1710 Pier B Street

How does 1710 Pier B Street compare with other refrigerated warehouse buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 297 refrigerated warehouse buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. 1710 Pier B Street's ENERGY STAR score of 25 compares with an average of 54 across the 239 that report a score; it scores higher than 21% of them and lower than 77%. Its site EUI of 130.9 kBtu/ft² is about 82% above the average of 71.8 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 8.7 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 89% above the group average of 4.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 229,000 sq ft, it is about 21% above the average floor area of 189,524 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2016, 25 years later than the group's average year built (1991). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 472 refrigerated warehouse buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 52 and a site EUI of 76.3 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 25 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 25 means the building performs better than about 25% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 25 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 50 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. 1710 Pier B Street's 130.9 kBtu/ft² across 229,000 sq ft works out to about 30 billion Btu (8,785 MWh-equivalent) in 2019. The disclosure also reports 8,753,222 kWh of electricity and 1,159 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 1710 Pier B Street to report its energy use?

1710 Pier B 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 2019 disclosure (source record california:12442904:2019). 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.