Life-cost approach to building evaluation comprehensively addresses in a reader-friendly, accessible way the fundamentals of life-cost studies in the built environment. It includes the time-value of money, discounted cash-flow analysis, differential price-level movement and affordability fluctuations. Contemporary issues such as occupancy costs, sustainability implications and value adding are also addressed. Replete with illustrations and examples, this innovative book provides a holistic approach to evaluation that integrates life-costing to broader social and environmental criteria. Important features include: - presentation materials to facilitate face-to-face and online learning - review questions - worked tutorial exercises, and - example examination papers.Operating costs can also be collected by year to produce a cash flow useful for forward planning and control. ... plan, tender document life-cost plan, design cost summary and examples of a cost check, activity report, management action plan and value management study. ... LIFECOST is a Microsoft Excel template developed originally by Computerelation Australia Pty Limited and available via the authoranbsp;...
Title | : | Life-Cost Approach to Building Evaluation |
Author | : | Craig Langston |
Publisher | : | Routledge - 2013-10-11 |
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