Building Design Cost Management
The key stages at which the models have been built are currently based on the RIBA Plan of Work as referred to in the text. The user by clicking on to each of the key stage headings can see the various decisions that have been made, the BCIS information that has been used and the resultant cost model at the level of detail appropriate to the particular key stage. Within each of these models the users may, if they so wish, adjust the models by substituting their own design parameters for those developed by the authors.
The models and the decisions that have been made in their establishment all follow a similar format:
Time management
The models are all based on an electronics factory recently constructed in the North West of England. They have been established at the key stages in the development of the design solutions thus showing the gradual expansion of detail in the design cost management process as the design solution develops, culminating in the models that are built at the cost checking process to complete the design cost management process.
In establishing the various models information from the BCIS database has been used where appropriate supplemented by the authors' own experience and other information sources where required.
The reader can also access powerpoint slides available as information for lecturers from the home page
Website Development Partners
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| Building Cost Information Services |
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| BCIS Online |
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| Liverpool JMU |
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| Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors |
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| The University of Melbourne |
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| Edith Cowan University |