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Principal Building Activity

The amount of commercial floorspace and number of commercial buildings by principal building activity are shown below (Figures 5 and 6). Four building activities—office, mercantile, warehouse and storage, and education—greatly exceeded other activities in floorspace; they comprised 43.4 billion square feet or 60% of the 71.7 billion square feet of total commercial floorspace. Those four activities represented a smaller fraction of total buildings; 2.5 million or 51% of the 4.9 million commercial buildings in the U.S.

Figure 5. Distribution of Floorspace by Principal Building Activity, 2003
Figure 5.Distribution of Floorspace by Principal Building Activitiy, 2003. If you are having trouble viewing this page, please contact the National Energy Information Center at (202) 586-8800.

Source: Energy Information Administration, 2003 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey.

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Figure 6. Distribution of Buildings by Principal Building Activity, 2003
Figure 6.Distribution of Buildings by Principal Building Activitiy, 2003. If you are having trouble viewing this page, please contact the National Energy Information Center at (202) 586-8800.

Source: Energy Information Administration, 2003 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey.

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