THE USE OF WHOLE LIFE COST ANALYSIS IN TENDER EVALUATION OF CONCRETE BRIDGES
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Published:2002
C Arya, P R Vassie, 2002. "THE USE OF WHOLE LIFE COST ANALYSIS IN TENDER EVALUATION OF CONCRETE BRIDGES", Innovations and Developments In Concrete Materials And Construction: Proceedings of the International Conference held at the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK on 9–11 September 2002, Ravindra K. Dhir, Peter C. Hewlett, Laszlo J. Csetenyi
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In the UK vast sums of money are spent annually on the repair and maintenance of structures. To avoid this problem in future construction, many client organisations operating in the public sector have recommended that designers should develop schemes which seek to minimize whole life costs, i.e. construction plus maintenance costs, rather than just initial construction costs. Currently there are no methods for evaluating tenders in terms of whole life costs and therefore no way of checking that this recommendation is being fully implemented. This paper describes a straightforward model that can be used to assess the whole life costs of concrete bridges exploiting alternative durability options and shows how this model could be incorporated in the tendering process.
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