334 El Encanto Road (Rexford Ab 802)

How does 334 El Encanto Road (Rexford Ab 802) compare with other manufacturing/industrial plant buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 982 manufacturing/industrial plant buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 486.0 kBtu/ft² is about 281% above the average of 127.7 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 27.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 269% above the group average of 7.4 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 64,368 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 135,409 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1960, 22 years earlier than the group's average year built (1982). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 2,372 manufacturing/industrial plant buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 67 and a site EUI of 126.3 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 486.0 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. 334 El Encanto Road (Rexford Ab 802)'s 486.0 kBtu/ft² across 64,368 sq ft works out to about 31.3 billion Btu (9,168 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. The disclosure also reports 1,561,153 kWh of electricity and 259,545 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 334 El Encanto Road (Rexford Ab 802) to report its energy use?

334 El Encanto Road (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 2023 disclosure (source record california:23946273:2023). 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.