doi:10.3850/978-981-08-7920-4_S1-F02-cd
Impact of New European Facility Management Standards on Building Cost Structures
Markus Christen1 and Holger Wallbaum2
1ETH Rat, Zurich, Switzerland.
2ETH Zürich, Institut für Bau und Infrastruktur, Zurich, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There are many different cost structures for building construction and building operation, both
in standards and in guidelines. Changes in these structures have far reaching consequences as
they are often used for a whole series of activities, ranging from cost calculation and tendering
to benchmarking in the country of origin. The European Committee for Standardization
(CEN) is currently developing standards in the field of Facility management (FM). It is now
working on the topics processes, quality, taxonomy (classification, products and structures),
space measurement and benchmarking in FM. To overcome the problem of disparity in national
cost structures, it has defined requirements for a harmonized support cost structure. No single
structure was found to meet these requirements. What is needed is a system of interlocked
structures e.g., for costs codes, facilities, activities/processes, etc. Central in this system is the
new facility product structure. The new European standards in FMmark a shift from a building
perspective to an organization perspective and from construction phase thinking to life cycle
costing (LCC). The consequences are new requirements for the building construction industry
and new opportunities towards the sustainability of buildings. This paper reviews existing
cost structures and examines closely the question of whether the facility product structure is
compatible with the different existing construction cost structures.
Keywords: Facility management, European standards, Building cost structures.
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