Briarwood Apartments (Br835)

How does Briarwood Apartments (Br835) 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. Briarwood Apartments (Br835)'s ENERGY STAR score of 91 compares with an average of 82 across the 9,612 that report a score; it scores higher than 49% of them and lower than 49%. Its site EUI of 41.5 kBtu/ft² is about 21% 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 2.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 24% above the group average of 2.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 122,272 sq ft, it is about 19% below the average floor area of 150,919 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1973, 15 years earlier 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.

How has Briarwood Apartments (Br835)'s energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 3 California disclosures for Briarwood Apartments (Br835), covering report years 2021–2023. Its ENERGY STAR score was 91 in both 2022 and 2023. Site EUI moved from 41.5 kBtu/ft² (2022) to 41.5 kBtu/ft² (2023), an 0% increase. Reported emissions went from 322 tCO₂e to 318 tCO₂e over the same span (down 1%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 91 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 91 means the building performs better than about 91% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 91 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. Briarwood Apartments (Br835)'s 41.5 kBtu/ft² across 122,272 sq ft works out to about 5.1 billion Btu (1,487 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. The disclosure also reports 662,670 kWh of electricity and 29,647 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Briarwood Apartments (Br835) to report its energy use?

Briarwood Apartments (Br835) 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 2023 disclosure (source record california:21485057:2023). 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.