Vista Knoll Specialized Care Facility

How does Vista Knoll Specialized Care Facility 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 78.1 kBtu/ft² is about 27% above the average of 61.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 4.8 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 31% above the group average of 3.7 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 63,824 sq ft, it is about 35% below the average floor area of 98,864 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1972, 11 years earlier 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 78.1 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. Vista Knoll Specialized Care Facility's 78.1 kBtu/ft² across 63,824 sq ft works out to about 5 billion Btu (1,461 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 420,701 kWh of electricity and 40,171 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Vista Knoll Specialized Care Facility to report its energy use?

Vista Knoll Specialized Care Facility 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:57139292:2024). 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.