Cost Data – Page 21
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FeaturesLifetime costs: renders
With so many render options out there, how do you choose the one you need? Peter Mayer of Building Performance Group examines the key issues and outlines the whole-life costs of three alternatives
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Lifetime costs: masonry walls
The higher costs of making sure your masonry wall complies with Part L are partially offset by annual savings in energy costs. But by how much? We do the sums
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Cost model: Supermarkets
Supermarkets are among the UK’s top 10 construction clients. In this cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest and Mott Green Wall examine the costs, specification and procurement of new build and existing stores
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Cost update: June 2003
Davis Langdon & Everest focuses on how much to pay for structural steelwork and carcassing timber in three UK regions, and reports back on the latest pay deals – particularly for plumbers
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Lifetime costs: Part M access
What is the most cost-effective way to deal with disabled access for new or existing buildings? Peter Mayer of Building Performance Group considers the whole-life costs of implementing the proposed Part M
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Lifetime costs: Secured by Design
What is the most cost-effective way of reducing criminal damage to property? We consider the whole-life costs of Secured by Design standards for housing refurbishment
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Archive Titles
Corporation may consider 'lifetime costs' of buildings
Change to total cost indicator would help associations fund energy-efficient homes
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FeaturesSpecialist costs: Office fit-out
Although demand for new-build office space has plummeted in the past two years, one particular office sector is active and competitive. In this model, Davis Langdon & Everest, services cost consultant Mott Green & Wall and property tax specialist NBW Crosher & James examine the falling costs of fit-out
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FeaturesCost study: Chipping Norton leisure centre
The community of Chipping Norton was sorely missing a place to exercise. Architect Feilden Clegg Bradley brought the town right up to date with a design that favoured local materials and sunlight
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Lifetime costs: pitched roofs
You've got your pitched roof, but how do you cover it? Peter Mayer of Building Performance Group considers the whole-life costs of a variety of roofing options, from bitumen to concrete to metal to tiling …
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Cost update: March 2003
We focus on the cost of brick and blockwork, glances at the latest materials price changes and works out how much to pay a sparks
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International costs: 2003
Gardiner & Theobald’s 11th annual survey of global construction costs takes a look at labour rates, building costs, material prices and inflation from Norway to New Zealand
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Lifetime costs: sanitaryware
The choice of sanitaryware in hospitals and healthcare schemes is a crucial one – but how to decide what to go for? Peter Mayer of Building Performance Group examines the whole-life costs of components
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FeaturesCost model update, February 2003
Building cost models are celebrating their 10th birthday. To mark this happy event, we outlines the factors that will be affecting costs in 2003 for 17 of the most common building types
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FeaturesCost study: Max Perutz lecture theatre
The Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge had nowhere for its Nobel Prize-winning scientists to present their research. So architect Feilden + Mawson and quantity surveyor Keegans created an auditorium extension on stilts – and here they reveal the details of how it was done
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FeaturesCost model: High-rise housing refurbishment
The government is reappraising the UK’s social housing in order to meet its decent homes target by 2010. Here, Davis Langdon & Everest examines the costs, key issues and associated problems of refurbishing a tower block
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Cost update: December 2002
In this quarter's Hot Rates, Davis Langdon & Everest throws the spotlight on concrete prices, and overleaf there's an update on the latest labour costs and materials price changes
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LIfetime costs: durable floors
You've got a floor to cover, but which material is going to serve your client best – and for the longest – for the least amount of money? Peter Mayer of the Building Performance Group shines the spotlight on the whole-life costs of PVC, linoleum and carpeting
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FeaturesCost model: 21st-century university building
The government wants 50% of 18-30-year-olds to be educated to degree level by 2010, and expects universities to compete in international research markets. So what buildings are required to help meet these objectives? In its latest cost model, Davis Langdon & Everest examines the 21st-century university building
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FeaturesCost study: Phoenix Natural Gas HQ
Northern Ireland’s gas supplier didn’t want to have to pay astronomical energy bills, fall behind and end up suing itself for its own money. Cartwright Pickard Architects and QS Gardiner & Theobold explain how the team managed to avert this fate by delivering a building that not only achieved a ...