Life Cycle Costing: For the Analysis, Management and Maintenance of Civil Engineering Infrastructure

摘要

The idea that one should give thought during a facility's planning and design to the future use of the facility is not exactly a new one, but it has in recent years begun to generate more 'buzz', as the marketers might say. Many facility managers and owners began to realize the scale of financial problems caused by years of budget-motivate maintenance deferrals, particularly in combination with early decisions to adopt lowest-cost construction options that could have been foreseen to raise future maintenance requirements. Dhillon's (1989) text on life cycle costing represented one of the seminal efforts to lay out in an orderly manner the analysis methods that could be used to show that 'savings' in design and construction could have costly consequences for operations, maintenance, and disposal. The phrase 'pay me now or pay me later' has become a catchy way to characterize for popular presentation the technical trade-offs facing facility owners and their architects and engineers.