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Aye, L, Bamford, N, Charters, B and Robinson, J (2000) Environmentally sustainable development: a life-cycle costing approach for a commercial office building in Melbourne, Australia. Construction Management and Economics, 18(08), 927-34.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: building accommodation; options energy efficiency; greenhouse gas emissions; life-cycle costing
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/014461900446885
  • Abstract:

    A range of property and construction options is analysed using standard life-cycle costing methodology. The options are to renovate the existing building, buy an alternative building and renovate, and buy a development site and construct a new building. The do-nothing option and a hypothetical option to construct a new building on an ideal site are analysed as benchmarks. The results show that the optimum option is to buy a suitable site and construct a new building and that the least sustainable option, in the case study, is to stay in the existing property and renovate the building. Although staying in the existing building and doing nothing carries the lowest financial cost, energy consumption and greenhouse emissions are significantly worse than for the alternative options.

Boonstra, C and Knapen, M (2000) Knowledge infrastructure for sustainable building in The Netherlands. Construction Management and Economics, 18(08), 885-91.

Chau, C K, Lee, W L, Yik, F W H and Burnett, J (2000) Towards a successful voluntary building environmental assessment scheme. Construction Management and Economics, 18(08), 959-68.

Cole, R J (2000) Building environmental assessment methods: assessing construction practices. Construction Management and Economics, 18(08), 949-57.

Graham, P (2000) Building education for the next industrial revolution: teaching and learning environmental literacy for the building professions. Construction Management and Economics, 18(08), 917-25.

Kibert, C J, Sendzimir, J and Guy, B (2000) Construction ecology and metabolism: natural system analogues for a sustainable built environment. Construction Management and Economics, 18(08), 903-16.

Lavers, A P and Shiers, D E (2000) Construction law and environmental harm: the liability interface. Construction Management and Economics, 18(08), 893-902.

Ofori, G, Briffett, C, Gang, G and Ranasinghe, M (2000) Impact of ISO 14000 on construction enterprises in Singapore. Construction Management and Economics, 18(08), 935-47.