Disaggregated Principal Building Activities
The 1999 CBECS collected information for 20 general building activities. Five of the activities were aggregated and data for 16 activities are displayed in the detailed tables. Within the aggregated warehouse and storage category, nonrefrigerated warehouses greatly exceeded refrigerated warehouses both in amount of floorspace and number of buildings (compare Figure 1 with Figure 2). Within the mercantile category, the number of retail buildings greatly exceeded strip shopping buildings which, in turn, greatly exceeded enclosed shopping malls (Figure 2). The amount of mercantile floorspace was more evenly distributed (Figure 1) because of differences in average building size—enclosed malls were largest and retail buildings the smallest.
Skilled nursing buildings were aggregated into the lodging category in the detailed tables. They made up 18 percent of lodging floorspace and 20 percent of lodging buildings. Laboratory buildings, included in the “other” category, were a significant component of that category, comprising more than one-third of “other” floorspace.
Figure 1. Disaggregated Floorspace for Aggregated Building Activities, 1999
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Figure 2. Disaggregated Buildings for Aggregated Building Activities, 1999
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