Honest Buildings

The Existing Commercial Buildings ordinance, adopted in 2011, is ensuring property owners, managers, and tenants have unprecedented insight into the energy-efficiency strategies that will most effectively reduce their utility costs. This map shows the properties that have benchmarked energy use and met the first reporting deadline (October 1, 2011), and those that haven't. Has your property complied?

On July 26, 2010 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced an agreement on Local Law 43 requiring that a minimum of 2% biodiesel is blended into all grades of heating oil - #2, #4, and #6 beginning in October 2012. Local Law 43 also requires that the sulfur content in #4 heating oil be reduced from 3,000 parts per million to 1,500 parts per million also beginning in October 2012.

Benchmarking energy and water use allows owners, tenants and operators to better understand how their buildings are performing. By requiring annual benchmarking for certain city-owned and large privately-owned buildings, this law will give building owners and potential buyers a better understanding of a building’s energy and water consumption, eventually shifting the market towards increasingly efficient, high-performing buildings.