Miami, FL · Overview
Building Efficiency 305 (BE305)
The City of Miami requires annual energy benchmarking for buildings 20,000 sq ft and larger, filed via ESPM data request, with retro-commissioning required every roughly 5-10 years phasing in from about 2028. Miami-Dade County runs a related but distinct BE305 program at the county level.
Verified against primary sources
Filing deadline
Jun 30
Annually, for the prior calendar year
- City fee
- No city fee on file.
- Files via
- ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager — you respond to the jurisdiction’s data request.
Filing facts
What the registry knows
- Who’s covered
- Buildings larger than 20,000 sq ft.
- Deadline
- Jun 30, annually
June 30 is the confirmed standing annual deadline — the ordinance sets initial cohort deadlines (200k+: June 30, 2023; 100-199k: Oct 1, 2023; 50-99k: Oct 1, 2024; 20-49k: Oct 1, 2025) with subsequent reports due by June 30 of each year thereafter. Note the CITY program itself is branded "Building Efficiency 305 (BE305)"; Miami-Dade County separately runs its own, distinct BE305 program.
- Files via
- ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager — you respond to the jurisdiction’s data request.
- City fee
- No city fee on file.
- If you miss it
- $250 per day for a first-time offense; $500 per day for repeat violations, via referral to the Code Enforcement Board under City Code ch. 2 art. X.
How to comply
Step by step
Confirm the building is 20,000 sq ft or larger within Miami city limits, and separately check whether Miami-Dade County's BE305 program also applies.
Benchmark the building in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager with a "Miami" Standard ID and confirm the current-year deadline with the city (June 30 is the most commonly reported date, though first-year cohorts used Oct 1).
Track the building's retro-commissioning cycle, which phases in starting around 2028 on a roughly 5-10 year cadence.
FAQ
Common questions
Is the Miami city ordinance the same as Miami-Dade County's BE305?
No — they are parallel programs at different jurisdictional levels; a building inside the City of Miami may owe both, and the underlying research did not have enough confirmed detail on BE305 to model it as a separate registry entry yet.
Why does the Miami deadline show two different dates?
Early compliance cohorts were given an Oct 1 deadline when the ordinance first phased in, while June 30 is the more commonly cited standing deadline — which one currently applies was not confirmed in the source research.
Want Building Efficiency 305 (BE305) handled for you?
Run the compliance checker to confirm this program actually applies to your building, then join our early-access waitlist — we’re onboarding buildings city by city and will email you the moment we’re filing in your jurisdiction.
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