Qvh | Medical Arts Building | 1135 S Sunset Ave

How does Qvh | Medical Arts Building | 1135 S Sunset Ave compare with other medical office buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 602 medical office buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Qvh | Medical Arts Building | 1135 S Sunset Ave's ENERGY STAR score of 29 compares with an average of 63 across the 546 that report a score; it scores higher than 21% of them and lower than 79%. Its site EUI of 112.5 kBtu/ft² is about 19% 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 6.9 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 23% above the group average of 5.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 89,448 sq ft, it is about 11% below the average floor area of 100,847 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1987, 4 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.

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 29 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 29 means the building performs better than about 29% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 29 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 46 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. Qvh | Medical Arts Building | 1135 S Sunset Ave's 112.5 kBtu/ft² across 89,448 sq ft works out to about 10.1 billion Btu (2,949 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 2,045,973 kWh of electricity and 28,839 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Qvh | Medical Arts Building | 1135 S Sunset Ave to report its energy use?

Qvh | Medical Arts Building | 1135 S Sunset Ave 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:63841392:2024). 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.