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Here is an overview

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Here is an overview of office building costs for the year 2006, according to http://www.building.co.uk/

Building costs: Offices and industrial (€/m²)
City-centre heated officesCity-centre air-conditioned office
€/m²€/m²floors*€/m²€/m²floors*
Countrylowhigh(typical)lowhigh(typical)
BELGIUM1,4002,126 1,8702,501
CYPRUS1,0471,464 1,2441,745
CZECH REPUBLIC6821,02367511,1956
FINLAND1,3501,70051,4801,8015
FRANCE1,6502,200 2,3002,950
GERMANY9001,27551,1801,6605
GREECE1,0002,196 1,1382,501
HUNGARY59178967108498
IRELAND1,8012,80151,9502,8015
ITALY1,0991,40081,3002,1518
NETHERLANDS1,1791,43061,4411,9138
POLAND6161,006 8041,256
ROMANIA48568557509007
SLOVAKIA46672355949058
SPAINN/AN/A 1,0201,55010
SWEDEN1,0411,35351,4571,7685
UNITED KINGDOM1,5812,04971,9033,2948
ARGENTINAN/AN/A N/AN/A
AUSTRALIA ¹N/AN/A 1,3591,96717
BRAZILN/AN/A 57865620
CHINAN/AN/A 56184535
HONG KONGN/AN/A 1,0691,432
INDIA2244671028050510
INDONESIAN/AN/A 275427
ISRAELN/AN/A 6066887
JAPANN/AN/A 1,6032,17015
LEBANON5126151455566614
MALAYSIAN/AN/A 249486
NEW ZEALANDN/AN/A 1,4041,638
PHILIPPINESN/AN/A 42354930
QATARN/AN/A 8071,11125
SAUDI ARABIAN/AN/A 7741,3207
SINGAPOREN/AN/A 8741,06425
SOUTH AFRICAN/AN/A 61889210
SRI LANKA16119842082344
SULTANATE OF OMANN/AN/A 487843
UNITED ARAB EMIRATESN/AN/A 67580224
VIETNAMN/AN/A 672833
USA ² 2,8505,466
CARIBBEAN ³ 1,6872,4135
* Typical number of storeys has only been provided where identifiied by local offices
¹ Australia figures are an average for Melbourne and Sydney
² USA figures are taken from the New York office only
³ Caribbean figures are an average for the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands
Building type definitions
City-centre heated office Self-contained building of a size and height typical of major cities in country; building costs include for accommodation to a good finish with raised floors, carpet, suspended ceilings, heating, lighting and power, but excluding partitioning
Air-conditioned office Self-contained building of a size and height typical of major cities in country; building costs include for accommodation to a good finish with raised floors, carpet, suspended ceilings, air-conditioning, lighting and power, but excluding partitioning
Factories, warehouses, industrial Large, single storey unit of steel portal frame and profiled aluminium cladding, with an eaves height of at least 6 m, on an out-of-town site, finished to a basic shell with services and heating to the office space (approx 5% of area)
Out-of-town business park Self-contained low-rise building in a campus location. Costs include for high quality cladding and accommodation to a good finish with raised floors, carpet, suspended ceilings, air-conditioning, lighting and power, but excluding partitioning



Source:
http://www.building.co.uk/story_attachment.asp?storycode=3063450&seq=7&type=T&c=1