Santa Clarita City Hall

How does Santa Clarita City Hall compare with other office buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 6,214 office buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Santa Clarita City Hall's ENERGY STAR score of 58 compares with an average of 75 across the 4,912 that report a score; it scores higher than 20% of them and lower than 79%. Its site EUI of 76.8 kBtu/ft² is about 36% above the average of 56.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 4.9 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 35% above the group average of 3.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 74,298 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 151,937 sq ft for those buildings. Its 1983 construction date is close to the group's average year built (1985). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 15,264 office buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 73 and a site EUI of 59.3 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 58 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 58 means the building performs better than about 58% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 58 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 17 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. Santa Clarita City Hall's 76.8 kBtu/ft² across 74,298 sq ft works out to about 5.7 billion Btu (1,672 MWh-equivalent) in 2018. The disclosure also reports 1,069,043 kWh of electricity and 19,735 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Santa Clarita City Hall to report its energy use?

Santa Clarita City Hall 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:2677706:2018). 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.