Cost Control in Building Design

Roger Flanagan (Author), Brian Tate (Author)

9780632040285, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 23 April 1997

336 pages
24.3 x 17.4 x 1.8 cm, 0.539 kg

Cost control and cost planning are an integral part of quantity surveying and construction management courses.
This new book on building design uses programmed learning to demonstrate the ideas of cost control and cost planning, from first principles through practice. Worked examples are used throughout the concise and easily accessible text.

The importance of control over expenditure
The purpose of cost control
The principles of cost control
Traditional costing procedure
Cost control during inception, feasibility, outline proposals
Cost control during scheme design
During detail design
Test

Subject Areas: Civil engineering, surveying & building [TN]