Ferry and Brandon's Cost Planning of Buildings

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.

• About the Authors viiContributors to the Ninth Edition viiiPreface to the First Edition ixPreface to the Ninth Edition xAcknowledgements xiNomenclature and Acronyms xiiAbout the Companion Website xivIntroduction1. An Overview of Cost Planning 32. Building Information Modelling 133. A Three-Stage Cost Planning Strategy 23Phase I: Cost Planning at the Briefing Stage4. Developers’ Motivations and Needs 315. Client Identification and the Briefing Process: Aligning the Client Need with the Brief and the Budget 396. The Economics of Cost Planning: The Time Value of Money and Cash Flow 597. Whole Life Planning: The Methodology of Whole Life Cycle Costing and Design for Sustainability 758. Construction Procurement and the Relationship with Project Costs 91Phase II: Cost Planning at the Design Stage9. The Design Process and the Project Life Cycle 10910. Standard Methods of Cost Modelling in Design 12811. Cost and Performance Data: Sourcing and Application to the Cost Plan 16012. Construction Cost Indices 18213. Cost Planning the Brief 19514. Cost Planning at the Scheme Design Stage 209Phase III: Cost Planning and Control at Production and Operational Stages15. Planning and Managing Project Resources and Costs 23116. Resource-Based Cost Models 25717. Cost Control (1): Final Design and Production Drawing Stage 27018. Cost Control (2): Real Time 28019. Cost Planning and Control of Refurbishment, Life Cycle Renewal and Repair Work 300Appendix: Discounting and interest formulae and tables 307Index 317