4. brief

• Types of buildings


  • Residential buildings
  • Non-residential buildings
• Non-residential buildings


  All buildings which are not used for living purposes, including public buildings, schools, hospitals, libraries, museums, buildings for sport, stadiums, swimming pools, commercial buildings, shops, factories, warehouses, offices, agricultural and military buildings, religious buildings, and buildings for transport stations, parking, airports and bus terminals
• Residential buildings


  Dwellings, places where people live, including bungalows, blocks of flats, and flat sharing communities
• Types of residential buildings

  • Single-family home (detached house)
  • Semi-detached house
  • Terrace house (with a middle terrace house and an end terrace house at each end)
  • Multi-unit dwelling (with flats or apartments)
• Common types of consultants in connection with building work

  • Structural engineers
  • Electrical engineers
  • Building services engineers
  • Building physicist
  • Quantity surveyors or cost managers
  • Interior designers
  • Urban planners
  • Landscape architects
• The total construction cost of a new building is only approximately 20 percent of the building's life cycle cost
• The professional fees are around 10 percent of the construction cost and therefore only represent 2 percent of the life cycle cost
• The cost of specialist services which aim at optimising planning and development phases as well as the use and maintenance of the completed structure may be seen as very worthwhile
• Before planning and constructing a property, the client needs to be aware of all the expenses associated with the development
• The final step of this early process is the agreement of the budget