1 Auto Center Drive

How does 1 Auto Center Drive compare with other vehicle dealership buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 141 vehicle dealership buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. 1 Auto Center Drive's ENERGY STAR score of 47 compares with an average of 68 across the 122 that report a score; it scores higher than 26% of them and lower than 73%. Its site EUI of 33.5 kBtu/ft² is about 32% below the average of 49.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 2.2 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 32% below the group average of 3.2 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 77,151 sq ft, it is about 14% below the average floor area of 89,700 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1986, 4 years later than the group's average year built (1982). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 318 vehicle dealership buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 57 and a site EUI of 62.8 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 47 mean?

ENERGY STAR scores run from 1 to 100 and are computed by the EPA's Portfolio Manager as a percentile against similar buildings nationwide, adjusted for climate, size and use: a score of 47 means the building performs better than about 47% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 47 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 28 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. In California, 65% of scored buildings are at 75 or above.

Site energy-use intensity (EUI) is the energy a building uses on site in a year divided by its floor area, in thousand Btu per square foot — lower is more efficient. 1 Auto Center Drive's 33.5 kBtu/ft² across 77,151 sq ft works out to about 2.6 billion Btu (757 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 716,207 kWh of electricity and 875 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 1 Auto Center Drive to report its energy use?

1 Auto Center Drive reports under AB 802 (Public Resources Code §25402.10), the legal basis of California's Building Energy Benchmarking Program (statewide), which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2024 disclosure (source record california:37406883:2024). AB 802 requires every California commercial building over 50,000 sq ft to report energy use to the CEC annually; the CEC publicly discloses the results statewide.