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Guide to Mapping National Standard Building Elements to International Construction Measurement Standard ‘International Cost Management Standard’
Contents:
Introduction
- Main Differences between NSBE and ICMS3
- Life Cycle of ICMS Cost Data 6
Cost Control 7
- The Requirements for a Cost Control System 7
- ICMS Cost Categories / Cost Groups 7
DEFINITIONS 12
Appendix 1 – ICMS mapped to NSBE Codes 17
Appendix 2 – IPMS Selected Definition Diagrams 38
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A User Guide for the International Cost Management Standard 3 (ICMS 3)
Contents include:
- Introduction:
- Cost Reporting Standards
- Purpose
- Intended audience
- Design principles and philosophy
- Objectives
- Why is it important?
- Addressing both buildings and civil engineering
- Projects and sub-projects
- Structure, framework, hierarchical levels, attributes and values
- Structure
- Cost and carbon framework and hierarchical levels
- Project attributes and values
- Life cycle cost considerations
- Carbon emissions considerations
- Other ICMS appendices
- Uses
- Early conversations
- Benchmarking and reporting
- Cost and carbon emissions classification and analysis
- Claims analysis and forensics
- Work breakdown structures
- Digital tools
- Limitations
- Level of detail
- Currency and specification
- Extent of coverage – civil engineering
- Availability of life cycle data
- Differences from elemental cost planning
- Classification principles
- Substructure and structure delineation
- Loadbearing and non-loadbearing delineation
- Alignment to design disciplines
- Appendix 1a: ICMS cost example
- Appendix 1b: ICMS carbon emissions example
- Appendix 2: ICMS codes for buildings and civil engineering projects
- Appendix 3: ICMS and other construction information and cost classification
- Appendix 4: Survey detail accuracy band table
- Appendix 5: Further information
- Appendix 6: Introduction to IPMS: All Buildings
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