URA Group - 259 Tenth Avenue

How does URA Group - 259 Tenth 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. URA Group - 259 Tenth Avenue's ENERGY STAR score of 75 compares with an average of 64 across the 2,052 that report a score; it scores higher than 58% of them and lower than 40%. Its site EUI of 56.0 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with 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 5.5 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 14% above the group average of 4.8 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 213,237 sq ft, it is about twice the average floor area of 101,338 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1928, 25 years earlier 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 75 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 75 means the building performs better than about 75% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 75 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. URA Group - 259 Tenth Avenue's 56.0 kBtu/ft² across 213,237 sq ft works out to about 11.9 billion Btu (3,500 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 129.8 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 2,534,388 kWh of electricity, 32,944 therms of natural gas and 2,804 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires URA Group - 259 Tenth Avenue to report its energy use?

URA Group - 259 Tenth 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:4800477:2024). 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.