BUILDING LIFE CYCLE COST & QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Course Background

Evaluation of building quality has hitherto been focused more on measurement of ‘Initial Quality or Time Zero Quality’ rather than ‘Quality Over Building Life’. The continual strive for higher quality and developments in the Total Quality Management paradigm has led to greater awareness of the need to adopt a life cycle approach in assessing building quality, reliability and costs when considering investments in new and existing buildings.

Building quality over time will depend on the performance of building systems and components with the aim to contain cost-in-use within the limits predicted at design and planning. A building’s ‘Global Life’ is influenced by variables such as changing user needs and natural ageing of materials and components, the former may bring on the end of building ‘Functional Life’ and ‘Economic Life’ before the end of its ‘Physical Life’. The temporal horizons for projecting and planning building investments should thus be factored when defining a building’s useful life; this will involve procedures and tools to measure and evaluate building quality and costs over its life cycle.

Course Objectives

The course will provide knowledge on Building Life Cycle Quality and Cost Parameters and Tools to measure and evaluate these parameters and will cover:

• The Concept of Building Performance
• Definitions of Building Quality Performance Parameters
• Building Life Cycle Design Management
• Building Life Cycle Technical Management
• Evaluation of Building Cost-in-Use
• Building Life Cycle Management & Maintenance

Course Outline

• DEFINING BUILDING PERFORMANCE
  • Concept of Building Performance
  • Performance Parameters & Measures
• BUILDING OBSOLESCENCE & QUALITY PARAMETERS
  • Building Obsolescence
  • Building Quality Parameters
• DESIGN MANAGEMENT
  • Defining Life Cycle Requirements
  • Life-Cycle Quality Measures
  • Evaluating Designs
• BUILDING COST-IN-USE
  • Operating & Maintenance Costs
  • Life-Cycle Costs
• TECHNICAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT
  • Building Ageing, Defects & Technical Performance
  • Assessing Technical Performance Over Time
  • Technical Assessment Standardisation
  • Technical Requirements & Maintenance Priority
• BUILDING LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT
  • Performance Evaluation Over Time
  • Post-Occupancy Evaluation: Facility Audit
  • Legislation for Life Cycle Management

Who should take this course?

The course will benefit those who have a vested interest in buildings including:

• Developers
• Building Owners
• Government Officials
• Architects
• Engineers
• Project Managers
• Facilities Manager
• Maintenance Managers
• Management Corporations
• Town Councils
• and Others

Course Accreditation and Certificate of Attendance

The course has been approved for 7 PDU units under the PE Board Continuing Professional Development programme. Attendance certificates will be issued; they may also be suitable for meeting the CPD requirements of other relevant professional bodies not operating a CPD course accreditation system.