During its life span, the exploitation costs of a building amounts
to a multiple of its initial construction costs. Moreover, eighty
percent of the costs are already predetermined during the design phase.
The question is how you could already positively influence these costs
in the design, but also during subsequent phases, as well as avoid
wasting money during exploitation.
In the course of our years of consultancy, in a diverse field of
work (Deerns undertakes some 500 projects per year!) we at Deerns have
built up considerable knowledge about construction and exploitation
costs, and we have a keen insight into the way all sorts of variables
influence each other. We are pleased to put this knowledge at your
disposal in the form of a cost model in which you can calculate the
life cycle costs (LCC) of the alternatives and compare them with each
other. The LCC model sets alternative investment possibilities against
each other. The model calculates the net present value (NPV) of the
alternatives. Time influences such as inflation are included in these
values so that the comparison is fair. Furthermore, different practical
concepts can be compared (for example investing in technical measures
against employing additional staff).
