Whole of Life Cycle Cost Guide

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Whole of Life Cost Guide

This tool allows users to see the total life-cycle costs over the full life of a building
element, including capital costs, maintenance & capital replacement.

  • As a user you will have the ability to quickly work out all the costs associated with design / component alternatives offers the best value to the long-term operation of a building.
  • User can undertake comparisons between competing elements (e.g. carpet vs. tiles) over a nominated time-frame. The output includes NPV comparisons, cash-flows and depreciation schedules.
  • Users can access comprehensive catalogue of items DC2O currently holds for comparison purpose or to use as a starting point for customise models
Functions
Principle Benefits / Features
Whole of life cycle costing
  • Calculate whole of life cycle cost for a specific building element or component design
  • Provides real numbers on the true long-term cost
Comparative evaluation
between different models
or design alternative
  • Allows for comparative evaluation between different models or design alternative
  • Demonstrates specific cost difference
Reporting / outputs
  • Produces building element specific cashflows by cost types and depreciation schedules
  • Outputs provided in many formats to promote wide usage of information

Case Studies

Case Study 1 - Single Element

Example of the Output Calculations for a 23kW CRAC Unit

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Case Study 2 - Comparison Between Elements

Simple Example of Output for a comparison model for 3 different floor-covering choices

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