Nems - San Jose 1870 Lundy

How does Nems - San Jose 1870 Lundy compare with other medical office buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 602 medical office buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Nems - San Jose 1870 Lundy's ENERGY STAR score of 88 compares with an average of 63 across the 546 that report a score; it scores higher than 67% of them and lower than 32%. Its site EUI of 32.4 kBtu/ft² is about 66% 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 2.1 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 63% below the group average of 5.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 68,000 sq ft, it is about 33% below the average floor area of 100,847 sq ft for those buildings. Its 1989 construction date is close to 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.

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 88 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 88 means the building performs better than about 88% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 88 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. Nems - San Jose 1870 Lundy's 32.4 kBtu/ft² across 68,000 sq ft works out to about 2.2 billion Btu (646 MWh-equivalent) in 2018. The disclosure also reports 397,204 kWh of electricity and 8,432 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Nems - San Jose 1870 Lundy to report its energy use?

Nems - San Jose 1870 Lundy 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 2018 disclosure (source record california:6788033:2018). 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.