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Whole life cost & Whole life performance
DTI Position Paper on Whole Life Issues
http://www.dti.gov.uk/construction/consult/pro0001/wlc.htm
Creating Whole Life Value Proxemics in Construction Projects
http://www.bath.ac.uk/management/agile/publications/abst/bsev10.html
Whole life cost procurement & Examples of whole life cost procurement policies
DTI Procurement Policy & Guidance
http://www.dti.gov.uk/about_dti_procurement.html
AWE’s Procurement Policy & Supplier Relationships
http://www.awe.co.uk/main_site/business/procurement/awe_suppliers.htm
OGC Library Procurement Guidance on Whole Life Costs
http://www.ogc.gov.uk/sdtoolkit/library/p_and_cd/guide7.html
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Local Government Procurement Task Force – Topic Areas and Issues
http://www.local-regions.odpm.gov.uk/consult/procure/tf/04.htm
Example of WLC Analysis using lamps
http://www.nesllc.com/cfanalysis.htm
The US view on WLC in D&B projects in Europe
http://international.fhwa.dot.gov/contractadmin/04.htm
WLC in capital procurement for the NHS
http://www.hefma.org.uk/refbook/capitalprocurement34.htm
OGC Office of Government Commerce Procurement Guidance No 7 - WLC
http://www.ogc.gov.uk/sdtoolkit/reference/achieving/guide7.html
DTI best practice tools and guides on just about every subject.
http://www.dti.gov.uk/mbp/bpgt/bpgt.html
Companies working in whole life costs & performance
Bovis Lend Lease
www.bovis.com
Building Performance Group
www.bpg-uk.com
Cyril Sweet
www.ceb.co.uk
Davis Langdon & Everest
www.dle.co.uk
Dundee University
www.dundee.ac.uk
Franklin + Andrews
www.franklinandrews.co.uk
Gardiner & Theobald
www.gardiner.com
Interior Services Group
www.theoccupancybusiness.co.uk
Jarvis Projects
www.jarvis-uk.com
MacConvilles
www.macconvilles.com
Mott MacDonald
www.mottmacdonald.co.uk
SFS Stadler
www.sfs-online.com
Shepherd Building Group
www.shepherd-buildinggroup.com
Simons Design
www.simonsdesign.co.uk
Taylor Woodrow
www.taylorwoodrow.com
The Solution Organisation
www.thesolutionorganisation.com
Tilbury Douglas (Interserve Plc)
www.interserveplc.co.uk
Turner & Townsend
www.turnerandtownsend.com
Wates Construction
www.wates.co.uk
Sustainability
The UK Government Sustainable Development Website
http://www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/what_is_sd/what_is_sd.htm
Sponge – A focus for fresh ideas in construction and sustainable development
www.spongenet.org
Sustainable construction and the issues for transport infrastructure
http://www.iht.org/IHT.org/memberslounge/April02/Dec00/10-12.pdf
Environment
SPRU – Paper on Climate Change and the Barriers to Energy Efficiency
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/publications/imprint/sewps/sewp67/sewp67.html
Paper on Green Design & the Economic Lifecycle
http://www.co-design.co.uk/economic.htm
The environmental data interactive exchange
http://www.edie.net.htm
CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) Aims
http://www.cabe.org.uk/qsUD-NP9iB-=0KTPfIrRxgg/about/aims.html
Supply Chain Management
Business Links guide on SCM for small businesses
http://www.businesslink.org/cgi-bin/bv1/index.jsp?urlid=5&PCOID=-9103
Refereed article in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. Simulates the influence of information on supply chain management.
www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/1/2/5.html
The institute of Logistics. A UK organization concerned with the strategic management of the total supply-chain. Includes press releases, publications, members, and links.
www.iolt.org.uk
The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS) is an international organisation, based in the UK, serving the purchasing and supply profession.
www.cips.org
Centre for Supply Chain Management
www.cscm.org.uk/cscm_frames_pages.htm
The professional and educational society for manufacturing, operations, logistics and supply chain management professionals.
www.ipics.ie
Products and Materials – whole life cost information
WLC analysis of domestic electrical (white) goods
http://www.chelseagreen.com/IndHome/ch0105.htm
WLC analysis of innovative buildings
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/cice/vacant/bh-proj.htm
WLC analysis of furniture
http://www.moores.co.uk/ps/wlc/
WLC analysis of roads and the impact of vehicles
http://www.roads.dft.gov.uk/cvtf/wholelife/
What car maufactures are doing with WLC
http://www.volvocars.co.uk/fleet/start.asp
Best Practice and Innovation
Be
Collaborating for the Built Environment, known as Be, is the largest independent construction supply chain body in the UK.  They have over  100 member firms  including clients, contractors, consultants and specialists & manufacturers  (many are also members of WLCF) all committed to collaborating for sustainable improvement in the built environment through the research and delivery of change within firms.
http://www.beonline.co.uk
Cranfield University’s Lean Construction Network
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sims/quality/lean_con.html
CBPP (Construction Best Practice Programme) Page on Whole Life Costs
http://www.cbpp.org.uk/cbpp/themes/wlc.jsp
Net Present Value
NPV is worldwide here is an article in the Pakistan Economist about NPV and project evaluation
http://www.pakistaneconomist.com/page/issue02/f&m6.htm

An interesting article on sensitivity analysis and Discount Rate selection
http://www.marine.gov.ie/display.asp/pg=754
Part of a Finance MSc from Imperial College London Business School. A good article but difficult to read - some smoke and mirrors for accountants and finance directors?.
http://www.ms.ic.ac.uk/dkmiles/3appraisal.pdf
Good finance background paper worth reading.
http://www.manufacturingadvice.org.uk/pluto-resources/1364.pdf

Average Weighted Costs of Capital by sector ranges from 15% to 4.9%. Read in conjunction with our page on WACC
http://www.wlcf.org.uk/ChoiceOfDiscountRates.htm