Building economics : appraisal and control of building design cost and efficiency / Ivor H. Seeley.
By: Seeley, Ivor H [author]
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BookSeries: Macmillan building and surveying series: Publisher: Hampshire : Macmillan, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Edition: Fourth revised edition.Description: 502 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0333638352 (paperback); 9780333638354 (paperback).Subject(s): Building -- Estimates | Budgeting & financial management | Building skills & trades | Surveying, quantity surveying | Building construction & materialsDDC classification: 690.0681 | 658.1552 SEE | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Barcode | |
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This comprehensively rewritten, updated and extended new edition of this established text focuses on what has become the most important single facet of the quantity surveyor's role - cost management. The scope of the book has been broadened to take account of the widening and more sophisticated cost management and control service that clients now require. The book examines the factors influencing building costs and how the precontract costs can be estimated, analysed and controlled, to ensure that buildings can be completed within the agreed budget and timescale, and be of acceptable quality, function effectively and provide value for money. A new chapter on value management has been added, together with an introductory chapter on cost modelling; the chapter on life cycling costing is extended, while the sections on energy conservation and occupancy costs are expanded. Throughout the text many new case studies, with supporting tables and diagrams, are included in order to enhance the value of this book to the student and the practitioner.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-498) and index.
The concept of cost control -- Cost implications of design variables and quality assurance -- Functional requirements and cost implications of constructional methods -- Influence of site and market conditions and economics of prefabrication, industrialised and system building -- Economics of Residential Development -- Approximate Estimating -- Cost Planning theories and techniques -- Cost modelling -- Cost analyses, indices and data -- Practical application of cost control techniques -- Value management -- Valuation Processes -- Life cycle costing -- Land use and value determinants -- Economics of Building development -- Environmental economics and the construction industry.
This revised and updated edition focuses on an important facet of the quantity surveyor's role - cost management. The scope of the book has been broadened to take account of the widening and more sophisticated cost management and control service that clients now require.
CIT Module BULD 7009- Core reading.