Life-Cost Approach to Building Evaluation

Craig Langston author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:24th Dec '04

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All-encompassing coverage of life-cost analysis in the built environment Written by an experienced teacher to meet the needs of students Heavily illustrated and includes many exercises

Addresses the fundamentals of life-cost studies in the built environment. This work includes the time-value of money, discounted cash-flow analysis, differential price-level movement and affordability fluctuations. It also includes contemporary issues such as occupancy costs, sustainability implications and value.

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.

ISBN: 9780750666305

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 470g

256 pages