Adams Row Condominiums - Whole Community

How does Adams Row Condominiums - Whole Community compare with other multifamily housing buildings in Washington, DC?

The latest disclosures cover 1,799 multifamily housing buildings in Washington, DC, out of 6,870 buildings citywide. Adams Row Condominiums - Whole Community's ENERGY STAR score of 59 compares with an average of 72 across the 1,618 that report a score; it scores higher than 26% of them and lower than 73%. Its site EUI of 57.8 kBtu/ft² is about 13% above the average of 51.1 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 5.5 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 45% above the group average of 3.8 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 62,648 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 136,346 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2004, 39 years later than the group's average year built (1965). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 59,945 multifamily housing buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 70 and a site EUI of 59.0 kBtu/ft².

How has Adams Row Condominiums - Whole Community's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 4 Washington, DC disclosures for Adams Row Condominiums - Whole Community, covering report years 2013–2016. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 64 in 2014 to 59 in 2016 (-5 points); its best year on file was 2014, at 64. Site EUI moved from 67.6 kBtu/ft² (2013) to 57.8 kBtu/ft² (2016), a 14% decrease. Reported emissions went from 434 tCO₂e to 343 tCO₂e over the same span (down 21%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 59 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 59 means the building performs better than about 59% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 59 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 16 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. Adams Row Condominiums - Whole Community's 57.8 kBtu/ft² across 62,648 sq ft works out to about 3.6 billion Btu (1,061 MWh-equivalent) in 2016. Its source EUI of 142.4 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 717,854 kWh of electricity, 11,709 therms of natural gas and 2,340 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires Adams Row Condominiums - Whole Community to report its energy use?

Adams Row Condominiums - Whole Community 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 2016 disclosure (source record dc:PM4005378:2016). 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.