Kingston Bay Senior Living

How does Kingston Bay Senior Living 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. Kingston Bay Senior Living's ENERGY STAR score of 58 compares with an average of 81 across the 517 that report a score; it scores higher than 15% of them and lower than 85%. Its site EUI of 50.9 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 3.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 3.2 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 85,435 sq ft, it is about 18% below the average floor area of 104,319 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2017, 19 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.

How has Kingston Bay Senior Living's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 2 California disclosures for Kingston Bay Senior Living, covering report years 2023–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 53 in 2023 to 58 in 2024 (+5 points). Site EUI moved from 51.2 kBtu/ft² (2023) to 50.9 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 1% decrease. Reported emissions went from 290 tCO₂e to 278 tCO₂e over the same span (down 4%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 58 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 58 means the building performs better than about 58% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 58 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 17 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. Kingston Bay Senior Living's 50.9 kBtu/ft² across 85,435 sq ft works out to about 4.3 billion Btu (1,274 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 946,686 kWh of electricity and 12,056 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Kingston Bay Senior Living to report its energy use?

Kingston Bay Senior Living 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:34546128:2024). 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.