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23 February 2012
Welcome to LCProfit.com!
Welcome to Statsbygg's information site for life cycle cost calculations.The concept, life cycle cost replaces the old-established annual cost term. NS 3454, "Annual cost for buildings", has for a long time been under revision. The new standard has got the description NS 3454 Life cycle cost for construction - principles and structure. The basis for the title modification is the desire to anchor the standard to a new law around the public acquisitions, where the term life cycle cost is introduced, and furthermore, to adapt to the international abbreviation. The revision has resulted in minor changes to the structure and underlying posts. Among other things the standard is extended with a new principal item for development costs. It has also broken new ground between the principal items for operating- and maintenance costs, which in a better fashion corresponds with the operating personnel tasks and the need for rational entry. The standard prepares the relations between life cycle cost, annual costs, lifetime cost and "årskostnader", and determines the principal items for these. This results in a possibility to register experience data, the construction of key figures and comparison between constructions.
NS 3454 - Overview of the new account stucture.
Starting from September 1, 1998 it was decided (in Statsbygg) that all building projects should involve LCC-calculations. The calculations are to be performed by the design team. And starting from July 1, 2001 the Norwegian law: "Ny Lov om off. anskaffelser" (law regarding federal acquisitions) is active. This law creates the legal foundation for demands regarding environmental issues and LCC-calculations during planning.
Statsbygg's computer program, in addition to all expenses, also regards costs related to internal revenues by choice of the desired actual interest. The program is, as a consequence of this, a simple LCP-program (Life Cycle Profit, hereunder abbreviated to LCC or LCP).
Another main goal regarding the LCC/LCP -calculations of the design team, is that these should document that the design draft meets the earlier agreed upon demands for expense covering rent.
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