RJJ - 400 Caswell Avenue

How does RJJ - 400 Caswell Avenue compare with other K-12 school buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 2,301 K-12 school buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. RJJ - 400 Caswell Avenue's ENERGY STAR score of 71 compares with an average of 64 across the 2,052 that report a score; it scores higher than 52% of them and lower than 47%. Its site EUI of 43.7 kBtu/ft² is about 29% below the average of 61.3 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 3.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 31% below the group average of 4.8 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 63,470 sq ft, it is about 37% below the average floor area of 101,338 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1987, 34 years later than the group's average year built (1954). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 6,548 K-12 school buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 64 and a site EUI of 52.7 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 71 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 71 means the building performs better than about 71% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 71 falls in band B — above median (70–84). It sits 4 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. RJJ - 400 Caswell Avenue's 43.7 kBtu/ft² across 63,470 sq ft works out to about 2.8 billion Btu (813 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 74.5 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 303,647 kWh of electricity, 17,392 therms of natural gas and 1,750 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires RJJ - 400 Caswell Avenue to report its energy use?

RJJ - 400 Caswell Avenue 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:59373592:2024). 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.