Dixon Landing Business Park (409-431)

How does Dixon Landing Business Park (409-431) compare with other office buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 6,214 office buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 54.1 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with the average of 56.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 3.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 3.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 65,592 sq ft, it is about 57% below the average floor area of 151,937 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1997, 12 years later than the group's average year built (1985). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 15,264 office buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 73 and a site EUI of 59.3 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 54.1 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. Dixon Landing Business Park (409-431)'s 54.1 kBtu/ft² across 65,592 sq ft works out to about 3.5 billion Btu (1,040 MWh-equivalent) in 2020. The disclosure also reports 908,140 kWh of electricity and 5,097 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Dixon Landing Business Park (409-431) to report its energy use?

Dixon Landing Business Park (409-431) 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 2020 disclosure (source record california:16349895:2020). 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.