School of the Built Environment

School of the Built Environment

D39CC Design Cost Planning and Control

Tutorial Activity: Week 2 and 4 (Suggested total session time 4 hours)

Unit 2: BCIS

Purpose of the Session:

The session is for the students to test their understanding of how to use the BCIS service, by students exploring a wide range of BCIS cost data and adjusting the cost information to provide an accurate cost limit to the client. Through a simulated client brief students will be able to demonstrate their ability to properly source, use and update a BCIS analysis for cost planning purposes.

Session 1

Read and understand the content of the following client brief, you are acting as a cost consultant to the client.

Client’s Brief: Sports Centre

The client is Fife Regional Council, who requires a community sports hall to be constructed for a school in Dunfermline. The single storey sports facility must be capable of accommodating a sports hall, fitness room and the necessary ancillary accommodation including; changing rooms, toilets, medical room, office, reception area, café/refreshment area and plant room.

External works to include; site works, precast concrete, brick and macadam paving, steel mesh fencing, services, drainage and floodlighting. The building is to comprise predominantly on one storey with a total area, in the region, of 1400 – 1600 m2. The sports centre is to be built using a steel frame with a pitched profiled metal roof covering and edge trim.

26 October 2006

Discuss your understanding of the brief.
Explain the process of how to go about putting a cost limit together.
Use the BCIS analyses table below, get them to up date costs for time and location.

Analysis / TPI / Location Factor / £/m2 / GFA / % Prelims / % Contin.
17642 London / 131
3Q96 / 1.19 / £621.09 / 1679 / 14 / 3
17978 Birmingham / 137
2Q97 / 0.95 / £693.90 / 900 / 11 / 3
17307 Worcester / 140
3Q97 / 0.97 / £765.50 / 1520 / 11 / 2
18807 Martley / 146
4Q98 / 0.93 / £802.59 / 1580 / 9 / 1
18900 Ledbury / 148
3Q98 / 0.93 / £934.36 / 1910 / 13 / 2
18328 Wiltshire / 147
2Q98 / 0.98 / £980.83 / 1557 / 12 / 3
18432 Portsmouth / 134
1Q97 / 1.02 / £1,190.70 / 665 / 4 / 4
19423 Hampshire / 147
1Q99 / 1.05 / £1,650.56 / 477 / 28 / 3

Current TPI4Q96 237 (forecast)Location factor0.96, Dunfermline, Fife

Using the BCIS Cost Analyses for the projects indicated in the table above ( see VISION) Open Analysis 1 – input the information for BCIS historical analysis being used and their updated costs.

Examine the costs presented in Analysis 1 in more detail for comparability between the client brief and the historical cost analyses.
Look at prices carefully are there any similarities? Does that mean that the historical projects are similar in nature?
Get the students to identify comparability factors across the historical projects (Create table some aspects pre prepared)
Issue BCIS Analyses to groups of 4 to 6 students and get them to find the comparability factors
Each group to report their finding to class – complete an overall table summarising the findings from the groups.
Factors should include the following: Prelims %, Contingency %, construction, contract type etc. Students can refer to the BCIS worked example from the lecture.

Session 2

Based upon the conclusions drawn from the comparability of the historical analyses identify the two most appropriate BCIS Analyses from the six to use.
Provide a rationale for their choices and for the Analyses that they feel are least appropriate for use in this cost planning exercise.

Open Analysis 2 – Go through the process of completing Analyses 2 for both one of the chosen updated historical analysis.
Open Analysis 3, complete the spreadsheet. Make use of the BCIS worked example from the lecture.