Public Order and Safety Buildings... Volunteer fire stations tend not to be government owned, which probably explains why 33 percent of public order and safety buildings were not owned by Federal, state, or local governments. Only 7 percent of all public order and safety buildings were constructed in the 1990's. The Northeast Census region had a high concentration of public order and safety buildings—43 percent of these buildings are in the Northeast (while the Northeast region contained only 9 percent of all commercial buildings).

Public Order and Safety Buildings by Ownership

Tables:

• Buildings and Size Data by Basic Characteristics
• Establishment, Employment, and Age Data by Characteristics

Equipment

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

Predominant Heating Equipment Types in Public Order and Safety Buildings

Predominant Cooling Equipment Types in Public Order and Safety Buildings

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Building respondents who reported that their building was a public order and safety building were then asked to place the building into the following more specific categories: a jail, reformatory, or penitentiary a courthouse or probation office a fire or police station some other type of public order and safety building

Public Order and Safety Buildings by Subcategory

Table: Selected Data by Type of Public Order and Safety Building

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Energy Use

Public order and safety buildings used 102 trillion Btu of total energy, which was 2 percent of total energy consumption for all commercial buildings. Since they also accounted for 2 percent of commercial floorspace, this means that their energy intensity was about average.
Public order and safety buildings were one of the building types to use a significant amount of fuel oil. Tables: Consumption by Size and Type of Public Order and Safety Building for: Sum of Major Fuels Electricity Natural Gas Fuel Oil Reference: What is a Btu?		Energy Consumption in Public Order and Safety 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. Public order and safety buildings used 122 trillion Btu of primary electricity, so their total primary energy consumption was 183 trillion Btu, or 2 percent of total primary consumption for all commercial buildings.

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