Whole life costing analysis
Whole life costing sees beyond lowest first cost taking into account running costs, energy, maintenance and replacementBSRIA offers consultancy to help clients, design consultants or contractors apply whole life costing analysis for their specific projects or bid proposals. This consultancy can be applied in a number of ways:
- define a methodology for the team to follow
- develop the whole life costing models
- build and run the models using data supplied by the project team
This consultancy service benefits from BSRIA's independence. For clients it means that our advice is not influenced by the desire to promote a particular technical solution or product. For project teams, BSRIA is in a position to challenge the written and unwritten assumptions in the brief, the technical solutions and the detailed design.
Whole life costing can be linked to other forms of assessment for prospective projects or alternative designs, such as BREEAM assessments and business-focused maintenance advice.
BSRIA also runs theory and practical Whole Life Costing training courses and has published a Guide to Whole Life Costing Analysis.
