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"Offers an improved companion website with tutorial worksheets for lecturers and Interactive spreadsheets for students, e.g. development appraisal models; lifecycle costing models"--
List of contents
About the Authors vii
Contributors to the Ninth Edition viii
Preface to the First Edition ix
Preface to the Ninth Edition x
Acknowledgements xi
Nomenclature and Acronyms xii
About the Companion Website xiv
INTRODUCTION
1. An Overview of Cost Planning 3
2. Building Information Modelling 13
3. A Three-Stage Cost Planning Strategy 23
PHASE I: COST PLANNING AT THE BRIEFING STAGE
4. Developers' Motivations and Needs 31
5. Client Identification and the Briefing Process: Aligning the Client Need with the Brief and the Budget 39
6. The Economics of Cost Planning: The Time Value of Money and Cash Flow 59
7. Whole Life Planning: The Methodology of Whole Life Cycle Costing and Design for Sustainability 75
8. Construction Procurement and the Relationship with Project Costs 91
PHASE II: COST PLANNING AT THE DESIGN STAGE
9. The Design Process and the Project Life Cycle 109
10. Standard Methods of Cost Modelling in Design 128
11. Cost and Performance Data: Sourcing and Application to the Cost Plan 160
12. Construction Cost Indices 182
13. Cost Planning the Brief 195
14. Cost Planning at the Scheme Design Stage 209
PHASE III: COST PLANNING AND CONTROL AT PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONAL STAGES
15. Planning and Managing Project Resources and Costs 231
16. Resource-Based Cost Models 257
17. Cost Control (1): Final Design and Production Drawing Stage 270
18. Cost Control (2): Real Time 280
19. Cost Planning and Control of Refurbishment, Life Cycle Renewal and Repair Work 300
Appendix: Discounting and interest formulae and tables 307
Index 317
About the author
Richard Kirkham is a Lecturer in Engineering Project Management. Prior to his appointment at the University of Manchester, he held the post of Lecturer in Quantity Surveying and Construction Management (Liverpool John Moores University, 2004-2008), Research Officer (School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science, Cranfield University, 2002-2004) and Research Assistant (School of Architecture, University of Liverpool, 2001-2002).
He has published widely in the fields of whole life costs, stochastic service life prediction and quantitative techniques in performance measurement, and is co-author of two texts on building/engineering cost modelling. He is scientific secretary of CIB-TG62 Complex Systems and the Built Environment, and co-managing editor of RICS Research Innovation in the Built Environment. In 2005, Dr Kirkham was appointed as Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and immediate past-chair of the Liverpool Centre Chartered Institute of Building.
Summary
This new edition of the classic quantity surveying textbook retains its basic structure but has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent changes in the industry, especially in procurement.
