Grace Gardens At Town And Country

How does Grace Gardens At Town And Country 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. Grace Gardens At Town And Country's ENERGY STAR score of 96 compares with an average of 81 across the 517 that report a score; it scores higher than 62% of them and lower than 34%. Its site EUI of 32.2 kBtu/ft² is about 38% below 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 2.1 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 35% below the group average of 3.2 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 50,564 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 104,319 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2021, 23 years later than 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 96 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 96 means the building performs better than about 96% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 96 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. Grace Gardens At Town And Country's 32.2 kBtu/ft² across 50,564 sq ft works out to about 1.6 billion Btu (477 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 461,758 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires Grace Gardens At Town And Country to report its energy use?

Grace Gardens At Town And Country 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:49877492:2024). 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.