It will help you

• Produce lifecycle costings, benchmarking, planning, budgeting, forecasting, estimating, and cost control
• Compare component costs and how they will last over time, so that decisions can be made at the beginning of a project
• Give you reassurance, as you are using BCIS data that you can be more confident in profit levels

What's included

• The information is split into building maintenance, decorations, fabric and operations, cleaning, utilities and administration costs, helping you with your building refurbishment and running costs
• You can choose from a wide range of building functions within the cost database allowing you to use the data in a flexible way to suit your individual project needs
• You can find our component life costs. Figures for the life expectancy of over 300 common building components - substructure, superstructure, finishes, fittings and furnishings, and external works
• You can compare the running costs of different building types, from a range of anything from one to 60 years. A typical spend profile will be produced showing the estimated expenditure for each year of the selected period
• Information is also given on the factors that affect the deterioration or failure of the components. The figures are based on the experience of building surveyors
• Gives you the ability to save cost assessments on the system or send to the client
• You can also enter the buildings value so that you can calculate the whole life cycle cost of a building

Dayworks

• A selection of the most common Wage Agreements and Dayworks Rates will be regularly updated and available online. Historical data back to 1987 is also available and will show the changes in labour costs over the last 20 years.

Average prices for Rehabilitation

• A total of 2700 projects have been extracted from the BCIS database that include various levels of refurbishment. The average costs of refurbishment and rehabilitation can be searched by building type, and the 'calculator' will show the mean, median, and range of costs.