24434-Brookdale San Juan Capistrano

How does 24434-Brookdale San Juan Capistrano compare with other senior care community buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 20 senior care community buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. 24434-Brookdale San Juan Capistrano's ENERGY STAR score of 34 compares with an average of 60 across the 19 that report a score; it scores higher than 16% of them and lower than 79%. Its site EUI of 82.9 kBtu/ft² is about 41% above the average of 59.0 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 5.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 42% above the group average of 3.7 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 87,659 sq ft, it is about 18% below the average floor area of 107,097 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2000, 11 years later than the group's average year built (1989). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 40 senior care community buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 49 and a site EUI of 93.5 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 34 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 34 means the building performs better than about 34% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 34 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 41 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. 24434-Brookdale San Juan Capistrano's 82.9 kBtu/ft² across 87,659 sq ft works out to about 7.3 billion Btu (2,130 MWh-equivalent) in 2019. The disclosure also reports 1,269,514 kWh of electricity and 29,313 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 24434-Brookdale San Juan Capistrano to report its energy use?

24434-Brookdale San Juan Capistrano 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:4768642:2019). 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.