A Look at Education Buildings
How large are they?
Are they on multibuilding complexes?
How do they use energy and how much does it cost?
How large are they?
The average education building is 25,100 square feet. There is 7.7 billion square feet of floorspace used for education, which is 13 percent of all commercial floorspace in the U.S.
About a third of all education buildings are less than 5,000 square feet. Education buildings generally are not tall buildings; the majority of them have one floor and 96 percent of them have three or fewer stories.
One of the questions asked for education buildings is the number of students that can be seated in all of the classrooms of the building at one time. Six percent of the sampled education buildings did not report this number, but for those that did, the average is 285 seats per building.
Table 1: Number and percent of education buildings and number of seats in education buildings by size category and number of floors
Continue: How many employees are there?
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Specific questions may be directed to:
Joelle Davis Michaels
joelle.michaels@eia.doe.gov
CBECS Manager
URL: http://www.eia.gov/emeu/consumptionbriefs/cbecs/pbawebsite/education/educ_howlarge.htm
Release
date: August 2, 2000
File last modified: January 3, 2001