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Office Property
Office property houses administrative, professional or general business work. The use category is separate from a building's quality grade.
Office property provides space for administrative, professional and general business work. Examples include company offices, financial offices and government offices.
The office label describes the activity housed in the building. It does not establish a quality grade. EIA's survey treats medical offices without diagnostic equipment as offices and places those with diagnostic equipment in outpatient healthcare.
Source: EIA CBECS: Office.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does every medical office count as an office building in energy surveys?
No. In EIA's CBECS classification, medical offices using diagnostic equipment fall under outpatient healthcare. That survey boundary should not be treated as a universal real estate or zoning definition.
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