Value for money, comparison of facades

Treanor, Olivia (2014) Value for money, comparison of facades. Bachelors thesis, Dundalk Institute of Technology.

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Abstract

Buildings are an asset, but they require on-going investment in the form of running costs, maintenance and repairs to ensure continued optimised performance and a return on their investment. Building owners mostly see the initial cost of construction and site acquisition as the core element of the building costs. They don’t anticipate the cost of the maintenance and repairs as an on-going concern. Buildings are a lifelong commitment, and will need ongoing maintenance and repairs to keep the building working to its initial designed output. Often too little is thought during the concept of the building on the life cycle costing. This research is seeking to provide an insight to the façade components of a building, as an example of life cycle costing and pursue to find a way to identify the costing methodology of owning and managing a façade, over the life cycle study of that building. Life cycle costing is a method of providing a building owner the information on the overall costs of any building over a required time. In this instance 50 years, is the given timeframe. The nature of this research will not be able to identify every façade type available, and will compare the costs of brick, concrete panel and a structural glazed façade. This research also provides an additional focus on the development of a methodology to test the life cycle costing and the information research that is required to present that task.

Item Type:	Thesis (Bachelors)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Buildings; Maintenance and repair; Life cycle costing; Facade.
Subjects:	Engineering
Research Centres:	UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User:	Sean McGreal
Date Deposited:	04 Aug 2015 12:12
Last Modified:	04 Aug 2015 12:12
URI:	https://eprints.dkit.ie/id/eprint/454

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