Diamond Heights Shopping Center - Bldg A - Safeway

How does Diamond Heights Shopping Center - Bldg A - Safeway compare with other commercial buildings in San Francisco?

The latest disclosures cover 1,683 commercial buildings in San Francisco, out of 2,509 buildings citywide. Diamond Heights Shopping Center - Bldg A - Safeway's ENERGY STAR score of 41 compares with an average of 78 across the 790 that report a score; it scores higher than 9% of them and lower than 91%. Its site EUI of 360.2 kBtu/ft² is about 632% above the average of 49.2 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 19.9 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 636% above the group average of 2.7 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 35,853 sq ft, it is about 67% below the average floor area of 107,408 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1964, 23 years later than the group's average year built (1941). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 2,307 commercial buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 76 and a site EUI of 51.3 kBtu/ft².

How has Diamond Heights Shopping Center - Bldg A - Safeway's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 15 San Francisco disclosures for Diamond Heights Shopping Center - Bldg A - Safeway, covering report years 2011–2025. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 9 in 2015 to 41 in 2025 (+32 points); its best year on file was 2019, at 46. Site EUI moved from 227.4 kBtu/ft² (2015) to 360.2 kBtu/ft² (2025), an 58% increase. Reported emissions went from 641 tCO₂e to 712 tCO₂e over the same span (up 11%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 41 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 41 means the building performs better than about 41% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 41 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 34 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. In San Francisco, 73% 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. Diamond Heights Shopping Center - Bldg A - Safeway's 360.2 kBtu/ft² across 35,853 sq ft works out to about 12.9 billion Btu (3,785 MWh-equivalent) in 2025. Its source EUI of 691.0 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 1,877,605 kWh of electricity and 65,095 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Diamond Heights Shopping Center - Bldg A - Safeway to report its energy use?

Diamond Heights Shopping Center - Bldg A - Safeway reports under SF Environment Code Chapter 20, the legal basis of San Francisco's Existing Buildings Energy Performance Ordinance, which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2025 disclosure (source record sf:7521/002-C:2025). San Francisco's ordinance requires annual benchmarking for commercial buildings over 10,000 sq ft, with administrative penalties for buildings that fail to report.