Carlton Senior Living San Jose

How does Carlton Senior Living San Jose compare with other senior living community buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 542 senior living community buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Carlton Senior Living San Jose's ENERGY STAR score of 93 compares with an average of 81 across the 517 that report a score; it scores higher than 52% of them and lower than 46%. Its site EUI of 49.2 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with the average of 51.6 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 roughly in line with the group average of 3.2 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 90,306 sq ft, it is about 13% below the average floor area of 104,319 sq ft for those buildings. Its 1998 construction date is close to the group's average year built (1998). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,181 senior living community buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 71 and a site EUI of 73.6 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 93 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 93 means the building performs better than about 93% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 93 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. Carlton Senior Living San Jose's 49.2 kBtu/ft² across 90,306 sq ft works out to about 4.4 billion Btu (1,302 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 797,635 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires Carlton Senior Living San Jose to report its energy use?

Carlton Senior Living San Jose 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:54588092:2024). 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.