Lodging Buildings... Large lodging buildings tended to be newer than small lodging buildings. Over half of all lodging buildings had only one or two floors. The West Census region housed a lot of lodging buildings—39 percent of lodging buildings were in the West (only 22 percent of all commercial buildings were in the West). Tables: Buildings and Size Data by Basic Characteristics Establishment, Employment, and Age Data by Characteristics

Number of Lodging Buildings by Building Size Category

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Equipment

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

Predominant Heating Equipment in Lodging Buildings

Predominant Cooling Equipment in Lodging Buildings

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Building respondents who reported that their building was a lodging building were then asked to place the building into the following more specific categories: a hotel a motel, inn, or resort a retirement home a shelter, orphanage, or children's home a convent or monastery a dormitory, fraternity, or sorority a nursing home, assisted living center, or other residential care building a half-way house some other type of lodging

Lodging Buildings by Subcategory

There were enough buildings in the responding sample to report statistics for hotels, motels/inns/resorts, dormitories/fraternities/sororities, and nursing homes/assisted living centers. The rest of these activities have been combined into the other lodging category.

Table: Selected Data by Type of Lodging Building

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Energy Use

Lodging buildings used 450 trillion Btu of total energy, which was 8 percent of total energy consumption for all commercial buildings. Since they comprised 7 percent of commercial floorspace, this means that their energy intensity was slightly above average.
Lodging buildings were one of the few building types that used a significant amount of district heat; the majority of these lodging buildings that used district heat were dormitories, sororities, or fraternities. Tables: Consumption by Size and Type of Lodging Building for: Sum of Major Fuels Electricity Natural Gas District Heat Reference: What is a Btu?		Energy Consumption in Lodging 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. Lodging buildings used 591 trillion Btu of primary electricity, so their total primary energy consumption was 845 trillion Btu, or 7 percent of total primary consumption for all commercial buildings.

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