Life-Cost Approach to Building Evaluation
| By: | Craig Langston |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780750666305 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781135392772 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2005 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.