The clients of most large contractors are typically as varied as the buildings they have us construct. Some buyers of construction are satisfied if they can simply get a building erected as quickly as ...

Many people and organizations talk about “minimum life cycle cost per hour” or “minimum hourly cost of ownership.” Few know exactly what they are talking about, and few, if any, provide the tools ...

[This article was first published in Army Sustainment Professional Bulletin, which was then called Army Logistician, volume 3, number 2 (March–April 1971), pages 12–15, 42–43. The text, including any ...

Life cycle cost optioneering is a way of assessing alternative design options, analyzing their long-term capital and operational costs to identify those with the lowest price tag, over the entire life ...

When you depreciate your small-business assets, you can spread the cost of those assets over their full life cycle. This allows you to receive part of the write-off for your assets as they produce ...

The life cycle of plastics and other materials used for engineering begins with the extraction of raw materials, followed by the synthesis and processing of the polymer building blocks, which are ...