RAC St Columba 2245 Kimball St

How does RAC St Columba 2245 Kimball St compare with other worship facility buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 370 worship facility buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. RAC St Columba 2245 Kimball St's ENERGY STAR score of 63 compares with an average of 43 across the 224 that report a score; it scores higher than 70% of them and lower than 30%. Its site EUI of 38.4 kBtu/ft² is about 39% below the average of 62.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 3.1 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 32% below the group average of 4.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 26,050 sq ft, it is about 42% below the average floor area of 44,868 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1930, 7 years earlier than the group's average year built (1937). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,035 worship facility buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 50 and a site EUI of 47.8 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 63 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 63 means the building performs better than about 63% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 63 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 12 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. RAC St Columba 2245 Kimball St's 38.4 kBtu/ft² across 26,050 sq ft works out to about 1 billion Btu (293 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 70.9 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 133,293 kWh of electricity, 5,454 therms of natural gas and 1,057 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires RAC St Columba 2245 Kimball St to report its energy use?

RAC St Columba 2245 Kimball St 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:53790093:2024). 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.