ABSTRACT
To many consultants, whole life costing is an aspiration, but not yet a reality. High-profile, larger projects attract a lot of interest in this area and have the time and resources to devote to the ‘established systems’ — by which I mean that a whole life approach is expected to be included. This is understandable, given that much of the industry functions on the basis of adopted common practice, although many in the team may have doubts that it will be undertaken.
