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Building cost planning for the design team

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: Oxon Routledge 2016Edition: 3rd edDescription: 388p. 24cmISBN:
  • 9781138907379
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 658.1552
Contents:
Building and construction industry characteristics -- The development process -- Design economics -- An overview of cost-planning stages -- Sources of building cost data -- Building information modelling -- Cost planning the pre-stage (briefing) stage -- Cost planning the concept design (outline proposals) stage -- Cost planning the development design (sketch design) stage -- Cost planning the technical design (documentation) stage
Summary: Considers building cost planning and cost control from the client and the design team's perspective, where all decisions whether concerned with design, cost, quality, time, value or sustainability are taken as being interrelated. Follows the building design cost planning process from the crucial inception stages and then through all the design stages to the completion of the technical design, contract documentation and the tender. It provides a template for good cost planning practice. An addition to this third edition is the introduction of integrated design and documentation processes captured in building information modelling (BIM), on-line cost databases and computerised methods of cost planning.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Book London Books 658.1552 SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 30078867

Building and construction industry characteristics -- The development process -- Design economics -- An overview of cost-planning stages -- Sources of building cost data -- Building information modelling -- Cost planning the pre-stage (briefing) stage -- Cost planning the concept design (outline proposals) stage -- Cost planning the development design (sketch design) stage -- Cost planning the technical design (documentation) stage

Considers building cost planning and cost control from the client and the design team's perspective, where all decisions whether concerned with design, cost, quality, time, value or sustainability are taken as being interrelated. Follows the building design cost planning process from the crucial inception stages and then through all the design stages to the completion of the technical design, contract documentation and the tender. It provides a template for good cost planning practice. An addition to this third edition is the introduction of integrated design and documentation processes captured in building information modelling (BIM), on-line cost databases and computerised methods of cost planning.