
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER 1 A TOTAL COST APPROACH
- CHAPTER 2 THE TIME VALUE OF MONEY
- CHAPTER 3 DISCOUNTED CASH FLOW ANALYSIS
- CHAPTER 4 LIFE-COST PLANNING
- CHAPTER 5 LIFE-COST ANALYSIS
- CHAPTER 6 CHANGE IN WORTH
- CHAPTER 7 REAL AND EQUIVALENT VALUE
- CHAPTER 8 LIFE-COSTING IN PRACTICE
- CHAPTER 9 OCCUPANCY COSTS
- CHAPTER 10 SUSTAINABILITY IMPLICATIONS
- CHAPTER 11 ADDING VALUE
- CHAPTER 12 HOLISTIC PROJECT APPRAISAL
- APPENDIX 1 LIFE-COST CALCULATIONS
- APPENDIX 2 CASE STUDY
- APPENDIX 3 SAMPLE EXAMINATION PAPERS
- TUTORIAL WORKED EXAMPLES
- GLOSSARY OF TERMS
- RECOMMENDED READING
- INDEX