LT02181 - 4050 S. 26th Street

How does LT02181 - 4050 S. 26th Street compare with other office buildings in Philadelphia?

The latest disclosures cover 212 office buildings in Philadelphia, out of 2,379 buildings citywide. LT02181 - 4050 S. 26th Street's ENERGY STAR score of 44 compares with an average of 64 across the 180 that report a score; it scores higher than 17% of them and lower than 82%. Its site EUI of 66.4 kBtu/ft² is about 15% below the average of 78.3 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group.

At 52,975 sq ft, it is about 82% below the average floor area of 292,223 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2011, 54 years later than the group's average year built (1957). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 15,264 office buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 73 and a site EUI of 59.3 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 44 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 44 means the building performs better than about 44% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 44 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 31 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. LT02181 - 4050 S. 26th Street's 66.4 kBtu/ft² across 52,975 sq ft works out to about 3.5 billion Btu (1,031 MWh-equivalent) in 2019. Its source EUI of 166.9 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 862,182 kWh of electricity, 5,766 therms of natural gas and 371 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires LT02181 - 4050 S. 26th Street to report its energy use?

LT02181 - 4050 S. 26th Street 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 2019 disclosure (source record philadelphia:3790469:2019). 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.