South Building to report its energy use?

N001674-BROOKLYN NY - South Building 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:54939392:2024). 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.