4690 Tompkins Avenue (To020)

How does 4690 Tompkins Avenue (To020) 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. Its site EUI of 4.8 kBtu/ft² is about 86% below the average of 34.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 0.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 87% below the group average of 2.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 107,317 sq ft, it is about 29% below the average floor area of 150,919 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2020, 32 years later 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 a site EUI of 4.8 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. 4690 Tompkins Avenue (To020)'s 4.8 kBtu/ft² across 107,317 sq ft works out to about 0.5 billion Btu (151 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 34,728 kWh of electricity and 4,002 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 4690 Tompkins Avenue (To020) to report its energy use?

4690 Tompkins Avenue (To020) 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:51890292:2024). 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.