5580 Morehouse Drive

How does 5580 Morehouse Drive compare with other laboratory buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 308 laboratory buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 119.3 kBtu/ft² is about 34% below the average of 181.8 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 7.4 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 33% below the group average of 11.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 83,374 sq ft, it is about 31% below the average floor area of 121,485 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2020, 28 years later than the group's average year built (1992). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 795 laboratory buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 29 and a site EUI of 231.7 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 119.3 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. 5580 Morehouse Drive's 119.3 kBtu/ft² across 83,374 sq ft works out to about 9.9 billion Btu (2,915 MWh-equivalent) in 2022. The disclosure also reports 1,845,692 kWh of electricity and 35,341 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires 5580 Morehouse Drive to report its energy use?

5580 Morehouse Drive 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:16085762:2022). 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.