1177 S Beverly Drive (Residence Inn - Beverly Hills, Ca)

How does 1177 S Beverly Drive (Residence Inn - Beverly Hills, Ca) compare with other hotel buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 1,599 hotel buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. 1177 S Beverly Drive (Residence Inn - Beverly Hills, Ca)'s ENERGY STAR score of 4 compares with an average of 74 across the 1,525 that report a score; it scores higher than 3% of them and lower than 97%. Its site EUI of 93.9 kBtu/ft² is about 43% above the average of 65.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 5.9 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 48% above the group average of 4.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 111,051 sq ft, it is about 34% below the average floor area of 167,786 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1969, 19 years earlier than the group's average year built (1988). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,812 hotel buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 65 and a site EUI of 77.8 kBtu/ft².

How has 1177 S Beverly Drive (Residence Inn - Beverly Hills, Ca)'s energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 2 California disclosures for 1177 S Beverly Drive (Residence Inn - Beverly Hills, Ca), covering report years 2018–2019. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 5 in 2018 to 4 in 2019 (-1 points); its best year on file was 2018, at 5. Site EUI moved from 91.9 kBtu/ft² (2018) to 93.9 kBtu/ft² (2019), an 2% increase. Reported emissions went from 659 tCO₂e to 659 tCO₂e over the same span (up 0%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 4 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 4 means the building performs better than about 4% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 4 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 71 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. 1177 S Beverly Drive (Residence Inn - Beverly Hills, Ca)'s 93.9 kBtu/ft² across 111,051 sq ft works out to about 10.4 billion Btu (3,056 MWh-equivalent) in 2019. The disclosure also reports 1,758,327 kWh of electricity and 44,532 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 1177 S Beverly Drive (Residence Inn - Beverly Hills, Ca) to report its energy use?

1177 S Beverly Drive (Residence Inn - Beverly Hills, Ca) 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 2019 disclosure (source record california:6316501:2019). 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.