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Building Design Cost Management

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Andy Ross | Dave Jaggar | Jim Smith | Peter Love
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Building Design Cost Management

Chapter Ten

This section of the site aims to provide the reader reflections as published in the text. Further reader reflections will be added to these pages as the website develops.

Introduction

This chapter aims to:

Reader Reflects Chapter 10
  • Review the design information and list the decisions that have been taken already that will have a major impact upon the likely costs of the proposed building. Categorise these decisions and suggest some reasons why they may change
  • Review the cost analysis for factory A and list the elemental features that could lead to inaccurate allowances being made in the group elemental cost plan
  • Search through your proce books to constrast the differering costs of timber, steel and stair solutions
  • Think about the fire protection required for timber staircases that is integral in a concrete solution
  • The reader is recommended to refer to price book information and also browse the specification information on the cost analyses to get a feel for the types of service installation and the costs per metre of GFA
  • Assess the percentage service costs form of the total costs of various types of buildings

 

Chapter 10 Reader reflections
  • Review the elemental cost analyses on the website and highlight the features that are similar to the case study. How would you take these differences into account when arriving at a cost target for each of the elements?
  • What problems do you consider are inherent in the techniques of applying Tender Price Index and Locational index adjustments to reflect the Price Risk?
  • What are the local market conditions that apply to your region at the moment?
  • When considering Design Risk, how would you analyse historic analyses to ensure that a sound understanding of the quality of the project's designs is developed?
  • Review the cost analysis information. What can you deduce from the preliminary costs of these past projects?
  • The processes discussed in this chapter have focused on price design. How would they change if the design team were designing to a price?
  • The processes of design cost management rely upon a great deal of discussion between the design team, client and construction economist. How would you record these flows of information?

If you feel you would like to add a reflection at this stage, please email the authors

A.D.Ross

 

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