gross square footage

gross square footage

The total number of square feet of a building,measuring from the outside of the exterior walls and including all floors.The term is generally encountered in an institutional setting where the ratio of head count to gross square footage of buildings is important for determining capacity and the need to construct more buildings.
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The company believes that it owns and operates one of the largest portfolios of multi-tenant data centers in the United States, as measured by gross square footage, and has the capacity to more than double its leased raised floor square footage without constructing any new buildings.
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One of the problems she had encountered was that schools often base their calculations of square footage per child on the gross square footage of the entire school.
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