Orchard Park

How does Orchard Park compare with other senior care community buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 20 senior care community buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Orchard Park's ENERGY STAR score of 89 compares with an average of 60 across the 19 that report a score; it scores higher than 74% of them and lower than 21%. Its site EUI of 46.0 kBtu/ft² is about 22% below the average of 59.0 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 2.8 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 24% below the group average of 3.7 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 82,855 sq ft, it is about 23% below the average floor area of 107,097 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1998, 9 years later than the group's average year built (1989). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 40 senior care community buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 49 and a site EUI of 93.5 kBtu/ft².

How has Orchard Park's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 2 California disclosures for Orchard Park, covering report years 2019–2020. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 85 in 2019 to 89 in 2020 (+4 points). Site EUI moved from 46.1 kBtu/ft² (2019) to 46.0 kBtu/ft² (2020), a 0% decrease. Reported emissions went from 235 tCO₂e to 235 tCO₂e over the same span (down 0%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 89 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 89 means the building performs better than about 89% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 89 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. Orchard Park's 46.0 kBtu/ft² across 82,855 sq ft works out to about 3.8 billion Btu (1,117 MWh-equivalent) in 2020. The disclosure also reports 690,778 kWh of electricity and 14,725 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Orchard Park to report its energy use?

Orchard Park 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 2020 disclosure (source record california:11630212:2020). 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.