Building Economics: Appraisal and Control of Building Design Cost and Efficiency (Macmillan Building and Surveying Series) - Softcover

Seeley, Ivor H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333350391 ISBN 13: 9780333350393

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1983

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0333350391
• ISBN 13: 9780333350393
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 419