Christian Innovation Center

How does Christian Innovation Center compare with other worship facility buildings in Washington, DC?

The latest disclosures cover 88 worship facility buildings in Washington, DC, out of 6,870 buildings citywide. Christian Innovation Center's ENERGY STAR score of 30 compares with an average of 43 across the 72 that report a score; it scores higher than 31% of them and lower than 67%. Its site EUI of 58.5 kBtu/ft² is about 13% above the average of 51.9 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 3.5 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 3.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 65,153 sq ft, it is about 32% above the average floor area of 49,290 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1900, 34 years earlier than the group's average year built (1934). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,035 worship facility buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 50 and a site EUI of 47.8 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 30 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 30 means the building performs better than about 30% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 30 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 45 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. Christian Innovation Center's 58.5 kBtu/ft² across 65,153 sq ft works out to about 3.8 billion Btu (1,117 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 89.9 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 310,842 kWh of electricity, 27,479 therms of natural gas and 21 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires Christian Innovation Center to report its energy use?

Christian Innovation Center 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 2024 disclosure (source record dc:PM55295092:2024). 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.