1st Edition

Life-Cost Approach to Building Evaluation

By Craig Langston Copyright 2005
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    •A Total Cost Approach •The Time Value of Money •Discounted Cash Flow Analysis •Life-Cost Planning •Life-Cost Analysis •Change in Worth •Real and Equivalent Value •Life-Costing in Practice •Occupancy Costs •Sustainability Implications •Adding Value •Holistic Project Appraisal •Life-Cost Calculations

    Biography

    Langston, Craig