Building Energy Benchmarking Is the Comparison of Whole-Building Energy Use Relative To

WATER BENCHMARKING EXAMPLES

The following are several examples of benchmarking water consumption using actual PHA residences.

The first is a 1,824 square foot, single-family detached home in Easton, PA. It has its own clothes washer and the PHA pays the water bill. The next is a rowhouse development of 30 buildings in Carbondale, PA, containing a total of 76 units. All units have their own laundry hook-ups. The residents pay for their own water consumption. The next is a development of 55 walk-up residential buildings in Tampa, FL, containing a total of 76 units. The residents pay their own water bills and almost all units (478 out of 487) have their own laundry hook-ups. The next is another single-family detached home; this one is a 1,056-square-foot house in Lake Linden, MI. It has its own clothes washer and the resident pays the water bill. The next is classified as a development of four walk-up residential buildings in Haines, OR, containing a total of eight units. The residents pay their own water bills and each of the eight units have their own laundry hook-ups. The next is a single rowhouse building in Sioux Center, IA, containing six units, none of which have laundry hook-ups. The residents pay for their water consumption. The next is a nine-story elevator building of 220 residential units in Nashville, TN. The residents pay their own water bills and, because there is a central laundry, all 220 units have central laundry access.