Richard Kirkham 
Ferry and Brandon’s Cost Planning of Buildings [EPUB ebook] 

This new edition of the classic quantity surveying
textbook retains its basic structure but has been thoroughly
updated to reflect recent changes in the industry, especially in
procurement.

Although over the last 20 years a number of new procurement
methods have evolved and become adopted, the recession has seen
many clients revert to established traditional methods of
procurement so the fundamentals of cost planning still apply – and
should not be ignored.

The first edition of this leading textbook was published in 1964
and it continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the
practice and procedures of cost planning in the procurement of
buildings.

This 9th edition has been thoroughly updated to
reflect changes that have occurred in the UK construction industry
in the past six years. Whilst retaining its core structure of the
three-phase cost planning process originally developed by Ferry and
Brandon, the text provides a thorough grounding in contemporary
issues including procurement innovation, whole life cycle costing
and modelling techniques.

Designed to support the core cost planning studies covered by
students reading for degrees in quantity surveying and construction
management, it provides a platform for understanding the
fundamental importance of effective cost planning practice.

The principals of elemental cost planning are covered from both
pre- and post- contract perspectives; the role of effective
briefing and client/stakeholder engagement as best practice is also
reinforced in this text.

This new edition:

* Addresses The Soft Landings Framework (a new govt. initiative,
especially for schools) to make buildings perform radically better
and much more sustainably. Puts focus on actual performance in use
at brief stage, during design and construction, and especially
before and after handover.

* Covers recent changes in procurement, especially under the NEC
and PFI

* Provides more on PPP and long-term maintenance
issues

* Offers an improved companion website with tutorial worksheets
for lecturers

and Interactive spreadsheets for students, e.g. development
appraisal models; lifecycle costing models

Table of Content

About the Authors vii

Contributors to the Ninth Edition viii

Preface to the First Edition ix

Preface to the Ninth Edition x

Acknowledgements xi

Nomenclature and Acronyms xii

About the Companion Website xiv

Introduction

1. An Overview of Cost Planning 3

2. Building Information Modelling 13

3. A Three-Stage Cost Planning Strategy 23

Phase I: Cost Planning at the Briefing Stage

4. Developers’ Motivations and Needs 31

5. Client Identification and the Briefing Process: Aligning the Client Need with the Brief and the Budget 39

6. The Economics of Cost Planning: The Time Value of Money and Cash Flow 59

7. Whole Life Planning: The Methodology of Whole Life Cycle Costing and Design for Sustainability 75

8. Construction Procurement and the Relationship with Project Costs 91

Phase II: Cost Planning at the Design Stage

9. The Design Process and the Project Life Cycle 109

10. Standard Methods of Cost Modelling in Design 128

11. Cost and Performance Data: Sourcing and Application to the Cost Plan 160

12. Construction Cost Indices 182

13. Cost Planning the Brief 195

14. Cost Planning at the Scheme Design Stage 209

Phase III: Cost Planning and Control at Production and Operational Stages

15. Planning and Managing Project Resources and Costs 231

16. Resource-Based Cost Models 257

17. Cost Control (1): Final Design and Production Drawing Stage 270

18. Cost Control (2): Real Time 280

19. Cost Planning and Control of Refurbishment, Life Cycle Renewal and Repair Work 300

Appendix: Discounting and interest formulae and tables 307

Index 317

About the author

Richard Kirkham is a Lecturer in Engineering Project Management. Prior to his appointment at the University of Manchester, he held the post of Lecturer in Quantity Surveying and Construction Management (Liverpool John Moores University, 2004-2008), Research Officer (School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science, Cranfield University, 2002-2004) and Research Assistant (School of Architecture, University of Liverpool, 2001-2002).
He has published widely in the fields of whole life costs, stochastic service life prediction and quantitative techniques in performance measurement, and is co-author of two texts on building/engineering cost modelling. He is scientific secretary of CIB-TG62 Complex Systems and the Built Environment, and co-managing editor of RICS Research Innovation in the Built Environment. In 2005, Dr Kirkham was appointed as Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and immediate past-chair of the Liverpool Centre Chartered Institute of Building.