Life Cycle Costing Software

[Archimac]

I have an open ended question and wanted some input on which software would be appropriate. The client wants to design a school based on the lifecycle cost of 25 years. There would need to be modelling of energy usage, being material and site specifice. There would also be a need to estimate upfront costs, maintanence etc. of various buildign materials.

If anyone has any suggestions of what combinations are appropriate please chime in.

[aggockel50321]

Here's one possiblity. Take a look here (http://www.iesve.com/content/default.asp).

I've seen a demo, but haven't tried the software...

[Archimac]

Great! Thanks for the link. I'll check it out.

[Andre Baros]

You may also want to check out Ecotect from http://squ1.com/

[joshua]

BEES is a good free package for basic life cycle cost analysis and has many products already analyzed within it.
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http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/oae/software/bees.html

[GuyR]

As Andrew suggested I would look at IES (http://www.iesve.com/content/default.asp)

Guy