• The Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) provides cost and price data for the UK construction industry. Founded as part of the Royal Institution of...
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  • amortization expenses. These are generally higher in new entrants to a market due to the escalating real estate prices. Building Cost Information Service v t e...
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    addition of further information (time, cost, manufacturers' details, sustainability, and maintenance information, etc.) to the building model.[citation needed]...
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  • in the UK by BCIS (the Building Cost Information Service of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors).... Elemental Cost Planning relies upon the...
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  • In economics and business decision-making, a sunk cost (also known as retrospective cost) is a cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered...
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  • Total cost of ownership (TCO) is a financial estimate intended to help buyers and owners determine the direct and indirect costs of a product or service. It...
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    Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (category Grade II listed buildings in the City of Westminster)
    and Brazil. BCIS, the Building Cost Information Service, was established in 1962 and provides independent cost and price information to the construction...
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    less its sunk cost will be. A scenario is given below: A company used $5,000 for marketing and advertising on its music streaming service to increase exposure...
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  • Levelized cost of water National Grid Reserve Service Nuclear power in France List of thermal power station failures Calculating the cost of the UK Transmission...
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  • Depending on a company’s services or products, the strategies can vary. Every decision in the product development process affects cost: design is typically...
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    the World Service announced the closure of its Persian and Arabic radio services as part of a cost-cutting plan, but the online and TV services would remain...
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    Oregon. Built at a cost of US$29 million, it opened in 1982 and was considered architecturally groundbreaking at the time. The building houses offices of...
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    located on Billionaires' Row in Mumbai, India. Built from 2006 to 2010 at a cost of nearly US$2 billion,[unreliable source] it was valued at US$4.6 billion...
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  • Building services engineering (BSE) is a professional engineering discipline that strives to achieve a safe and comfortable indoor environment while minimizing...
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    S. federal building after the Pentagon. GSA's business lines include the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) and the Public Buildings Service (PBS), as well...
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  • modifier, such as building estimator, or electrical estimator, or chief estimator. Other professionals such as quantity surveyors and cost engineers may also...
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  • Software as a service (SaaS /sæs/) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all...
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  • Cost engineering is "the engineering practice devoted to the management of project cost, involving such activities as estimating, cost control, cost forecasting...
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  • vendors and trades, and the communication of information to all involved parties throughout the course of a building project. In the United States, a contractor...
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    The SIS Building, also called the MI6 Building, at Vauxhall Cross houses the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), also known as Military...
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  • Cost–benefit analysis (CBA), sometimes also called benefit–cost analysis, is a systematic approach to estimating the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives...
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    expenditure for building plants. Fuel, operational, and maintenance costs are relatively small components of the total cost. The long service life and high...
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    The NAO put the final cost at £135.05 million for site purchase and the basic building, or £152.6 million including the service's special requirements...
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    concerned with cost, this business model focuses on creating value for products and services: e.g. Louis Vuitton, Rolex. Characteristics of cost structures:...
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    Ministry of Defence Main Building or MOD Main Building, also known as MOD Whitehall or originally as the Whitehall Gardens Building, is a grade I listed government...
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  • telecommunication and Internet expansion of the late 1990s. Services making use of low-cost countries included: back-office and administrative functions...
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    the Senate pays to the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) for the use of their building. A senate building was constructed at the Batasan area...
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    building in Waco. The ALICO building was built in 1910 by the architectural firm Sanguinet & Staats for the Amicable Life Insurance Company at a cost...
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    location-enabled services, which rely on geographic analysis and visualization. GIS provides the ability to relate previously unrelated information, through the...
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    technology, automated services become less expensive over time. This helps provide services to more customers for a fraction of the cost of employees' wages...
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