Craig A. Langston
Published 2005
Softcover 250 pages
AUD$50.25
ISBN: 978086840694

This book provides a comprehensive general text on cost estimation and planning for building projects. Designers and quantity surveyors are charged with the task of creating efficient buildings in terms of life cycles. That is, achieving efficiency and economic value in the design, construction and operation phases of the building.

The book considers and expresses the concepts of value in philosophical terms, so as to instil the most comprehensive understanding of value, an entity that is as broad as it is important. The components of the text cover concepts such as discounted cash flow analysis, life cost planning and analysis, sustainability, occupancy, and time value as money. For the benefit of the reader, review questions, exercises and case examples are provided.