Brandon Place Senior Apartments(Ba266)

How does Brandon Place Senior Apartments(Ba266) 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 38.7 kBtu/ft² is about 13% above the average of 34.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 2.5 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 17% above the group average of 2.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 125,854 sq ft, it is about 17% below the average floor area of 150,919 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1997, 9 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 38.7 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. Brandon Place Senior Apartments(Ba266)'s 38.7 kBtu/ft² across 125,854 sq ft works out to about 4.9 billion Btu (1,427 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 1,308,435 kWh of electricity and 2,538 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Brandon Place Senior Apartments(Ba266) to report its energy use?

Brandon Place Senior Apartments(Ba266) 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:48681592:2024). 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.