The clients of most large contractors are typically as varied as the buildings they have us construct. Some buyers of construction are satisfied if they can simply get a building erected as quickly as ...

In an effort to improve the energy efficiency of buildings, the Continental Automated Buildings Association says it has released a research report called "Life Cycle Costing of Intelligent Buildings." ...

Many people and organizations talk about “minimum life cycle cost per hour” or “minimum hourly cost of ownership.” Few know exactly what they are talking about, and few, if any, provide the tools ...

Life cycle cost optioneering is a way of assessing alternative design options, analyzing their long-term capital and operational costs to identify those with the lowest price tag, over the entire life ...

Las Vegas Valley Water District measures cost per mile, says fleet manager James Morwood, and life-cycle costing enabled the district to radically reduce that benchmark. Now, as LCC is fully ...

Rome wasn’t built overnight, and federal-level projects are no different, with some taking over a decade to complete and costing taxpayers upwards of $1.5 billion. At a recent roundtable discussion ...

Abandoned structures, both by government and the public, abound all over Nigeria with a common denominator of not taking into consideration the costs associated with such projects in the short and ...