(1400) 1400 Waterloo Road

How does (1400) 1400 Waterloo Road compare with other non-refrigerated warehouse buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 2,867 non-refrigerated warehouse buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 4.3 kBtu/ft² is about 80% below the average of 21.7 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 0.2 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 83% below the group average of 1.4 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 357,658 sq ft, it is about twice the average floor area of 173,929 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1975, 13 years earlier than the group's average year built (1988). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 4,723 non-refrigerated warehouse buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 66 and a site EUI of 26.0 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 4.3 kBtu/ft² mean?

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. (1400) 1400 Waterloo Road's 4.3 kBtu/ft² across 357,658 sq ft works out to about 1.5 billion Btu (451 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 443,042 kWh of electricity and 133 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires (1400) 1400 Waterloo Road to report its energy use?

(1400) 1400 Waterloo Road 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:26712322:2024). 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.