... a novel and generic method for Maintenance and Rehabilitation Planning for Public Infrastructure (M&RPPI), which aims at determining the optimal rehabilitation profile over a desired analysis period. Design/methodology/approach The M&RPPI method is based on life‐cycle costing (LCC...

... concerned about economic performance (Shen et al., 2010). Green Environmental sustainability Capital cost Life cycle costs Malaysia Housing Sustainable development Construction operations In an era in which mitigating climate change and adapting to global warming have become...

...L.M. Swaffield; A.M. McDonald Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate attitudes and opinions of quantity surveyors working for design and construction contractors regarding the importance and use of life cycle costing within private finance initiative (PFI) projects, and the subsequent...

..., Neumann and Fenton (1993) selected compression equipment from industrial refrigeration systems based on optimisation of life cycle costs; Doi (1996) analysed reliability for cooling systems. The LCC of building systems have been studied (ASHRAE, 2003 ; Evans, 1999 ; John et al., 2003 ; El...