Life-Cost Approach to Building Evaluation
Business & Finance, Economics, Microeconomics, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology, Construction & Construction Trades, Art & Architecture, Architecture
| Author: | Craig Langston | ISBN: | 9781135392772 |
| Publisher: | CRC Press | Publication: | October 11, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Craig Langston |
| ISBN: | 9781135392772 |
| Publisher: | CRC Press |
| Publication: | October 11, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
