| 3.2.1 | Total Commercial Floorspace and Number of Buildings, by Year | ||||||||||||||||
| Commercial Sector | Percent Post- | ||||||||||||||||
| Floorspace (10^9 square feet) | 2000 Floorspace (2) | Buildings (10^6) | |||||||||||||||
| 1980 | 50.9 | (1) | N.A. | 3.1 | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 1990 | 64.3 | N.A. | 4.5 | (3) | |||||||||||||
| 2000 (4) | 68.5 | N.A. | 4.7 | (5) | |||||||||||||
| 2008 (4) | 78.8 | 15% | N.A. | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 (4) | 81.2 | 26% | N.A. | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 (4) | 85.5 | 35% | N.A. | ||||||||||||||
| 2020 (4) | 91.5 | 45% | N.A. | ||||||||||||||
| 2025 (4) | 97.4 | 54% | N.A. | ||||||||||||||
| 2030 (4) | 103.5 | 62% | N.A. | ||||||||||||||
| 2035 (4) | 109.8 | 70% | |||||||||||||||
| Note(s): | 1) Based on PNNL calculations. 2) Percent built after Dec. 31, 2000. 3) Actually for previous year. 4) EIA now excludes parking garages and commercial buildings on multi-building manufacturing facilities from the commercial building sector. 5) Data is from 1999. In 1999, commercial building floorspace = 67.3 billion square feet. | ||||||||||||||||