Welcome to the S.a.M.E Lab Homepage!

Simulated and Measured Environments Lab @ New York Institute of Technology School of Architecture & Design

Hello School of Data!

We are happy to be able to present some compacted data sets that reinterpret the data available from the city HERE

For city related buildings, this report simplifies the data: NYC Energy Benchmarking Report

A few notes:

These data sets can include multiple years worth of data for one BIN number. Be mindful when searching in the dataset that "averages" can be influenced by this!

We are a small research group at a university excited about this data! This data is full of holes and irregularities that we could not fix, so act carefully!

Please let us know if you want to talk more about these issues, we love collaborating!

Our five datasets are available via the below link.

Here is what you will see when you unzip the folder:

Description:

1. Simplified Data with our Building Performance Relevant Columns (see below)
2. Simplified Data with our Building Performance Relevant Columns (see below) with informative Pivot Tables
3. The Complete Data Set, for safe keeping!
4. The Complete Data Set, with irrelevant rows hidden but still available.
5. The Complete Data Set, parsed by year for quick look ups.

HERE is the download link, good until March 2027!

Building Performance Relevant Columns:

We have selected the relevant columns from the data set that would most relate to studying the Building Performance of a specific building

BIN: building identification number

BBL: code for property borough, block and lot

sf: square feet, as in floor area of a building

Gross area: total occupied area of a building (in sf)

Btu: about the amount of energy in a single lit match

Site energy use (kBtu): total amount of energy used

Site EUI (kBtu/sf): energy use intensity, amount of energy used per sf on site

Source EUI (kBtu/sf): energy use also considering energy it takes to get the energy to the site

GHG: green house gas emissions, usually CO2 in context of building energy use

tCO2e: metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions, allows for comparison of other GHG sources

occupancy type: category of building use, like apartment or office; different types have different CO2 limits/sf.

Energy Star Rating

Other Research Tracks:

Weather Station: G4054

Interior Ed Hall Data

Live Website Link

Quick Guides

Downloading Building Data From NYC OpenData to prepare for 3D Printing

Site EUI Data

Important Links:

View our Site: Live Website Link

View our actual Github: Github Page with Data Downloads

Cohabitating Information about the Lab here:

NYIT ART AND ARCHITECTURE LIB GUIDE: