Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance (BERDO)

The Boston Archive

Dataset

Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance (BERDO)

Amended in 2021, the Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance (BERDO) aims to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions generated by large buildings in Boston. BERDO gives the City of Boston authority to set emissions standards for large existing buildings, including…

Dataset

Publisher: Environment Department
Spatial coverage: all
Fields: 23
Keywords: BERDO, EPA, GHG, buildings, climate change, energy, environment, portfolio manager, water
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/building-emissions-reduction-and-disclosure-ordinance

Artifacts

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Column dictionary

The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.

Column	Type	Description
`Property Name`	text
`Reported`	text
`Property Type`	text
`Address`	text
`ZIP`	text
`Gross Area (sq ft)`	text
`Site EUI (kBTU/sf)`	text
`Energy Star Score`	text
`Energy Star Certified`	text
`Property Uses`	text
`Year Built`	text
`GHG Emissions (MTCO2e)`	text
`GHG Intensity (kgCO2/sf)`	text
`Total Site Energy (kBTU)`	text
`% Electricity`	text
`% Gas`	text
`% Steam`	text
`Water Intensity (gal/sf)`	text
`Onsite Renewable (kWh)`	text
`User Submitted Info`	text
`User Submitted Link`	text
`Tax Parcel`	text
`Years Reported`	text

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/af55d9c04eaea97bd5dfbccd8864f85c/building-emissions-reduction-and-disclosure-ordinance-columns.json — 1903 bytes, SHA-256 af55d9c04eaea97b…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Questions this record answers

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Who publishes Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance (BERDO), and under what license?

Environment Department publishes it. The archive accessioned it under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain), and holds the publisher's own column dictionary verbatim rather than reworded into the archive's vocabulary — how a publisher names a column is evidence about the publisher.