A Look at Office Buildings - Table 6: Natural Gas Consumption

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OFFICE BUILDINGS
Table 6: Natural gas consumption and cost by size category

	Natural Gas
	Consumption			Cost
	Total (billion cubic feet)	per Building (thousand cubic feet)	per Square Foot (cubic feet)	per thousand cubic feet (dollars)

All Office Buildings	233	532	35.7	4.94

Building Floorspace Category
Small	34	137	52.6	5.65
Medium	87	520	35.5	5.51
Large	113	4,510	32.8	4.29

Small buildings = 1,001 to 5,000 square feet
Medium buildings = 5,001 to 50,000 square feet
Large buildings = Over 50,000 square feet

Source: Energy Information Administration,
1995 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey.

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