In some respects, the art and science of non military life cycle costing see here has advanced since the pioneering work undertaken for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu in the early 1980's.
A Google search for life-cycle costing or whole life costing will now yield a tranche of standards and synthetic values for project designers.
However, a significant stumbling block to their intelligent application in the UK was the silo'd devolution of budget responsibility between:
- development of facilities and
- operations
For organisations still struggling with this artificial division perpetuated by blinkered adoption of 19th century management principles, is now an opportune time to explore how business models built on traditional thinking can be adjusted to reveal where the true value lies in organisations and their built environment?
As usual, the value exchange system (VES) "lens" allows participants to introduce this innovation and simultaneously engage participants / stakeholders in intelligent conversation about "sustainability," promoting growth and success.
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