The Explorer just launched a new feature to assist local jurisdictions in understanding their existing nonresidential building stock. This new feature allows analysis of nonresidential and apartment buildings, with filters for focusing on specific building types such as offices, warehouses, restaurants, hotels, schools and more.
For policymakers in the early stages of considering benchmarking or building performance standards, this new feature is designed to streamline the process of analyzing the minimum building size threshold and covered building types for your policy. This feature in the Explorer enables jurisdiction staff to study the existing building stock by building type, size and floor space so they can quickly pinpoint where the greatest impact can occur.
You can choose to drag the slider on the interactive graph or use the drop-down selector tool to change the minimum building size included in your policy, and add or remove specific building types on the left. As you interact with the graph, you will see the pie charts in the right update based on your minimum building size selected and building types selected.
Tables below the interactive tools offer more detailed data about specific building types. Users can share different outcomes with colleagues or Council members via screenshot, or by clicking the Download button at the top right of the page and selecting Existing Buildings PDF.
The building data is directly derived from City and County Commercial Building Inventories estimated by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory whose estimates were produced using CoStar and Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey data.
If you have any questions or need further assistance, you can email us at explorer@localenergycodes.com or schedule a walkthrough. We hope you enjoy using this new feature!