Building Economics Appraisal and control of building design cost and efficiency / by Ivor H. Seeley.

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...

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Main Author: Seeley, Ivor H. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Macmillan Education UK : Imprint: Red Globe Press, 1996.
Edition:4th ed. 1996.
Series:Building and Surveying Series
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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.