Abstract:
The study investigates the whole-life costs of non-residential Green Mark certified building
developments in Singapore to derive useful information for teaching, research and practice. When
industry stakeholders like building owners, architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, builders and
facility managers have detailed information about the initial and operating costs of different types of
buildings, they would be able to apply whole-life costing to their existing or new projects with the
intention of achieving value for money, as well as environmental sustainability. Data is collected from
Green Mark certified building projects starting from 2005. Statistical analysis is performed on the
collected data to generate the information required to build the cost database. The Paasche Price Index
method is used to produce a weighted composite index for Singapore’s non-residential building sector
by applying 2005 as the base year.
Citation:
Hua, G.B. (2014). Designing a whole-life cost index for non-residential buildings. In Y.G. Sandanayake, N.G. Fernando & G.I. Karunasena (Eds.), Sustainability and development in built environment: the way forward (pp.149-155). Ceylon Institute of Builders. https://ciobwcs.com/downloads/WCS2014-Proceedings.pdf
