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I had a real hard time in guesstimating the quantum of buildings in US, not to mention the segmentation of commercial and residential.
After going through a variety of literatures, online resources, government data and portals, I somehow managed to attain some level of quantum. Below is the analysis and various data-points which I was able to achieve based on the sturdy research and analytics.
Commercial Buildings of US:
This section will provide you with the trends in commercial buildings by various building attributes. The trends will include distribution of buildings by square footage, occupancy, number of stories, year of built, type of roof and exterior walls.
Apart from these basic stats there are certain trends for type of roof and exterior wall construction.
- Distribution of Buildings by SquareFootage / Area Building
- Distribution of Buildings by Occupancy Type
- Distribution of Buildings by Number of Stories / Floors
- Distribution of Buildings by Roof Type
- Trends in Roof Type by Square Footage of buildings
- Trends in Roof Type by Number of Stories / Floors
- Trends in Roof Type by Year of Built / Construction
- Distribution of Buildings by Exterior Wall
- Trends in Exterior Walls by Square Footage
- Trends in Exterior Walls by Number of Stories / Floors
- Trends in Exterior Walls by Year of Built / construction
Residential Buildings of US:
This section will provide you with trends in residential buildings by various building attributes. The residential buildings comprise of SFD-Attached, SFD-Detached, MFD and Mobile Homes.
- SFD denotes Single Family Dwelling
- MFD denotes Multi Family Dwelling
The trends will include distribution of residential buildings by year of built, number of stories, construction type and roof type.
- Distribution of Buildings by Type of Structure / SFD
- Distribution of Buildings by Year of Built / Construction
- Distribution of Buildings by Number of Stories / Floors
- Distribution of Buildings by Type of Construction
- Distribution of Buildings by Type of Roof
References:
US Environment Protection Agency
US Office of Energy Consumption and Efficiency Statistics
US Census Information
The International Conference of Building Officials
The Southern Building Code Congress International
The Building Officials and Code Administrators International
