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Life-Cost Approach to Building Evaluation

 Life-Cost Approach to Building Evaluation
Item #: 165-6307-05
Author: Craig Langston
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN:0-7506-6630-7
Format: Paperback
 Your Price: $53.95

Learn the fundamentals of the life-cost approach to building evaluation
Life-Cost Approach To Building Evaluation addresses the fundamentals of life-cost studies in the built environment. Easy-to-read and comprehensive, this book 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.

Complete with illustrations and examples, this innovative book provides a holistic approach to evaluation that integrates life-costing to broader social and environmental criteria. 256 pp.

Features:

  • Presentation materials to facilitate face-to-face and online learning
  • Review questions
  • Worked tutorial exercises
  • Example examination papers
  • 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

Life-Cost Approach to Building Evaluation - Table of Contents:

  • 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
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