Public and privately-owned buildings 25,000 gross square feet and larger are covered by the energy benchmarking requirement. For benchmarking purposes a "building" is a single structure that can be individually metered and shares no interior common area OR a group of buildings that share an energy meter, have a common heating or cooling system, share interior common areas, or otherwise cannot attribute energy use to a single building.

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