Sea Cliff Healthcare Center

How does Sea Cliff Healthcare Center compare with other senior living community buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 542 senior living community buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Sea Cliff Healthcare Center's ENERGY STAR score of 89 compares with an average of 81 across the 517 that report a score; it scores higher than 44% of them and lower than 54%. Its site EUI of 62.8 kBtu/ft² is about 22% above the average of 51.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 3.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 12% above the group average of 3.2 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 76,489 sq ft, it is about 27% below the average floor area of 104,319 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1972, 26 years earlier than the group's average year built (1998). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,181 senior living community buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 71 and a site EUI of 73.6 kBtu/ft².

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. Sea Cliff Healthcare Center's 62.8 kBtu/ft² across 76,489 sq ft works out to about 4.8 billion Btu (1,408 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 335,074 kWh of electricity and 37,296 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Sea Cliff Healthcare Center to report its energy use?

Sea Cliff Healthcare Center 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:29006575:2024). 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.