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Design and the Economics of Building [BL1173]

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An understanding of how the design and construction processes interact to determine the cost and quality of buildings is essential to architects, builders and surveyors. Design and the Economics of Building is a text for students in all the built environment fields. It takes a fresh approach to the important issues involved in the building process and their relationship to each other, dealing among other topics with: the cost and construction implications of design decisions; the way design affects, and is affected by, the construction process; the economics of building's essential resources - labour, materials, technology and management; the cost of energy efficiency; methods of cost prediction and control; procurement systems and their implications for cost, time and quality; information flow between designers, surveyors and contractors; the value of buildings, determined by market and social criteria. With its wide scope, readability and generous use of examples and references to recent projects, Design and the Economics of Building will be of interest to all those concerned with the built environment as well as being an essential text for architecture, surveying and construction management students.


Contents: Introduction. Part One:Basic issues in the design and economics of building The economic significance of building design. Value for money - whose responsibility? The structure of building costs - a first approach. Part Two:The economic context: materials, labour and physical capital: Materials: markets and prices. Human resouces for building.Technology: from steampower to robots. Construction - a unique industry? Part Three:Economic aspects of design decisions: Costs and choices:the short term and the long term. Concept, shape, plan: morphology and cost. Structure and envelope. Energy and services. Part Four: Relating design choices to building and its management: Programme, cash flow and buildability. Cost prediction - science or guesswork? The procurement of buildings. Part Five:Cost limits and values. Commercial values and the property market. Values, cost limits and prices: the case of housing. The value of architecture. Appendix 1. Introduction to the tender price and building cost indices. Appendix 2. SfB classification: basic tables. Appendix 3. Example of a cost plan. References and Bibliography.
Design and the Economics of Building
Author:  Morton, R.
Date Published:  August 1995
Document Type:  Books
Format:  Paperback
ISBN:  041919200X
ISBN13:  9780419192008
Pages:  440
Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Ltd
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