29120 Commerce Center Drive (Rexford Ab 802)

How does 29120 Commerce Center Drive (Rexford Ab 802) 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 8.2 kBtu/ft² is about 59% 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 135,258 sq ft, it is about 43% below the average floor area of 238,298 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2002, 8 years later 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 8.2 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. 29120 Commerce Center Drive (Rexford Ab 802)'s 8.2 kBtu/ft² across 135,258 sq ft works out to about 1.1 billion Btu (325 MWh-equivalent) in 2022. The disclosure also reports 253,052 kWh of electricity and 1,788 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 29120 Commerce Center Drive (Rexford Ab 802) to report its energy use?

29120 Commerce Center Drive (Rexford Ab 802) 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:23985184:2022). 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.