Official:Amending Section 9-3402 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Benchmarking Energy and Water Use", to expand the buildings for which the benchmarking and reporting of energy and water usage data is required, all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Reynolds Brown
Introduced: January 22, 2015
Signed: March 5, 2015
: Committee on the Environment
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill requires larger commercial buildings in Philadelphia to track and report their energy and water usage data. The threshold for this requirement is expanded from 50,000 square feet to include any building with indoor floor space of that size or more, unless exempted by the Office of Sustainability.
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