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Whole Life Costing for Sustainable Building (Hardcover)
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Whole Life Costing for Sustainable Building (Hardcover)
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Whole life costing is now integral to building procurement, both
for new buildings and major refurbishments. It is key when
assessing investment scenarios for estates as well as individual
buildings, and has become a tool for justifying higher capital cost
items. Standard whole life costing methods combine capital cost,
facilities costs, operational costs, income and disposal costs with
a "single action-single benefit" approach. Costing based on this
type of single attribute assessment misses out on realising value
from the intricacies of the interactions buildings have with their
occupants, users and the location in which they are placed. In
contrast, the multi-attribute approach presented by the author of
this book explains how to analyse the whole cost of a building,
while also taking into account secondary and tertiary values of a
variety of actions that are deemed important for the project owners
and decision-making stakeholders. The process is an effective tool
for presenting a good business case within the opportunities and
constrains of real life. For example, it presents the
interdependencies of how: Building location affects servicing
strategies which impact on maintainability and control and, by
extension, on occupant comfort; Material selection affects time on
site, building maintainability as well as overall building quality
and the environment; Building shape impacts on servicing strategies
as well as operating costs. The reader will be shown how to
incorporate this method of whole life valuation into standard cost
models allowing for a more robust decision making process. This is
done by breaking down project aims into their most basic aspects
and adopting the methods of simple quantitative risk analysis, the
functionality of which is based on real data. Written by an author
immersed in project team collaboration to identify the
interdependencies of design decisions throughout her professional
life, this is the most practical guide available on the topic.
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