BUILDING ECONOMICS Appraisal and control of building design cost and efficiency

• Main Author: Seeley, Ivor H (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan 1996
• Edition: Fourth edition
• Series: Building and Surveying Series
• Subjects: Building > Estimates > Great Britain; Construction Management
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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...

Table of Contents:

• Preface.- The Concept of Cost Control.- Cost Implications of Design.- Variables Functional Requirements and Cost Implications of Construction.- Methods Influence of Site and Market Conditions and Economics of Prefabrication and 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 Appendices.- References.- Index.