BPIE: Europe's buildings under the microscope - PU Europe
BPIE: Europe's buildings under the microscope - PU Europe
BPIE: Europe's buildings under the microscope - PU Europe
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Size<br />
Information on <strong>the</strong> size of non-residential <strong>buildings</strong> is helpful in <strong>under</strong>standing <strong>the</strong> impact of policy<br />
measures that are targeted at non-residential <strong>buildings</strong> with different floor area thresholds.<br />
Through <strong>the</strong> <strong>BPIE</strong> survey, data was available from 13 countries (AT, BG, CY, CZ, EE, IE, IT, LT, NL, SE, SI, SK,<br />
UK). The following five key building categories have been considered:<br />
Offices<br />
Educational <strong>buildings</strong><br />
Hospitals<br />
Hotels and restaurants<br />
Retail <strong>buildings</strong><br />
The analysis of <strong>the</strong> size of non-residential <strong>buildings</strong> is presented in Table 1B1, ei<strong>the</strong>r as a percentage of <strong>the</strong><br />
floor area or as a percentage of <strong>the</strong> number of <strong>buildings</strong> in that size band.<br />
Table 1B1 – Share of non-residential <strong>buildings</strong> size (%)<br />
Source: <strong>BPIE</strong> survey<br />
All types of consuming non-residential <strong>buildings</strong><br />
number < 200 m 2 200 - 1000 m 2 > 1000 m 2<br />
EE 10 50 40<br />
SI 89.8 8.8 1.4<br />
LT 42 55 3<br />
CY 79 21<br />
AT 11 52 37<br />
NOTES<br />
The figures in <strong>the</strong> above tables are in % and add up to 100%.<br />
AT: Values based on registered certificates, accounting for 1007 data sets of non-residential <strong>buildings</strong>, most of which are office <strong>buildings</strong>.<br />
CY: Values refer to non-residential building permits issued from 2003-2009 (and % refers to 900 m 2 of surface area)<br />
SI: The data refer to all real estate units in non-residential use<br />
EE, LT: Values based on estimations by national experts<br />
From this table, it can be deduced that policy measures applied only to non-residential <strong>buildings</strong> over 1000 m 2<br />
in floor area would miss a substantial portion of <strong>buildings</strong> in many countries, especially in educational<br />
<strong>buildings</strong>, hospitals and offices. Policy measures however applied to <strong>buildings</strong> over 200 m 2 (for instance<br />
in offices) would hit <strong>the</strong> majority of <strong>buildings</strong> in most countries. The largest non-residential <strong>buildings</strong> are<br />
typically hospitals, followed by educational <strong>buildings</strong> and sports facilities while in wholesale, retail, hotels<br />
and restaurants <strong>the</strong> distribution is more even across <strong>the</strong> different size bands.<br />
Table 1B1 is continued on next page<br />
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