Life-Cost Approach to Building Evaluation

ISBN-13: 9781138464629 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 256 str.

Craig 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