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Percent of FBSS Buildings and Floorspace by Selected Agencies, FY 1993

     Sources: Energy Information Administration, Energy Markets and End Use, 1993 Federal Buildings Supplemental Survey.

The Federal Buildings Supplemental Survey 1993 provides building-level energy-related characteristics for a special sample of commercial buildings owned by the Government. Extensive analysis of the data was not conducted because this report represents the 881 responding buildings (buildings for which interviews were completed) and cannot be used to generalize about Federal buildings in each region. Crosstabulations of the data from the 881 buildings are provided in the Detailed Tables section.

• Energy Consumption: In FY 1993, the 881 responding Federal commercial buildings in Federal Regions 3, 6, and 9 consumed about 22 trillion Btu of electricity, natural gas, fuel oil, and district heat (Table 2.1).

• Energy Expenditures: Expenditures for the 22 trillion Btu of energy consumed in the sampled Federal commercial buildings totaled about $308 million dollars (Table 2.1).

• Energy Intensity: The major fuel energy consumption intensity was 125.79 (thousand Btu per square foot) for the 881 buildings (Table 2.1).

• Principal Building Activity: Principal building activity, the activity that occupies the most floorspace in the building, indicates the diversity of the Federal commercial building population. In the 881 responding buildings in Federal Regions 3, 6, and 9, office buildings accounted for the greatest number of buildings, 33 percent and about 48 percent of the floorspace. Although health care buildings were only about 14 percent of the buildings in the sample, they constituted 21 percent of the floorspace (Table 3.7).

• Selected Characteristics by Agency: In a commercial building, building size and number of workers impact the consumption, expenditures and the associated energy intensities. Table 2.1 provides these data on an agency level. In FY 1993, of the total Federal expenditures for major fuel consumption in the 881 responding buildings in Federal Regions 3, 6, and 9 ($308 million), the General Services Administration (GSA) spent about $122 million. Overall, the GSA consumed about 33 percent of the total energy consumed in the sampled buildings in Federal Regions 3, 6, and 9 in FY 1993. The Veterans Administration was the next largest consumer of energy among the participating FBSS agencies.

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