Whole Life Sustainability

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Whole Life Costing (WLC) needs to become a tool in the design process: that is the argument of this new title by Ian Ellingham and William Fawcett.

For too long WLC has been misunderstood, considered too complicated for designers to undertake on a readily practical basis. But techniques are changing, and Whole Life Sustainability presents a selection of simple analytical tools that architects can use to arm themselves with confident and qualitative justifications for making sustainable decisions.

Increasing numbers of clients are demanding that environmental design is balanced with financial and long-term cost issues, and WLC is a way of finding common currency for making decisions. Whole Life Sustainability shows a number of approaches for doing so, steering clear of number-crunching, and instead using simple ‘back-of-the-envelope’ techniques, and easy self-assessment tools for the architect to evaluate and understand the whole life of their building.

Whole Life Sustainability is a simple route to more insightful, better-quality analysis in the design process.

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Ian Ellingham

Ian studied architecture at Carleton University in Canada. He followed that with a Master of Business Administration at the University of Western Ontario, and undertook a Master of Philosophy in Land Economy at the University of Cambridge and a PhD at the Department of Architecture in the University of Cambridge. He is an associate of Cambridge Architectural Research Limited, has undertaken research for numerous government and private bodies in the UK and in Canada, and has worked extensively in the development industry, where he has focused on the overall management of the development process. He is the chairman of the editorial committee of Perspectives, an architectural journal, and is a member of the faculty of the School of Restoration Arts at Willowbank.

William Fawcett

William trained as an architect at the Department of Architecture in the University of Cambridge, where he went on to PhD research. His PhD thesis was ‘A mathematical approach to adaptability in Buildings’. As well as working in architectural practice, he has held a lectureship at the University of Hong Kong and was one of the founding directors of Cambridge Architectural Research Limited. He currently holds the Chadwick Fellowship in Architecture at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and teaches at the Martin Centre of Architectural and Urban Studies at the University of Cambridge.

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