Lafayette Park Tower - 315 S La Fayette Park Pl, Los Angeles, Ca 90057

How does Lafayette Park Tower - 315 S La Fayette Park Pl, Los Angeles, Ca 90057 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. Lafayette Park Tower - 315 S La Fayette Park Pl, Los Angeles, Ca 90057's ENERGY STAR score of 86 compares with an average of 82 across the 9,612 that report a score; it scores higher than 40% of them and lower than 58%. Its site EUI of 36.2 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with the average of 34.4 kBtu/ft². Its emissions intensity of 2.2 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 2.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 82,550 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 150,919 sq ft for those buildings. Its 1990 construction date is close to 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 Lafayette Park Tower - 315 S La Fayette Park Pl, Los Angeles, Ca 90057's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 2 California disclosures for Lafayette Park Tower - 315 S La Fayette Park Pl, Los Angeles, Ca 90057, covering report years 2023–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 96 in 2023 to 86 in 2024 (-10 points); its best year on file was 2023, at 96. Site EUI moved from 31.7 kBtu/ft² (2023) to 36.2 kBtu/ft² (2024), an 14% increase. Reported emissions went from 163 tCO₂e to 181 tCO₂e over the same span (up 11%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 86 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 86 means the building performs better than about 86% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 86 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. Lafayette Park Tower - 315 S La Fayette Park Pl, Los Angeles, Ca 90057's 36.2 kBtu/ft² across 82,550 sq ft works out to about 3 billion Btu (876 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 444,101 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires Lafayette Park Tower - 315 S La Fayette Park Pl, Los Angeles, Ca 90057 to report its energy use?

Lafayette Park Tower - 315 S La Fayette Park Pl, Los Angeles, Ca 90057 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:28493262:2024). 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.