The development of an IFC‐based lifecycle costing prototype tool for building construction and maintenance: Integrating lifecycle costing to nD modelling
| dc.contributor.author | Changfeng Fu, | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kaya,Sezgin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kagioglou , M | |
| dc.contributor.author | Aouad, Ghassan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-18T12:48:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-18T12:48:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-01-23 | |
| dc.description | The initial capital cost of ownership, also the most visible one, represents only a small proportion of the total cost of ownership (OGC, 2003). The Royal Academy of Engineering (Evans et al., 1998) estimated that the lifecycle cost of a building is five times as much as its initial capital cost. The total cost of ownership, besides acquisition, includes the subsequent support, and maintenance costs. These constitute the lifecycle cost of a facility. Often, focussing on the initial capital costs, clients have difficulties in understanding the inter‐dependant relations between the capital and lifecycle costs of buildings (Barrett and Stanley, 1999). To prevent this confusion, any decision on buildings and their lifecycle should be backed by appropriate lifecycle costing data and procedures which involve complex trade‐off options during the design phase, where the major decisions are made (Akhlaghi, 1987). | |
| dc.description.abstract | Purpose This paper intends to focus on interoperability issues in IT‐based the lifecycle costing (LCC) applications and on improving LCC decision making based on cost performances of various options of constructing techniques and materials, excluding energy calculations. Design/methodology/approach This project mainly is an IT development project based on industry foundation classes (IFC) models. The LCC tool is fully compliant with the system architecture of the nD modelling tool, and is based on the integrated nD modelling interfaces, which are IFC compliant and integrated with an interactive virtual reality environment. The functions of the LCC tool also provide integrated costs, database management and automatic calculations of some complicated LCC algorithms. Findings The advantages identified are as follows: First, this IFC‐based LCC tool demonstrates the interoperable delivery of building design information across different CAD systems. Second, the development techniques adopted in this case are more practical and cost‐ effective due to the easily accessible auxiliary tools. This also promotes the flexibility of the IFC‐based development. Research limitations/implications The lack of real historical data of LCC collected from previous projects is still a major barrier to applying this tool in practice. The future research and development of this LLC tool will look at the lifecycle costing of building service and energy consumption. Originality/value The paper introduces the development of IFC based applications in lifecycle costing. Keywords Decision-making, modelling, Life cycle cost. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Fu, C., Kaya, S., & Kagioglou G. Aouad, M. (2007). The development of an IFC‐based lifecycle costing prototype tool for building construction and maintenance: Integrating lifecycle costing to nD modelling. Construction Innovation, 7(1), 85-98. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1108/14714170710721313 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.adu.ac.ae/handle/1/250 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Emerald Group Publishing Limited | |
| dc.title | The development of an IFC‐based lifecycle costing prototype tool for building construction and maintenance: Integrating lifecycle costing to nD modelling | |
| dc.type | Article |