Building Cost Planning for the Design Team

Jim Smith is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a professor in property and construction with the Faculty of Society and Design ;at Bond University. His research interests include construction economics, project inception and design management. He has published in excess of 130 refereed journal and conference papers. This book also complements his earlier works, Building Cost Planning in Action and Building Design Cost Management. David Jaggar ;is the ;former Deputy Director of the School of the Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool. His research interests include construction economics, design management, and construction procurement. He was the co-founder and Joint Chair of CIB-W92, Construction Procurement and serves on editorial boards of several international journals. This book complements his earlier works, Design and the Economics of Building and Building Design Cost Management. Peter Love is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and John Curtin Distinguished Professor in the School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University. He holds a Higher Doctorate of Science for his contributions to the field of Civil Engineering and his research interests include construction and engineering economics infrastructure management, and information systems evaluation. He has published in excess of 600 referred journal and conference papers. Oluwole Alfred Olatunji is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a lecturer in construction management ;at Curtin University. His research interests include building information modelling, construction economics and construction engineering. He is on the Editorial Panel of leading construction management journals.

• Preface Part A: Context 1. Building and Construction Industry Characteristics 2. The Development Process 3. Design Economics 4. An Overview of Cost Planning Stages 5. Sources of Building Cost Data 6. Building Information Modelling (BIM) Part B: Cost Planning in Action 7. Cost Planning the Pre-Design (Briefing) Stages 8. Cost Planning the Concept Design (Outline Proposals) Stage 9. Cost Planning the Developed Design (Sketch Design) Stage 10. Cost Planning the Technical Design (Documentation Stage