Total LCC and Sustainable Construction

A fresh presentation was made by Olavi TUPAMÄKI in the Plenary Meeting of the CEN-STAR Committee (European Committee for Standardisation, Committee for Standardisation & Research), 26 May 2004 Brussels, Belgium. See our Online Bookshop.

Additional new EU reports on sustainable construction and related subjects are now available in our Online Bookshop. Free of charge, of course.

LCC in Construction - New Recommendations and Future Views

A facsimile article in Rakennustekniikka December 2003 (The Finnish Civil Engineering & Construction Journal, see http://www.ril.fi/Resource.phx/english/newspaper.htx) the leading construction design magazine in Finland. This article, written by Olavi TUPAMÄKI, covers (1) the ongoing development towards new ISO standards 15686 "Buildings and constructed assets - Service life planning", (2) "LCC in Construction" a brand new EU guide, (3) new ideas about discount rates for different stakeholders, and (4) new development in probabilistic approach to future costs and performance.

PDF document: LCC in Construction - New Recommendations and Future Views [2,105 kB].

Total LCC - Good for the Construction and Real Estate Cluster - CREC?
Symposium 04 Sep 2003 Helsinki, FI

A symposium "Total LCC - Good for the Construction and Real Estate Cluster - CREC?" was held 04 Sep 2003, Helsinki FI. The symposium was organised by Villa Real Ltd/SA, an engineering and consulting company with advanced knowledge and understanding about sustainable development, sustainable construction in particular.

The symposium was in association with "Probabilistic approach for predicting life cycle costs and performance of buildings and civil infrastructure - EuroLifeForm", a 3.8 MEUR European RTD project partly funded by the European Union. Here Villa Real is the originator and a major partner.

In the symposium, a cutting edge state-of-the-art and future views of life cycle costing in construction were presented. To see the executive summary of the symposium, go to the next page, Total LCC.

The Symposium Proceedings are now available in our Online Bookshop.