Life Cycle Costing as part of decision making - use of building information models

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a new approach for being able to describe and display the information required for design, construction and operation of buildings. More extended use of BIMS, with the development of Information Delivery Manuals (IDMs) for environmental assessments, energy calculations and LCC, ensuring more automatically data flow between different data bases, calculation tools and Building Information Models (BIM), will simplify the use of LCC in design. More extended use of LCC, and storing
the results for future use may also improve the Facility Management. Several projects have dealt with cost information flow, as information exchange between the BIM and LCC-tool and improving cost data bases, simplifying the data access as well as storage possibilities to ease and
extend the use of LCCA. This paper will present the current stage of the different project aiming at increased use of LCCA by use of BIM and IDMs