Woodcrest Apartments - 5520 W 190Th St, Torrance, Ca 90503

How does Woodcrest Apartments - 5520 W 190Th St, Torrance, Ca 90503 compare with other multifamily housing buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 10,630 multifamily housing buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Woodcrest Apartments - 5520 W 190Th St, Torrance, Ca 90503's ENERGY STAR score of 55 compares with an average of 82 across the 9,612 that report a score; it scores higher than 12% of them and lower than 88%. Its site EUI of 47.7 kBtu/ft² is about 39% above the average of 34.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 2.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 26% above the group average of 2.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 117,212 sq ft, it is about 22% below the average floor area of 150,919 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1971, 17 years earlier than the group's average year built (1988). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 59,945 multifamily housing buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 70 and a site EUI of 59.0 kBtu/ft².

How has Woodcrest Apartments - 5520 W 190Th St, Torrance, Ca 90503's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 3 California disclosures for Woodcrest Apartments - 5520 W 190Th St, Torrance, Ca 90503, covering report years 2022–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 52 in 2022 to 55 in 2024 (+3 points). Site EUI moved from 51.9 kBtu/ft² (2022) to 47.7 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 8% decrease. Reported emissions went from 329 tCO₂e to 310 tCO₂e over the same span (down 6%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 55 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 55 means the building performs better than about 55% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 55 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 20 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. Woodcrest Apartments - 5520 W 190Th St, Torrance, Ca 90503's 47.7 kBtu/ft² across 117,212 sq ft works out to about 5.6 billion Btu (1,639 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 396,561 kWh of electricity and 41,448 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Woodcrest Apartments - 5520 W 190Th St, Torrance, Ca 90503 to report its energy use?

Woodcrest Apartments - 5520 W 190Th St, Torrance, Ca 90503 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:26680849:2024). 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.