How large are they?

How many employees are there?

Where are they located?

How old are they?

Who owns and occupies them?

Are they on multibuilding complexes?

How do they use energy and how much does it cost?

How do they use electricity?

How do they use natural gas?

What types of equipment do they use?

How do they measure up on conservation efforts?

Owner Occupied vs. Nonowner Occupied
  Source:  Energy Information Administration, 1995 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey.

Buildings that are "owner occupied" are those where the owner or the owner's business is present in the building.  For example, a medical center that is entirely rented out to individual practices would not be considered to be owner occupied.

Inpatient health care buildings are much more likely to be owner occupied than are outpatient health care buildings.

Of health care buildings as a whole, 73 percent are owner occupied.

Government vs. Nongovernment

Only 18 percent of all health care buildings are government-owned (only 1 percent by the Federal government).  There are not enough government-owned health care buildings to draw any statistically valid conclusions about the number of State or local government-owned health care buildings or about the number of inpatient or outpatient health care buildings that are government-owned.

Go to  "Who owns and occupies them?" for other building types:

• Office
• Education
• Health Care
• Retail and Service
• Food Service

Joelle Davis Michaels
joelle.michaels@eia.doe.gov
CBECS Manager

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Release date:  September 11, 2000 
File last modified:  January 3, 2001