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Controlling Cost of Ownership from Design Throughout the Service Life of Public Buildings

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309044813
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309583213
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1991
  • Month: January
  • Pages: 73
  • DDC: 690
  • Language: English

Buildings and other public facilities can have very long and productive service lives, providing efficient shelter and serving a wide range of activities. To do so, however, these facilities must be managed effectively, in a manner consistent with key design decisions.

A variety of political and technical obstacles to effective management raise the public's total cost of ownership for these facilities, particularly when actions to deal with short-term government budget deficits have long-term, high-cost consequences.

This book identifies obstacles to controlling the costs of ownership and suggests ways these obstacles can be overcome.

  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Life-Cycle Cost and Its Control
  • 3 Obstacles to Life-Cycle Cost Control
  • 4 Government Facilities and Life-Cycle Costs
  • 5 Controlling Life-Cycle Costs of Ownership
  • Appendix A Glossary
  • Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
  • Appendix C Overview of Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Procedure
  • Appendix D Issues Addressed by a Building Life-Cycle Cost Management System

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