Mhs | Orange Coast | Patient Care Pavilion

How does Mhs | Orange Coast | Patient Care Pavilion 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 | Orange Coast | Patient Care Pavilion's ENERGY STAR score of 4 compares with an average of 63 across the 546 that report a score; it scores higher than 7% of them and lower than 92%. Its site EUI of 161.5 kBtu/ft² is about 71% above the average of 94.3 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 9.7 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 73% above the group average of 5.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 167,055 sq ft, it is about 66% above the average floor area of 100,847 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2009, 18 years later 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 | Orange Coast | Patient Care Pavilion's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 6 California disclosures for Mhs | Orange Coast | Patient Care Pavilion, covering report years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 12 in 2018 to 4 in 2024 (-8 points); its best year on file was 2020, at 13. Site EUI moved from 172.2 kBtu/ft² (2018) to 161.5 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 6% decrease. Reported emissions went from 1,735 tCO₂e to 1,618 tCO₂e over the same span (down 7%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 4 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 4 means the building performs better than about 4% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 4 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 71 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. Mhs | Orange Coast | Patient Care Pavilion's 161.5 kBtu/ft² across 167,055 sq ft works out to about 27 billion Btu (7,907 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 3,776,082 kWh of electricity and 143,614 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Mhs | Orange Coast | Patient Care Pavilion to report its energy use?

Mhs | Orange Coast | Patient Care Pavilion 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:6099914:2024). 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.