I am working with existing health care buildings, and I am trying to reduce operations & use costs throughout Life Cycle Cost (LCC). I already have some hospital benchmarkings and I will use this for the LCC calculation. In this calculation I would use the Life Cycle Cost in Use defined by ISO 15686-5, because the building is already built and I do not have construction cost (1980's). Also I will use the DIN 18690 "User cost of buildings" because it seems accurate for me.
Please, does anyone know a LCC free software to help me with my task?
Alejandro Vallejo,
Have you checked openLCA? It's one of the best freely available software for Life Cycle Assessment and Costing.
https://www.openlca.org/
Personally for basic repair and replacement evaluations I would build my own LCA assessment package from Excel inputting appropriate formulae and own real information about costs and interest rates and BRE information such as shown in Wilmott Dixon's WLC and LCA assessment:
willmottdixon.co.uk/asset/9449/download?1424952248
This could take some time but could be customisable. Of course it would not have all the bells and whistles that a full package would have such as reports and graphs and so on unless you spent even more time developing these, in which case you would probably end up with a marketable product, so then you might as well obtain one already made, as long as it is free and of course legal.
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