5205230802 - Bowen Building

How does 5205230802 - Bowen Building compare with other office buildings in Washington, DC?

The latest disclosures cover 899 office buildings in Washington, DC, out of 6,870 buildings citywide. 5205230802 - Bowen Building's ENERGY STAR score of 42 compares with an average of 70 across the 774 that report a score; it scores higher than 11% of them and lower than 89%. Its site EUI of 74.9 kBtu/ft² is about 35% above the average of 55.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 7.2 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 44% above the group average of 5.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 232,462 sq ft, it is roughly in line with the average floor area of 216,135 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1922, 52 years earlier than the group's average year built (1974). 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 42 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 42 means the building performs better than about 42% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 42 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 33 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. In Washington, DC, 47% 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. 5205230802 - Bowen Building's 74.9 kBtu/ft² across 232,462 sq ft works out to about 17.4 billion Btu (5,103 MWh-equivalent) in 2020. Its source EUI of 209.6 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 5,101,017 kWh of electricity, 0 therms of natural gas and 6,770 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires 5205230802 - Bowen Building to report its energy use?

5205230802 - Bowen Building reports under the Clean and Affordable Energy Act / BEPS, the legal basis of Washington, DC's Building Energy Benchmarking program, which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2020 disclosure (source record dc:PM10523256:2020). DC's Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) require buildings below the performance standard to improve over compliance cycles (the first ends December 31, 2026; later cycles run five years), with penalties for buildings that fail to meet their pathway.