1955 San Pablo Avenue

How does 1955 San Pablo Avenue compare with other multifamily housing buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 10,630 multifamily housing buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. 1955 San Pablo Avenue's ENERGY STAR score of 1 compares with an average of 82 across the 9,612 that report a score; it scores higher than 0% of them and lower than 99%. Its site EUI of 896.1 kBtu/ft² is about 2505% above the average of 34.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 47.7 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 2173% above the group average of 2.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 61,500 sq ft, it is about 59% below the average floor area of 150,919 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1917, 71 years earlier than the group's average year built (1988). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 59,945 multifamily housing buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 70 and a site EUI of 59.0 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 1 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: 1 is the bottom of the scale. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 1 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 74 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. 1955 San Pablo Avenue's 896.1 kBtu/ft² across 61,500 sq ft works out to about 55.1 billion Btu (16,151 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 203,722 kWh of electricity and 544,120 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 1955 San Pablo Avenue to report its energy use?

1955 San Pablo 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:65198392:2024). 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.