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DOE Profiles Commercial Building Stock

The Lighting Controls Association recently published a whitepaper I wrote about the 2012 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey, published in stages this year by the Department of Energy.

The 2012 CBECS provides an estimated profile of the U.S. commercial building stock based on an interviewed sampling. Information includes number of buildings, floorspace, age, building type, region, energy consumption, end-use equipment and more.

Want to know how many healthcare buildings there are in the Midwest? Or the total floorspace of office buildings? Or adoption of occupancy sensors in buildings built before 1980? The CBECS has an estimate.

Learn more here.

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Craig DiLouie
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