Alvarado Medical Plaza I - 5555 Reservoir Drive

How does Alvarado Medical Plaza I - 5555 Reservoir Drive compare with other medical office buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 602 medical office buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Alvarado Medical Plaza I - 5555 Reservoir Drive's ENERGY STAR score of 96 compares with an average of 63 across the 546 that report a score; it scores higher than 78% of them and lower than 21%. Its site EUI of 49.6 kBtu/ft² is about half of the average of 94.3 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 3.0 kgCO₂e/ft² is about half of the group average of 5.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 55,968 sq ft, it is about 45% below the average floor area of 100,847 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1978, 13 years earlier than the group's average year built (1991). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,266 medical office buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 64 and a site EUI of 92.2 kBtu/ft².

How has Alvarado Medical Plaza I - 5555 Reservoir Drive's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 2 California disclosures for Alvarado Medical Plaza I - 5555 Reservoir Drive, covering report years 2020, 2022. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 81 in 2020 to 96 in 2022 (+15 points). Site EUI moved from 54.1 kBtu/ft² (2020) to 49.6 kBtu/ft² (2022), a 8% decrease. Reported emissions went from 181 tCO₂e to 168 tCO₂e over the same span (down 7%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 96 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 96 means the building performs better than about 96% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 96 falls in band A — high performer (85–100). Scores of 75 or higher meet the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification; certification itself is a separate, verified application that the disclosure does not record. 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 Medical Plaza I - 5555 Reservoir Drive's 49.6 kBtu/ft² across 55,968 sq ft works out to about 2.8 billion Btu (814 MWh-equivalent) in 2022. The disclosure also reports 459,217 kWh of electricity and 11,415 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Alvarado Medical Plaza I - 5555 Reservoir Drive to report its energy use?

Alvarado Medical Plaza I - 5555 Reservoir 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:15717958:2022). 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.