Building Design Cost Management

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Chapter Eight

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:

• Introduce the reader to the processes used by the construction economist at the working drawing stage
• Identify the type of design information produced by the design team at this stage
• Introduces the reader to the difficulty in establishing the validity of the cost targets for specialised works
• Introduce value engineering terms
• Discuss the concept of price and design risk

Chapter 8 Reader reflections

	Introduce the reader to the processes used by the construction economist at the working drawing stage Identify the type of design information produced by the design team at this stage Introduces the reader to the difficulty in establishing the vailidity of cost targets for specialised works Introduce value engineering terms Discuss the concepts of price and design risk
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