Mhs | Long Beach | Memorial Medical Building

How does Mhs | Long Beach | Memorial Medical Building compare with other medical office buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 602 medical office buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Mhs | Long Beach | Memorial Medical Building's ENERGY STAR score of 100 compares with an average of 63 across the 546 that report a score; it scores higher than 85% of them. Its site EUI of 27.0 kBtu/ft² is about 71% below the average of 94.3 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 1.7 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 69% below the group average of 5.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 69,286 sq ft, it is about 31% below the average floor area of 100,847 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1960, 31 years earlier than the group's average year built (1991). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,266 medical office buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 64 and a site EUI of 92.2 kBtu/ft².

How has Mhs | Long Beach | Memorial Medical Building's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 3 California disclosures for Mhs | Long Beach | Memorial Medical Building, covering report years 2022–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 88 in 2022 to 100 in 2024 (+12 points); its best year on file was 2023, at 100. Site EUI moved from 67.0 kBtu/ft² (2022) to 27.0 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 60% decrease. Reported emissions went from 281 tCO₂e to 120 tCO₂e over the same span (down 57%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 100 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: 100 is the top of the scale. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 100 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. Mhs | Long Beach | Memorial Medical Building's 27.0 kBtu/ft² across 69,286 sq ft works out to about 1.9 billion Btu (548 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 435,180 kWh of electricity and 4,027 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Mhs | Long Beach | Memorial Medical Building to report its energy use?

Mhs | Long Beach | Memorial Medical Building 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:24141433:2024). 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.