Life-Cost Approach to Building Evaluation
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Life-Cost Approach to Building Evaluation

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Life-Cost Approach to Building Evaluation

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781138464629
eBook ISBN
9781135392772

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. PREFACE
  6. CHAPTER 1 A TOTAL COST APPROACH
  7. CHAPTER 2 THE TIME VALUE OF MONEY
  8. CHAPTER 3 DISCOUNTED CASH FLOW ANALYSIS
  9. CHAPTER 4 LIFE-COST PLANNING
  10. CHAPTER 5 LIFE-COST ANALYSIS
  11. CHAPTER 6 CHANGE IN WORTH
  12. CHAPTER 7 REAL AND EQUIVALENT VALUE
  13. CHAPTER 8 LIFE-COSTING IN PRACTICE
  14. CHAPTER 9 OCCUPANCY COSTS
  15. CHAPTER 10 SUSTAINABILITY IMPLICATIONS
  16. CHAPTER 11 ADDING VALUE
  17. CHAPTER 12 HOLISTIC PROJECT APPRAISAL
  18. APPENDIX 1 LIFE-COST CALCULATIONS
  19. APPENDIX 2 CASE STUDY
  20. APPENDIX 3 SAMPLE EXAMINATION PAPERS
  21. TUTORIAL WORKED EXAMPLES
  22. GLOSSARY OF TERMS
  23. RECOMMENDED READING
  24. INDEX