NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Center - Cobble Hill

How does NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Center - Cobble Hill compare with other ambulatory surgical center buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 16 ambulatory surgical center buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 189.0 kBtu/ft² is about 53% above the average of 123.8 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 13.9 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 23% above the group average of 11.3 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 163,903 sq ft, it is about 16% below the average floor area of 194,611 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2023, 56 years later than the group's average year built (1967).

What does a site EUI of 189.0 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. NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Center - Cobble Hill's 189.0 kBtu/ft² across 163,903 sq ft works out to about 31 billion Btu (9,079 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 306.4 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 2,961,476 kWh of electricity and 208,788 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Center - Cobble Hill to report its energy use?

NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Center - Cobble Hill 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:30533452:2024). 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.