Environmentally sustainable development: a life-cycle costing approach for a commercial office building in Melbourne, Australia
Aye, L.
Environmentally sustainable development: a life-cycle costing approach for a commercial office building in Melbourne, Australia - 2000 - Construction Management and Economics 18(8) December 2000, 927-934(8) .
A worked example comparing a range of property and construction options using life-cycle costing methodology, using the do-nothing option and a hypothetical option to construct a new building on a ideal site as benchmarks. The key issues discussed include location, commercial viability, ownership and tenure, embodied energy, operating energy and transport energy. The results show that although renovating the existing building has the lowest financial costs the environmental costs are such that the most sustainable option is to build new premises on a suitable site. Includes hypothetical costings and references.
CONSTRUCTION PROCESS
COSTS
ENERGY
ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS
LIFE CYCLE COSTING
OFFICE BUILDINGS
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Environmentally sustainable development: a life-cycle costing approach for a commercial office building in Melbourne, Australia - 2000 - Construction Management and Economics 18(8) December 2000, 927-934(8) .
A worked example comparing a range of property and construction options using life-cycle costing methodology, using the do-nothing option and a hypothetical option to construct a new building on a ideal site as benchmarks. The key issues discussed include location, commercial viability, ownership and tenure, embodied energy, operating energy and transport energy. The results show that although renovating the existing building has the lowest financial costs the environmental costs are such that the most sustainable option is to build new premises on a suitable site. Includes hypothetical costings and references.
CONSTRUCTION PROCESS
COSTS
ENERGY
ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS
LIFE CYCLE COSTING
OFFICE BUILDINGS
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT