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Life Cycle Cost and Carbon Modelling

Rider Levett Bucknall's Life Cycle Cost + Carbon Modeling service is our response to the challenges property owners face in reconciling commercial viability with efficiency, sustainability and environmental sensitivity throughout a structure's life cycle.

Using our model, owners can develop facilities which are not only cost effective to build but operationally efficient over their life span.

Sophisticated owners recognize that the capital cost of a facility may be less significant when compared with the total cost of ownership over time. An integrated Life Cycle Cost model enables capital and life cycle characteristics of individual components, elements and whole buildings to be modeled and forecasted over the life of a proposed facility. Interdependencies between variables are established and comparison of multiple options provides a frame of reference for making important long-term investment decisions. The model can also be used to calculate carbon footprint, LEED^TM, BREEAM, or GreenStar ratings, energy and CO₂ consumption, water consumption, and capital allowances.

This approach also helps owners with separately funded capital and operating budgets to understand the long term impact of capital decisions.

The Rider Levett Bucknall model can be used at all stages of the asset life cycle from inception, through design development and into operation.

Benefits

Supports more informed business decisions regarding what to build, where to build and when to build
Provides insights for design decisions regarding form, specification, systems and components, all based on a whole life cost basis
Optimizes capital and operational budgets
Identifies projected annual costs of operations, maintenance and replacement as a budget planning tool
Facilitates continuous improvement on future projects
Quantitatively evaluates use of renewable energy solutions such as biomass, photo-voltaic cells, and wind turbines
Provides decision-making support to sustainability and CSR initiatives and programs

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