2610 & 2701 S Birch St (Rexford Esg)

How does 2610 & 2701 S Birch St (Rexford Esg) compare with other distribution center buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 3,121 distribution center buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 7.6 kBtu/ft² is about 62% below the average of 19.8 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 0.5 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 62% below the group average of 1.3 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 98,379 sq ft, it is about 59% below the average floor area of 238,298 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1965, 29 years earlier than the group's average year built (1994). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 4,082 distribution center buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 65 and a site EUI of 24.2 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 7.6 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. 2610 & 2701 S Birch St (Rexford Esg)'s 7.6 kBtu/ft² across 98,379 sq ft works out to about 0.7 billion Btu (219 MWh-equivalent) in 2022. The disclosure also reports 218,720 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires 2610 & 2701 S Birch St (Rexford Esg) to report its energy use?

2610 & 2701 S Birch St (Rexford Esg) 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 2022 disclosure (source record california:26597142:2022). 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.