January 19, 2023
Life-Cycle Cost Analysis
- Publish Date
- 2016
- Type
- guide
- Author
- Sieglinde Fuller
- publisher
- World Building Design Guide
- Direct Link
- https://www.wbdg.org/resources/life-cycle-cost-analysis-lcca
A thorough article on LCC applied to buildings, with links to further resources. Life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) is a method for assessing the total cost of facility ownership. It takes into account all costs of acquiring, owning, and disposing of a building or building system. LCCA is especially useful when project alternatives that fulfill the same performance requirements, but differ with respect to initial costs and operating costs, have to be compared in order to select the one that maximizes net savings.