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
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