So if the total costs to build a 10,000 square foot building was $2,000,000, then the cost per square foot would be $200 per square foot. Operations costs are entirely different expenses, but are also often expressed in terms of square feet.or the most common office building size, two to four stories tall, the range is from just over $130 per square foot in Winston-Salem to over $230 per square foot in New York.
A rod is an ancient land measurement of approximately 5m in length. A square rod is about 25 sq m. It is said that a rod was originally defined as the total length of the left feet of the first sixteen men to leave church on Sunday morning. It is also sometimes known as a pole or a perch.
A surveyors rod is 16.5 feet. A surveyors chain is four rods, or 66 feet. An acre is ten square chains. Now go measure out 66 feet, or measure your house and look at how much 66 feet is in comparison, and think of ten times that area square.