Building Economics: Appraisal and Control of Building Design Cost and Efficiency

ISBN-13: 9780333638354 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 520 str.

Ivor Seeley

Opis

This comprehensively rewritten, updated and extended new edition of this established text focuses on what has become the most important single facet of the quantity surveyor's role - cost management. The scope of the book has been broadened to take account of the widening and more sophisticated cost management and control service that clients now require. The book examines the factors influencing building costs and how the precontract costs can be estimated, analysed and controlled, to ensure that buildings can be completed within the agreed budget and timescale, and be of acceptable quality, function effectively and provide value for money. A new chapter on value management has been added, together with an introductory chapter on cost modelling; the chapter on life cycling costing is extended, while the sections on energy conservation and occupancy costs are expanded. Throughout the text many new case studies, with supporting tables and diagrams, are included in order to enhance the value of this book to the student and the practitioner.

Spis treści

Preface.- The Concept of Cost Control.- Cost Implications of Design.- Variables Functional Requirements and Cost Implications of Construction.- Methods Influence of Site and Market Conditions and Economics of Prefabrication and Industrialised and System.- Building Economics of Residential Development.- Approximate Estimating Cost Planning.- Theories and Techniques.- Cost Modelling.- Cost Analyses, Indices and Data Practical Application of Cost Control Techniques.- Value Management.- Valuation Processes.- Life Cycle Costing.- Land Use and Value Determinants.- Economics of Building Development.- Environmental Economics and the Construction.- Industry Appendices.- References.- Index.