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Al-Hajj, A and Horner, M W (1998) Modelling the running costs of buildings. Construction Management and Economics, 16(04), 459-70.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: cost-significance; life-cycle cost; maintenance cost; operating cost
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/014461998372231
  • Abstract:

    The Building Maintenance Cost Information Service (BMCIS) offers a comprehensive and rigorous framework for collecting data about the running costs of buildings. Nevertheless, it is pitched at such a level of detail that the amount of data collected and analysed may be constrained. This paper describes the development and testing of a novel technique which reduces the amount of data to be collected without any unacceptable reduction in utility. It draws on the principle of cost-significance to create a simple model of maintenance and operating costs (together called running costs) from a rare and consistent set of data for 20 buildings at York University. The model contains only 11 elements yet can predict the total running costs of each of four categories of building to an accuracy of about 2 1/2 %. It can also predict annual costs to about 7%, despite variations in the periodicity of costs such as painting and insurance. The model was tested using the jacknife method and on virgin data. It proved to be extremely robust, predicting the running costs of 12 new buildings to within 5%. The model offers a simple framework for collecting and analysing reliable and consistent data on running costs.

Boussabaine, A H and Kaka, A P (1998) A neural networks approach for cost-flow forecasting. Construction Management and Economics, 16(04), 471-9.

Crosthwaite, D (1998) Note - The internationalization of British construction companies 1990-1996: an empirical analysis. Construction Management and Economics, 16(04), 389-95.

El-Rayes, K and Moselhi, O (1998) Resource-driven scheduling of repetitive activities. Construction Management and Economics, 16(04), 443-6.

Gowda, R, Singh, A and Connolly, M (1998) Holistic enhancement of the production analysis of bituminous paving operations. Construction Management and Economics, 16(04), 417-32.

Lingard, H and Rowlinson, S M (1998) Behaviour-based safety management in Hong Kong's construction industry: the results of a field study. Construction Management and Economics, 16(04), 481-8.

Marsh, L and Finch, E (1998) Note - Attitudes towards auto-ID technologies within the UK construction industry. Construction Management and Economics, 16(04), 383-8.

McCabe, S, Rooke, J D, Seymour, D E and Brown, P (1998) Quality managers, authority and leadership. Construction Management and Economics, 16(04), 447-57.

Notman, D, Norman, G, Flanagan, R and Agapiou, A (1998) A time-series analysis of UK annual and quarterly construction output data (1955-1995). Construction Management and Economics, 16(04), 409-16.

Ofori, G and Debrah, Y A (1998) Flexible management of operatives in the Singapore construction industry. Construction Management and Economics, 16(04), 397-408.

Shi, J and AbouRizk, S M (1998) Continuous and combined event-process models for simulating pipeline construction. Construction Management and Economics, 16(04), 489-98.