Alvarado Hospital Medical Center - West Tower

How does Alvarado Hospital Medical Center - West Tower compare with other hospital (general medical & surgical) buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 329 hospital (general medical & surgical) buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Alvarado Hospital Medical Center - West Tower's ENERGY STAR score of 38 compares with an average of 59 across the 300 that report a score; it scores higher than 33% of them and lower than 67%. Its site EUI of 216.8 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with the average of 238.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 13.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 14.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 107,000 sq ft, it is about 75% below the average floor area of 432,386 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1989, 12 years later than the group's average year built (1978). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 748 hospital (general medical & surgical) buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 59 and a site EUI of 238.7 kBtu/ft².

How has Alvarado Hospital Medical Center - West Tower's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 2 California disclosures for Alvarado Hospital Medical Center - West Tower, covering report years 2018–2019. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 66 in 2018 to 38 in 2019 (-28 points); its best year on file was 2018, at 66. Site EUI moved from 186.8 kBtu/ft² (2018) to 216.8 kBtu/ft² (2019), an 16% increase. Reported emissions went from 1,231 tCO₂e to 1,428 tCO₂e over the same span (up 16%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 38 mean?

ENERGY STAR scores run from 1 to 100 and are computed by the EPA's Portfolio Manager as a percentile against similar buildings nationwide, adjusted for climate, size and use: a score of 38 means the building performs better than about 38% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 38 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 37 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. In California, 65% of scored buildings are at 75 or above.

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. Alvarado Hospital Medical Center - West Tower's 216.8 kBtu/ft² across 107,000 sq ft works out to about 23.2 billion Btu (6,799 MWh-equivalent) in 2019. The disclosure also reports 3,263,096 kWh of electricity and 121,157 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Alvarado Hospital Medical Center - West Tower to report its energy use?

Alvarado Hospital Medical Center - West Tower 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 2019 disclosure (source record california:5965087:2019). 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.