Fayette Arms Apartments

How does Fayette Arms Apartments 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. Fayette Arms Apartments's ENERGY STAR score of 61 compares with an average of 82 across the 9,612 that report a score; it scores higher than 15% of them and lower than 85%. Its site EUI of 51.0 kBtu/ft² is about 48% 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 3.0 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 43% above the group average of 2.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 78,858 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 150,919 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1985, 3 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 Fayette Arms Apartments's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 2 California disclosures for Fayette Arms Apartments, covering report years 2019–2020. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 63 in 2019 to 61 in 2020 (-2 points); its best year on file was 2019, at 63. Site EUI moved from 50.6 kBtu/ft² (2019) to 51.0 kBtu/ft² (2020), an 1% increase. Reported emissions went from 240 tCO₂e to 235 tCO₂e over the same span (down 2%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 61 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 61 means the building performs better than about 61% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 61 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 14 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. Fayette Arms Apartments's 51.0 kBtu/ft² across 78,858 sq ft works out to about 4 billion Btu (1,179 MWh-equivalent) in 2020. The disclosure also reports 392,439 kWh of electricity and 27,523 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Fayette Arms Apartments to report its energy use?

Fayette Arms Apartments 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:11277241:2020). 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.