Health Care Buildings... Health care buildings in the South tended to be smaller and were more numerous than those in other regions of the country. Buildings on health care complexes tended to be newer than those not on multibuilding facilities. The median age for buildings on health care complexes was 9.5 years, compared to 29.5 years for health care buildings not on a multibuilding facility. Buildings on health care complexes also tended to be larger than those not on complexes. The average building on a complex was 79.9 thousand square feet, compared to 11.2 thousand square feet for buildings not on complexes. Tables: Buildings and Size Data by Basic Characteristics Establishment, Employment, and Age Data by Characteristics Top

Number of Health Care Buildings by Building Size Category Buildings and Floorspace of Health Care Buildings by Census Region Health Care Buildings on Multibuilding Facilities by Type of Facility

Equipment

Table: Buildings, Size, and Age Data by Equipment Types

Predominant Heating Equipment Types in Health Care Buildings

Predominant Cooling Equipment Types in Health Care Buildings

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Building respondents who reported that their building was a health care building were then asked to place the building into the following more specific categories: a hospital or other inpatient health care building a doctor's or dentist's office a clinic or other outpatient health care building a mental health institution an inpatient rehabilitation center an outpatient rehabilitation center a veterinarian's office some other type of health care

Health Care Buildings by Subcategory

There were enough buildings in the responding sample to report statistics for hospitals/other inpatient health care buildings, doctor's/dentist's offices, and clinics/outpatient health care buildings. The rest of the health care activities have been combined into the other health care category.

Table: Selected Data by Type of Health Care Building

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Energy Use

Health care buildings used 515 trillion Btu of total energy, which was 9 percent of total energy consumption for all commercial buildings. Since they accounted for only 4 percent of commercial floorspace, this means that their energy intensity was well above average.
Health care buildings were one of the few building types to use a significant amount of district heat. Tables: Consumption by Size and Type of Health Care Building for: Sum of Major Fuels Electricity Natural Gas Fuel Oil District Heat Reference: What is a Btu?		Energy Consumption in Health Care Buildings by Energy Source

The total energy consumption data in the figures and tables above are “site energy,” which includes only the amount of electricity consumed within the building; energy use can also be expressed as “primary energy,” which includes the energy consumed during the generation and transmission of electricity. Health care buildings used 701 trillion Btu of primary electricity, so their total primary energy consumption was 984 trillion Btu, or 8 percent of total primary consumption for all commercial buildings.

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