Holiday Inn Express Midtown

How does Holiday Inn Express Midtown compare with other hotel buildings in Philadelphia?

The latest disclosures cover 80 hotel buildings in Philadelphia, out of 2,379 buildings citywide. Holiday Inn Express Midtown's ENERGY STAR score of 48 compares with an average of 61 across the 76 that report a score; it scores higher than 30% of them and lower than 66%. Its site EUI of 60.9 kBtu/ft² is about 32% below the average of 89.9 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group.

At 110,000 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 233,807 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1964, 20 years earlier than the group's average year built (1984). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,812 hotel buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 65 and a site EUI of 77.8 kBtu/ft².

How has Holiday Inn Express Midtown's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 4 Philadelphia disclosures for Holiday Inn Express Midtown, covering report years 2019–2022. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 29 in 2019 to 48 in 2022 (+19 points); its best year on file was 2021, at 74. Site EUI moved from 81.7 kBtu/ft² (2019) to 60.9 kBtu/ft² (2022), a 25% decrease. Reported emissions went from 708 tCO₂e to 534 tCO₂e over the same span (down 25%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 48 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 48 means the building performs better than about 48% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 48 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 27 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. In Philadelphia, 35% 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. Holiday Inn Express Midtown's 60.9 kBtu/ft² across 110,000 sq ft works out to about 6.7 billion Btu (1,963 MWh-equivalent) in 2022. Its source EUI of 147.2 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 1,534,302 kWh of electricity, 14,589 therms of natural gas and 5,233 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires Holiday Inn Express Midtown to report its energy use?

Holiday Inn Express Midtown reports under Phila. Code §9-3402 / Building Energy Performance Program, the legal basis of Philadelphia's Building Energy Benchmarking program, which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2022 disclosure (source record philadelphia:6417702:2022). Philadelphia requires commercial and multifamily buildings of 50,000+ sq ft to benchmark annually; its Building Energy Performance Program additionally requires non-residential buildings of 50,000+ sq ft to complete a tune-up or certify as high-performance every five years, with fines starting at $2,000 for non-compliance.