Building cost planning for the design team /
Jim Smith, David Jaggar and Peter Love, with Oluwole Alfred Olatunji.
- 3rd edition.
- xiii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Context: -- 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 Design Stages: -- Cost Planning the Predesign (Briefing) Stage -- Cost Planning the Concept Design (Outline Proposals) Stage -- Cost Planning the Developed Design (Sketch Design) Stage -- Cost Planning the Technical Design (Documentation) Stage. Part A. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Part B. 7. 8. 9. 10.
The central thesis of this book defines cost planning as a team responsibility and it attempts to broaden the limited vision of conventional cost planning by considering such issues as value, use, and effectiveness of the completed building.
9781138907379 1138907375
2015036577
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