Life-Cost Approach to Building Evaluation

ISBN-13: 9780750666305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str.

Craig A. Langston

Opis

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.

Spis treści

•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

O autorze

Langston, Craig