1500 East 223Rd Street

How does 1500 East 223Rd Street compare with other manufacturing/industrial plant buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 982 manufacturing/industrial plant buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 56.3 kBtu/ft² is about 56% below the average of 127.7 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 3.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about half of the group average of 7.4 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 59,856 sq ft, it is about 56% below the average floor area of 135,409 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1978, 4 years earlier than the group's average year built (1982). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 2,372 manufacturing/industrial plant buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 67 and a site EUI of 126.3 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 56.3 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. 1500 East 223Rd Street's 56.3 kBtu/ft² across 59,856 sq ft works out to about 3.4 billion Btu (988 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 800,991 kWh of electricity and 5,925 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 1500 East 223Rd Street to report its energy use?

1500 East 223Rd Street 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:55192192:2024). 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.