Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS)

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Building Characteristics

A table of Relative Standard Errors (RSEs) is included as a worksheet tab in the Excel version of all building characteristics tables.

See the Guide to the 2012 CBECS Detailed Tables for more information.

See 1999 to 2012 CBECS Terminology for definitions specific to this survey cycle

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Summary tables
Preliminary release date: March 4, 2015 Release date: May 20, 2016 Revised date: December 20, 2016
All tables (Tables B1-B46, 303 pages, 8.5 MB)	PDF
Summary tables (Table B1-B2)	PDF
Table B1. Summary table: total and means of floorspace, number of workers, and hours of operation	PDF XLS
Table B2. Summary table: total and medians of floorspace, number of workers, and hours of operation	PDF XLS
Geographic region
Preliminary release date: March 4, 2015 Release date: May 20, 2016
Geographic region (Tables B3-B5)	PDF
Table B3. Census region, number of buildings and floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B4. Census region and division, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B5. Census region and division, floorspace	PDF XLS
Size and age
Preliminary release date: March 4, 2015 Release date: May 20, 2016
Size and age (Tables B6-B10)	PDF
Table B6. Building size, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B7. Building size, floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B8. Year constructed, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B9. Year constructed, floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B10. Number of floors, number of buildings and floorspace	PDF XLS
Building activity
Preliminary release date: March 4, 2015 Release date: May 20, 2016
Building activity (Tables B11-B14)	PDF
Table B11. Selected principal building activity: part 1, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B12. Selected principal building activity: part 1, floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B13. Selected principal building activity: part 2, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B14. Selected principal building activity: part 2, floorspace	PDF XLS
Building activity subcategory tables (Release date: December 20, 2016)
Table PBA1. Summary table: total and means of floorspace, number of workers, and hours of operation by building activity subcategories	PDF XLS
Table PBA2. Summary table: total and medians of floorspace, number of workers, hours of operation, and age of building by building activity subcategories	PDF XLS
2012 CBECS Building Activity Subcategory Examples and Definitions	PDF
Employment and occupancy
Preliminary release date: April 30, 2015 Release date: May 20, 2016
Employment and occupancy (Tables B15-B21)	PDF
Table B15. Employment size category, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B16. Employment size category, floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B17. Occupancy of nongovernment-owned and government-owned buildings, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B18. Occupancy of nongovernment-owned and government-owned buildings, floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B19. Number of establishments in building, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B20. Number of establishments in building, floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B21. Multibuilding facilities, number of buildings and floorspace	PDF XLS
Energy sources and end uses
Preliminary release date: April 30, 2015 Release date: May 20, 2016
Energy sources and end uses (Tables B22-B33)	PDF
Table B22. Energy sources, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B23. Energy sources, floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B24. Energy end uses, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B25. Energy end uses, floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B26. Space-heating energy sources, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B27. Space-heating energy sources, floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B28. Primary space-heating energy sources, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B29. Primary space-heating energy sources, floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B30. Cooling energy sources, number of buildings and floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B31. Water-heating energy sources, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B32. Water-heating energy sources, floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B33. Cooking energy sources, number of buildings and floorspace	PDF XLS
Floorspace heated, cooled, and lit
Preliminary release date: April 30, 2015 Release date: May 20, 2016
Floorspace heated, cooled, and lit (Tables B34-B37)	PDF
Table B34. Percent of floorspace heated, number of buildings and floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B35. Percent of floorspace cooled, number of buildings and floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B36. Percent of floorspace lit when open, number of buildings and floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B37. Heated, cooled and lit buildings, floorspace	PDF XLS
End-use equipment
Preliminary release date: April 30, 2015 Release date: May 20, 2016
End-use equipment (Tables B38-B46)	PDF
Table B38. Heating equipment, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B39. Heating equipment, floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B40. Cooling equipment, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B41. Cooling equipment, floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B42. Water-heating equipment, number of buildings and floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B43. Lighting equipment, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B44. Lighting equipment floorspace	PDF XLS
Table B45. Refrigeration equipment, number of buildings	PDF XLS
Table B46. Refrigeration equipment, floorspace	PDF XLS