IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/conmgt/v18y2000i8p927-934.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Environmentally sustainable development: a life-cycle costing approach for a commercial office building in Melbourne, Australia

Author

Listed:
  • Lu Aye
  • Nick Bamford
  • Bill Charters
  • Jon Robinson

Abstract

A range of property and construction options is analysed using standard life-cycle costing methodology. The options are to renovate the existing building, buy an alternative building and renovate, and buy a development site and construct a new building. The do-nothing option and a hypothetical option to construct a new building on an ideal site are analysed as benchmarks. The results show that the optimum option is to buy a suitable site and construct a new building and that the least sustainable option, in the case study, is to stay in the existing property and renovate the building. Although staying in the existing building and doing nothing carries the lowest financial cost, energy consumption and greenhouse emissions are significantly worse than for the alternative options.

Suggested Citation

  • Lu Aye & Nick Bamford & Bill Charters & Jon Robinson, 2000. "Environmentally sustainable development: a life-cycle costing approach for a commercial office building in Melbourne, Australia," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(8), pages 927-934.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:conmgt:v:18:y:2000:i:8:p:927-934
    DOI: 10.1080/014461900446885
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014461900446885
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/014461900446885?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Zuo, Jian & Pullen, Stephen & Rameezdeen, Raufdeen & Bennetts, Helen & Wang, Yuan & Mao, Guozhu & Zhou, Zhihua & Du, Huibin & Duan, Huabo, 2017. "Green building evaluation from a life-cycle perspective in Australia: A critical review," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 358-368.
    2. Schwartz, Yair & Raslan, Rokia & Mumovic, Dejan, 2018. "The life cycle carbon footprint of refurbished and new buildings – A systematic review of case studies," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 81(P1), pages 231-241.
    3. Kwonsik Song & Yonghan Ahn & Joseph Ahn & Nahyun Kwon, 2019. "Development of an Energy Saving Strategy Model for Retrofitting Existing Buildings: A Korean Case Study," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(9), pages 1-17, April.
    4. Edyta Plebankiewicz & Wiesław Meszek & Krzysztof Zima & Damian Wieczorek, 2019. "Probabilistic and Fuzzy Approaches for Estimating the Life Cycle Costs of Buildings under Conditions of Exposure to Risk," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-15, December.
    5. Geng, Shengnan & Wang, Yuan & Zuo, Jian & Zhou, Zhihua & Du, Huibin & Mao, Guozhu, 2017. "Building life cycle assessment research: A review by bibliometric analysis," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 176-184.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:conmgt:v:18:y:2000:i:8:p:927-934. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RCME20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.