12315 Burgess Avenue

How does 12315 Burgess Avenue compare with other senior living community buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 542 senior living community buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. 12315 Burgess Avenue's ENERGY STAR score of 26 compares with an average of 81 across the 517 that report a score; it scores higher than 5% of them and lower than 95%. Its site EUI of 85.7 kBtu/ft² is about 66% above the average of 51.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 5.5 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 73% above the group average of 3.2 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 61,934 sq ft, it is about 41% below the average floor area of 104,319 sq ft for those buildings. Its 1999 construction date is close to the group's average year built (1998). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,181 senior living community buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 71 and a site EUI of 73.6 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 26 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 26 means the building performs better than about 26% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 26 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 49 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. 12315 Burgess Avenue's 85.7 kBtu/ft² across 61,934 sq ft works out to about 5.3 billion Btu (1,556 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 804,411 kWh of electricity and 30,196 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 12315 Burgess Avenue to report its energy use?

12315 Burgess Avenue 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:63133192:2024). 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.