Life-Cost Approach to Building Evaluation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781138464629)

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.

Author: Craig Langston
ISBN-10: 1138464627
ISBN-13: 9781138464629
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2017
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover