Salt Lake City Elevate Buildings compliance, filed for you
The Salt Lake City Commercial Building Benchmarking and Market Transparency Ordinance (Elevate Buildings) requires covered buildings to report energy and water use every year. We gather the data, check it, and file it — usually within a week.
Who’s covered
Commercial and multifamily buildings of 25,000 sq ft or more, and city buildings of 3,000 sq ft or more.
Annual deadline
May 1 for the previous calendar year.
Verification
No routine third-party verification — but the program runs its own data checks, so accuracy still matters.
Penalties
Up to $1,000 per year.
What to report
All energy and water used by the whole building — including tenant spaces — for January 1 to December 31:
- Electricity — every meter serving the building
- Natural gas
- District steam, hot or chilled water, if you have it
- Delivered fuels (oil, diesel, propane) — all delivery receipts for the year
- On-site solar production, if any
- Water — whole-building water use
Leave out backup generator fuel. Note any meters added or removed during the year.
Good to know
- Buildings with an ENERGY STAR score of 49 or lower must complete a retro-commissioning study every five years.
What we’ll need from you
- Building address, plus any utility service addresses that differ from it
- Gross floor area for the whole building and each use (office, retail, residential…), number of units and year built
- Your Salt Lake City Building ID (we can look it up)
- Utility data for the full calendar year, January 1 – December 31 (usually 13 months of bills)
- If tenants pay their own utilities: whole-building (aggregated) data from the utility, or signed tenant authorization forms
- Access to your ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager account, if you have one
- Any notice or letter you received about this law
Salt Lake City Elevate Buildings questions
When is the Salt Lake City Elevate Buildings deadline?
Does Salt Lake City Elevate Buildings apply to my building?
What happens if I miss it?
Official program information: Salt Lake City Elevate Buildings website. Requirements change — we confirm current rules for every filing.