Ca539_Avalon Studio City Building 1 (10965 Bluffside)

How does Ca539_Avalon Studio City Building 1 (10965 Bluffside) 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. Ca539_Avalon Studio City Building 1 (10965 Bluffside)'s ENERGY STAR score of 5 compares with an average of 82 across the 9,612 that report a score; it scores higher than 2% of them and lower than 98%. Its site EUI of 60.8 kBtu/ft² is about 77% 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 3.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 74% above the group average of 2.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 126,104 sq ft, it is about 16% below the average floor area of 150,919 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2002, 14 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.

How has Ca539_Avalon Studio City Building 1 (10965 Bluffside)'s energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 2 California disclosures for Ca539_Avalon Studio City Building 1 (10965 Bluffside), covering report years 2023–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score was 5 in both 2023 and 2024. Site EUI moved from 64.2 kBtu/ft² (2023) to 60.8 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 5% decrease. Reported emissions went from 480 tCO₂e to 460 tCO₂e over the same span (down 4%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 5 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 5 means the building performs better than about 5% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 5 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 70 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. Ca539_Avalon Studio City Building 1 (10965 Bluffside)'s 60.8 kBtu/ft² across 126,104 sq ft works out to about 7.7 billion Btu (2,247 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 648,911 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires Ca539_Avalon Studio City Building 1 (10965 Bluffside) to report its energy use?

Ca539_Avalon Studio City Building 1 (10965 Bluffside) 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:5912995:2024). 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.