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PERFORMANCE
2017/2018 Report Update
PROGRAM
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CONTENTS
I.Executive Summary ................................................................. 2
II.Introduction............................................................................... 3
III.Building Performance Ordinance ........................................... 4
What's New in 2018 ............................................................... 5
IV.2018 Rating & Reporting Results .......................................... 7
Building Characteristics ......................................................... 8
Energy Performance ............................................................... 9
Emissions Performance ......................................................... 12
How Boulder Compare? .......................................................... 14
V.Next Steps ................................................................................. 18
I.EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
2018 RATING & REPORTING HIGHLIGHTS
Compliance
324
buildings
representing nearly 29 million
square feet (sf) were subject to the
Building Performance Ordinance in
2018.
62%
represented
These buildings represent 62
percent of all commercial and
industrial sf in the City of Boulder.
The program achieved 99
percent compliance in 2018.
Energy & Emissions
After exemptions and data
cleaning, as well as the removal
of large industrial campuses,1
analysis was conducted on
295 building energy reports,
representing 19 million sf.
The median energy use intensity
(EUI) of 78 kBTU/sf-year and the
median ENERGY STAR® score of 71
indicate Boulder’s C&I sector has
improved its energy use since 2016.
The total emissions reported by the
295 buildings represent 36 percent of
the C&I emissions footprint based on
the 2017 community greenhouse
gas inventory.
295 78 Median
Site EUI
(kBTU/sf)36% of Commercial and
Industrial (C&I)
Emissions
building energy
reports
1 Large industrial campuses were not included in data analysis due to their custom rating and reporting requirements.
99%
compliance
rate
Median
ENERGY
STAR® score71
3%reduction in
energy use
Consistently reporting buildings have reduced overall site energy use by 1
percent over 3 years of rating and reporting and 3 percent over the past year.
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2 Prior to the adoption of the Building Performance Ordinance, city staff conducted substantial outreach efforts including stakeholder
engagement and working groups within the community. Please see bouldercolorado.gov/lead/boulder-building-performance-background
for more information.
II. INTRODUCTION
Boulder has long understood the importance of local climate action.
Boulder’s residents and businesses were among the first in the country
to implement programs like the Climate Action Plan Tax (CAP Tax) and a
host of other energy efficiency and conservation programs. In support of
these community energy and climate priorities, the Boulder City Council
adopted the Boulder Building Performance Ordinance (BPO) in October 2015.2 These commercial
and industrial (C&I) building rating and reporting and energy efficiency requirements move beyond
the current voluntary programs to require actions that reduce energy use and improve the quality of
Boulder’s building stock.
Energy consumption from the C&I sector accounts for over 50 percent of the City of Boulder’s
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions footprint. The ordinance was adopted with the objectives of
increasing awareness of building energy performance, realizing cost effective energy savings,
informing design of future programs and driving market transformation. Further, the ordinance is
a key initiative toward achieving the City of Boulder’s Climate Commitment goal of an 80 percent
reduction in community GHG emissions by 2050, which was adopted by City Council in Dec. 2016.
Learn more about the city's climate commitment goals: BoulderClimate.com
Track progress on key city goals: bouldercolorado.gov/boulder-measures
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55%
OF BOULDER’S
TOTAL GREENHOUSE
GAS EMISSIONS
IN 2018.
C&I BUILDING
ENERGY USE
ACCOUNTED FOR
The Boulder Building Performance Ordinance affects privately-owned C&I buildings 20,000 square
feet (sf) and larger, newly constructed3 C&I buildings 10,000 sf and larger and city-owned buildings
5,000 sf and larger.
Large industrial or manufacturing campuses
where multiple buildings are served by a central
plant or single utility meter are also subject to
the Building Performance Ordinance. However,
due to their unique nature, these campuses are
subject to custom requirements.4
Boulder is one of 25 cities in the country to
adopt such a policy.5 Though many of the
elements of Boulder’s policy are similar to
those implemented by other cities, Boulder’s
policy is one of a select few that moves beyond
building energy performance awareness and
requires efficiency actions to achieve building
performance improvement.
III. BUILDING
PERFORMANCE ORDINANCE
3Any commercial or industrial building for which an initial building permit was issued on or after Jan. 31, 2014.
4For more information on these custom requirements see bouldercolorado.gov/sustainability/boulder-building-performance-large-indus-
trial-campus
5As of Nov. 2018; reported by www.buildingrating.org
Ordinance Objectives
• Saving money on utility bills through
cost-effective efficiency measures;
• Helping building owners understand and
manage their building's energy use;
• Educating tenants and real estate
professionals about building energy
performance;
• Informing future energy programs and
services for the C&I sector;
• Reducing GHG emissions; and
• Improving the quality of Boulder's C&I
building stock.
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The ordinance requires affected building owners to
carry out the following actions:
1. Annually rate and report (R&R) whole-building energy use, which will be publicly
disclosed after a grace period;
2. Perform energy assessments (EA) every 10 years;
3. Perform retrocommissioning (RCx) every 10 years and implement cost effective
RCx measures within two years of the study; and
4. Perform one-time lighting upgrades.
For more information on the background of the Building Performance Ordinance or the program
resources, requirements and timelines, please see
www.BoulderBuildingPerformance.com.
What’s New in 2018
Additional Buildings Triggered
The 2018 reporting year was the second phase for
annual rating and reporting. While the previous two
years required the largest buildings to report energy
use, in 2018, buildings 30,000 sf and larger were
required to begin annual rating and reporting. This
next phase resulted in an additional 159 buildings
reporting annual energy use to the city,
representing over 12 million sf.
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
Number of Buildings Impacted
2018 2018
Buildings 50,000 sf
and larger begin
annual reporting
Buildings 30,000 sf
and larger begin
annual reporting
Buildings 20,000 sf
and larger begin
annual reporting
2016
2018
2020
2016 2018
Number of Buildings Impacted
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Helpdesk Launched
A full-time helpdesk was launched in 2018 to assist building owners with using Portfolio Manager,
connecting with the utility’s automatic data upload and applying for exemptions or deadline
extensions. Nearly 500 individual correspondences were tracked in this new system in 2018.
Along with launching the helpdesk, the city implemented a new data management system in
2018. This system better tracks ownership and compliance, as well as conducts quality control on
submitted energy use and issues a report card to individual building owners. This system also feeds
the Building Performance Map, where energy data will be publicly disclosed beginning 2019.
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IV. 2018 RATING AND
REPORTING RESULTS
By June 1, 2018, 324 buildings were required to rate and report energy use to the city,
representing 62 percent of all C&I sf in the City of Boulder. Nine percent of these 324 buildings
required to report were excluded from analysis for various reasons, including exemptions, data
quality issues and late submissions. The following analysis represents energy reports from 295
buildings, including one voluntary submission, or about 19 million sf. See Figure 1 for more
information on the compliance breakout of buildings reporting in 2018.
FIGURE 1. 2018 COMPLIANCE BREAKOUT
1
7
295
7
119
120
48
1
22
3
15
4
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TOTAL BUILDINGS REQUIRED
TO REPORT
Violation
Exemption
Included in Analysis
New Construction Buildings
Buildings > 50,000 sf
Buildings > 30,000 sf
City-owned Buildings
Voluntary Reporter > 20,000 sf
Excluded from Analysis
Late Submissions
Data Quality Flags
Large Industrial Campuses
324
Building Characteristics
While additional buildings were added to the program in the 2018 reporting year, most sectors
remained steady in the number of buildings reporting energy use. Office saw the largest increase in
the number of buildings, from 39 buildings in 2016 to 123 in 2018.
As shown in Figure 2, buildings with a primary space use of office remained the largest reporting
sector in 2018 at 36 percent. The Other category includes libraries, fire stations, automobile
dealerships, and other space types with fewer buildings.
FIGURE 2. SQUARE FOOTAGE BREAKOUT OF BUILDINGS IN ANALYSIS
Office
Other
Industrial/Manufacturing
Lodging
Retail
Warehouse/Distribution Center
Parking Garage
Supermarket
Fitness Center
Healthcare
36%
16%
11%
2%
1%
4%
5%
5%
8%
11%
NUMBER OF BUILDINGS IN ANALYSIS INCREASED:
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1432016 2018 295
Energy
Performance
OVERALL, THE CITY OF BOULDER SAW A
6% DECREASE IN THE MEDIAN EUI FROM
2016 TO 2018. A low EUI generally signifies
good energy performance in a building. However, certain property types, such as manufacturing or
data centers, are energy intensive in their processes and will always have higher EUIs. Therefore,
it is important when comparing EUIs to do so after normalizing by building type and by climate.
Fortunately, the standard reporting tool, Portfolio Manager7, normalizes this data automatically to
provide a more accurate comparison.
Table 1 shows the 2018 reporting results by building phase. The subset of buildings that began
reporting in 2018 (buildings 30,000 sf and larger) saw similar, yet slightly less efficient, metrics to
the larger buildings that have been reporting since 2016. While city-owned buildings have a lower
average EUI than privately-owned C&I buildings, they are also performing less efficiently when
looking at the average ENERGY STAR® score. New construction buildings are far surpassing all other
reporting buildings in both average EUI and average ENERGY STAR® score. This high performance is
to be expected given the stringency of Boulder’s Energy Conservation Code.
WHAT IS
AN EUI?
Energy use intensity (EUI) is
the annual energy used in
a building as a function of
square footage. This metric is
expressed in thousand British
therman units (kBtu) per
square foot of gross floor area.
BOULDER’S MEDIAN EUI6 DECREASED:
2016: 83 kBtu/sf-yr
2018: 78 kBtu/sf-yr
6Site EUI was used for analysis purposes, which represents the annual amount of all energy the property consumes onsite, as reported
on utility bills.
7A free online software developed by the U.S. EPA to help buildings benchmark, verify and report energy use and property information
(www.EnergyStar.gov/PortfolioManager).
Building Phase Average EUI
(kBTU/sf-yr)
Average ENERGY
STAR® Score
Number of
Buildings
City-owned buildings 99 56 48
Buildings 50,000 sf and larger 107 67 119
Buildings 30,000 sf and larger 108 62 120
New Construction 10,000 sf and larger 49 86 8
Table 1. 2018 Reporting Results by Building Phase
Figure 3 on the next page shows the year over year trends in both average EUI and number of
buildings reporting by sector.
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stingly, despite the substantial increase in the number of Intere buildings reporting, the Office sector
average EUI decreased 23 percent from 2016 to 2018 reporting. The Healthcare and Lodging
sectors also saw decreases in average EUI. This trend is likely due to both the addition of less
energy intensive new construction buildings as well as improved energy performance among the
largest buildings as described further in in Buildings Consistently Reporting below.
There was a wide range of EUIs reported in each sector in 2018, demonstrating the diversity of
energy intensive activities even within building sectors. Figure 4 shows the EUI ranges by sector.
FIGURE 3. AVERAGE WEIGHTED EUI AND NUMBER OF BUILDINGS
REPORTING BY SECTOR OVER TIME
2016 EUI(kBtu/sf-yr)2017 EUI(kBtu/sf-yr)2018 EUI(kBtu/sf-yr)2016 BuildingReports 2017 EUI BuildingReports 2018 BuildingReports
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
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50
100
150
200
250
300 Number of Building EnergyReportsEnergyUseIntensity (EUI)kBtu/sf-yr2016 EUI (kBtu/sf-yr) 2017 EUI (kBtu/sf-yr) 2018 EUI (kBtu/sf-yr) 2016 BuildingReports 2017 EUI BuildingReports 2018 BuildingReports
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
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100
150
200
250
300 Number of Building EnergyReportsEnergyUseIntensity (EUI)kBtu/sf-yr2016 EUI(kBtu/sf-yr)2017 EUI(kBtu/sf-yr)2018 EUI(kBtu/sf-yr) 2016 Building Reports 2017 EUI Building Reports 2018 Building Reports
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100
200
300
400
500
600
700
Healthcare Industrial/
Manufacturing
Lodging Office Retail Supermarket Warehouse/
Distribution CenterSite EUI (kBtu/sf-yr)Lodging Office Retail Warehouse /
Distribution Center
Industrial /
Manufacturing
Healthcare Supermarket
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FIGURE 4. SITE EUI RANGES BY SECTOR REPORTED IN 2018
While the industrial and manufacturing sector EUI range makes sense given the activities
represented, the range in the office sector is a bit more surprising and may have more to do with
secondary space uses such as data centers and restaurants located within office buildings.
Buildings that reported an EUI below the building type median or an ENERGY STAR® score lower
than the national median of 50 are likely to have the greatest opportunities to improve energy
performance. Similarly, often the largest savings potential is found in buildings with EUIs in the two
highest quartiles shown below.
Buildings Consistently Reporting
Since reporting began in 2016, 139 buildings have reported each year. These buildings have
reduced electricity use by 11 percent over three years of rating and reporting. However, the building
set also increased natural gas consumption by nine percent over that same time period, netting a
one percent decrease in overall site energy use over three years of reporting.8 In the past year, this
same building set achieved a three percent decrease in total site energy use. This greater energy
reduction in the recent year may be due to these largest buildings starting to complete energy
efficiency upgrades or may be due to proactive efforts to complete the upcoming required energy
assessments, due by June 2019. Figure 5 shows the energy use trends over time for these buildings
consistently reporting.
FIGURE 5. ENERGY CONSUMPTION BY FUEL TYPE AND
YEAR FOR BUILDINGS REPORTING EACH YEAR
8It is important to note, due to the unanticipated frequency of third-party natural gas in Boulder in the first year of the program, it is likely
natural gas consumption is underrepresented in 2016 energy reports, and a less drastic increase in consumption has actually occurred
over the three year period. The C&I sector as a whole only saw a four percent increase in natural gas consumption in that time period, as
calculated in the community-wide GHG inventory.
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200,000,000
400,000,000
600,000,000
800,000,000
1,000,000,000
1,200,000,000
1,400,000,000
2016 2017 2018Energy Consumption (kBtu)Electricity NaturalGas Total Site Energy UseElectricity Natural Gas Total Site Energy
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Emissions
Performance
The total GHG emissions generated
by the 295 reporting buildings was
308,291 metric tons of carbon
dioxide-equivalent (MT CO2e), as
reported in 2018 energy reports. This
is approximately 36 percent of the
C&I sectors GHG emissions footprint
based on the City of Boulder’s 2017
community GHG inventory. Not
surprisingly, office buildings represent
the largest share of emissions (Figure
6), as that sector also represents the
largest percentage of total square
footage. However, the proportion of
emissions and square footage do not
always align. For example, supermarkets
represent only one percent of square
footage, but four percent of emissions.
Parking garages represent four percent
of square footage but less than one
percent of emissions.
.5%
2%
3%
4%
8%
8%
9%
16%
18%
32%
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CITY BUILDING
PERFORMANCE
City buildings 5,000 sf and larger have been
required to report energy use each year
beginning 2016. A total of 48 city-owned
buildings reported energy use in 2018.
These buildings represent a variety of space
uses including offices, recreation centers,
water and wastewater treatment facilities,
libraries, fire stations and maintenance
facilities. Overall city building energy
consumption has remained relatively flat,
increasing less than one percent from
2016. However, the average EUI decreased
just over one percent over that same three-
year period as additional square footage
was added. To address energy use in the
city building portfolio, the city is making the
following efforts:
•The city has a goal of reducing city
operational emissions 80 percent by
2030 from a 2008 baseline and is
exploring the value of setting individual
building EUI targets.
•Given the age of the city-owned building
stock and with most cost-effective efforts
implemented from energy performance
contracting efforts, the city is currently
completing a building stock analysis
to determine a long-term strategy for
improving the city portfolio.
•In 2018, the city completed an extensive
deep energy retrofit on the Brenton
building, which has resulted in a near net
zero facility.
•Iris Center received ENERGY STAR®
certification in 2018.
•18 city facilities have onsite solar and
the city is exploring additional onsite
solar opportunities, including bulk
purchasing.
City energy consumption is available on the
building performance map. More information
on energy efficiency at city facilities is
available at: bouldercolorado.gov/public-
works/energy-efficiency-upgrades-at-city-
facilities-energy-performance-contract
Parking Garage
Fitness Center
Warehouse/Distribution Center
Supermarket
Healthcare
Lodging
Retail
other
Industrial/Manufacturing
Office
FIGURE 6. GHG EMISSIONS GENERATED BY SECTOR
OFFICE SECTOR
BREAKOUT
Office buildings represent 36 percent of total square footage reporting
in 2018. Overall the sector seems to be performing consistently, if not
slightly better, in 2018 despite a significant increase in the number of
buildings reporting. Here is a snapshot of the largest reporting sector
as compared to the first year of reporting in 2016:
Private C&I Office
Average Score: 63
Number of Office
buildings reporting
increased
215%,
from 39 to 123.
There is a very wide range of EUIs reported by office
buildings, likely due to the frequency of secondary,
higher energy intensive space uses in office buildings,
such as restaurants and data centers. The majority
(53%) of office buildings report an EUI of 85 kBtu/sf-yr
or less, which is the average EUI for Boulder’s
climate zone.
Office building square
footage increased
significantly, from 2
million sf to just
under
7 million sf.
The average ENERGY
STAR ® score for Office
buildings improved
three points, from
65 to 68.
The weighted average
EUI for office buildings
decreased
23%,
from 114 kBtu/sf-yr
to 88 kBtu/sf-yr.
GHG emissions from office buildings represent 12%
of the C&I sector GHG emissions reporting in the 2017
community GHG emissions inventory.
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FIGURE 6. GHG EMISSIONS GENERATED BY SECTOR
9For the list of building types eligible for ENERGY STAR® score, see: energystar.
gov/buildings/facility-owners-and-managers/existing-buildings/use-portfo-
lio-manager/identify-your-property-type-0
10Receiving certification would also exempt the building from the Building Per-
formance Ordinance efficiency requirements. More information on scores and
certification are available at: energystar.gov/buildings/about-us/energy-star-cer-
tification
Large Industrial Campus Reporting
Large Industrial Campuses (LICs) are subject to custom rating and reporting requirements given
the energy-intensive activities occurring at these locations, including the publishing of an annual
narrative that describes the energy efficiency activities, goals and achievements each year. The three
reporting LICs are:
The annual public narratives for these LICs can be accessed at:
bouldercolorado.gov/sustainability/boulder-building-performance-large-industrial-campus
How Boulder Compares
While the overall EUI trends shows a decrease in the amount of energy consumed in various sectors
across the City of Boulder, such as healthcare, office and retail, this decrease does not necessarily
mean that City of Boulder buildings are performing comparably to similar buildings across the state,
region or country. To better understand how a building is operating compared to a larger dataset of
similar buildings, many cities use the 1-100 ENERGY STAR® score generated from Portfolio Manager.
ENERGY STAR® Portfolio Manager assigns a score from 1 to 100 for those building types where
a large enough national dataset is available to set scores (a higher score represents a high
performing, energy efficient building).9 This score compares a building’s performance to similar
buildings nationwide, normalizing for type and climate. A
score of 50 means your building is performing better than
50 percent of like buildings. Buildings that receive a score
of 75 or higher (i.e. perform better than 75 percent of like
buildings) may be eligible for ENERGY STAR® certification.10
Shown in Figure 7, an additional 104 buildings received
ENERGY STAR® scores in the 2018 reporting year, from 59
in 2016 to 163 in 2018. Of those buildings that submitted
energy reports in 2016, 30 had scores eligible for ENERGY
STAR ® Certification. In 2018, this increased to 78 buildings.
Of those 78 buildings with a score of 75 or above, 18
received ENERGY STAR® Certification in order to exempt the
building from the ordinance efficiency requirements.
Boulder’s Median
ENERGY STAR®
Score Increased:
Overall the City
of Boulder saw a 1
percent increase
in the median
ENERGY STAR®
score from 70 to 71.
7170
2016 2018
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Number of BuildingsFIGURE 7. NUMBER OF BUILDINGS RECEIVING ENERGY STAR® SCORES
0-25 26-50 51-75 76-100
ENERGY STAR® Score
40
80
120
160
Looking within Boulder’s city limits, the number of ENERGY STAR® Certifications has
increased since the initiation of the Building Performance Ordinance. This increase in
certifications is most likely due to ordinance-affected buildings demonstrating high enough
performance to receive an exemption from ordinance efficiency requirements. However,
not all of these certifications represent buildings subject to the ordinance in 2018, which
may demonstrate building owners and tenants see an increasing value in certifying their
high performing spaces regardless of whether the building is subject to the ordinance.
0-25 26-50 51-75 76-100
2016 2018
Eligible for
ENERGY STAR® Certification
FIGURE 8. TREND OF CITY-WIDE ENERGY STAR® CERTIFICATIONS ISSUED
2015 2016 2017 2018
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City of Boulder ENERGY STAR®
Certification Trend (Number of Certifications)
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FIGURE 9. AVERAGE ENERGY STAR® SCORE BY SECTOR
SupermarketRetailHealthcare Warehouse/
Distribution
Center
OfficeLodging
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
47 48
36
50
59
63 65 68 69
40
ENERGY STAR® Score2017 20182016
88 90
64
73
56
70 68
74
With more buildings receiving scores in 2018, most building sectors saw a decrease in the average
score of the sector (see Figure 9). The retail sector and healthcare sector saw significant decreases
in average sector scores with the addition of new buildings, whereas lodging saw an increase. This
means that while buildings may be improving performance in the City of Boulder overall based on
EUI trends, some sectors are still operating less efficiently than similar buildings nationwide.
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To better understand how Boulder buildings are performing, the overall EUI by building type11 was
compared to the most recently calculated average EUI by building type for the Boulder climate
region. These EUIs were calculated by the Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey
(CBECS)12, which is a national sample survey that collects information on the U.S. commercial
building stock.
As shown in Figure 10, while most of Boulder’s building sectors are performing comparably or more
efficiently than the average, the retail sector again stands out as less efficient than the average,
which means there is likely performance improvement opportunities in this sector.
FIGURE 10. BOULDER AND REGIONAL EUI COMPARISON BY BUILDING TYPE
11EUI by building type was calculated by summing all energy consumed by each building type and dividing by the summed square foot-
age of that building type.
12Table C10. “Consumption and gross energy intensity by climate region for sum of major fuels, 2012.” Released May 2016. Column:
“Energy intensity for sum of major fuels (thousand Btu/square foot).” Region: “Very cold/cold.” https://www.eia.gov/consumption/com-
mercial/reports/2012/energyusage/
When evaluating data currently available from other cities implementing similar policies to Boulder’s
Building Performance Ordinance, Boulder’s building stock is performing comparably to these other
cities despite differences in the number of buildings impacted, as shown in Table 2.
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191
156
84 89 104
212
167
115
85 74
38
0
50
100
150
200
250
Supermarket Healthcare Lodging Office Retail Warehouse/Distribution
Center
Boulder EUI Average Against Regional Average
Boulder Avg EUI (2018)Regional EUI data (CBECS)
167
115
85 74
38
89 88 110
66
191
212 224
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Compliance
Rate
Median ENERGY STAR®
Score (1-100)
Median Site EUI
(kBtu/sf-year)
Buildings Subject to
Reporting
Boulder (2018)99%71 78 324
Minneapolis (2016)13 Not Available 75 80 434
Chicago (2017)14 85%64 80 2780
Seattle (2016)15 99%75 40.5 3,352
Denver (2018)16 90%73 67 1,161
Cambridge (2016)17 91%65 (Avg)82.4 1,117
Kansas City, MO (2017)18 64.5%74 Not Available 503
Table 2. City-Reported Benchmarking Results
Ordinance
Requirement
City Buildings
≥ 5,000 sf
Existing Buildings
≥ 50,000 sf
New Buildings
≥ 10,000 sf
Existing
Buildings
≥ 30,000 sf
Existing
Buildings
≥ 20,000 sf
Large Industrial
Campuses
Rating & Reporting 2016 2016 2018 2020 2016
Public Disclosure 2019 2019 2021 2023 2016
Energy Assessments 2019 2019 2021 2023 2019
Lighting Upgrades 2021 2021 2023 2025 2025
Retro-commissioning 2021 2021 2023 2025 N/A
Implement Cost
Effective Measures 2023 2023 2025 2027 2021
NEXT STEPS
The program timeline brings several deadlines in 2019.
13Accessed online at: minneapolismn.gov/www/groups/public/@health/documents/webcontent/wcmsp-208686.pdf
14Accessed online at: cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/progs/env/EnergyBenchmark/2017_Chicago_Energy_Benchmarking_Report.pdf
15Accessed online at: seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/OSE/Seattle%20Energy%20Benchmarking%20Analysis%202016%20for%20web.pdf
16Accessed online at: denvergov.org/content/dam/denvergov/Portals/771/documents/EQ/Energize%20Denver/Denver%202018%20Benchmark-
ing%20Report%20Final.pdf
17Accessed online at: cambridgema.gov/CDD/zoninganddevelopment/sustainablebldgs/~/media/73C667F5FE0644BE9963329DD2DF0B74.
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18Accessed online at: drive.google.com/file/d/1eCpmY8ZxPlafahc1IHUW7DvR9oyjBTeY/view
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3 yrs
2 yrs
2 yrs
Rating & Reporting
Energy Assessments
Lighting and RCx
Implement Cost Effective
RCx Measures
Data Publication Beginning 2019
The City of Boulder elected to publicly disclose building-specific energy metrics
following a two-year grace period. This means in summer 2019, following the reporting
deadline for 2018 calendar year data, the energy metrics for existing buildings
50,000 sf and larger and new construction buildings 10,000 sf and larger will be
publicly disclosed on the building performance map now available at
www.BoulderBuildingPerformance.com
2019 Energy Assessment Deadline
2019 also brings the deadline for all larger buildings to complete an energy
assessment. All buildings subject to the Building Performance Ordinance must not
only annually rate and report whole-building energy use, but must also undertake
efficiency actions on the deadlines below:
For more information on the Boulder Building Performance
Ordinance please see www.BoulderBuildingPerformance.com
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