The Springs At Pacific Regent (La Lolla)

How does The Springs At Pacific Regent (La Lolla) compare with other residential care facility buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 62 residential care facility buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 24.9 kBtu/ft² is about 60% below the average of 61.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 1.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 58% below the group average of 3.7 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 51,759 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 98,864 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1996, 13 years later than the group's average year built (1983). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 321 residential care facility buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 41 and a site EUI of 94.2 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 24.9 kBtu/ft² mean?

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. The Springs At Pacific Regent (La Lolla)'s 24.9 kBtu/ft² across 51,759 sq ft works out to about 1.3 billion Btu (378 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 316,330 kWh of electricity and 1,675 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires The Springs At Pacific Regent (La Lolla) to report its energy use?

The Springs At Pacific Regent (La Lolla) 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:57234592:2024). 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.