EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Having confidence in the permanence of a digital resource requires a deep understanding of the preservation activities that will need to be performed throughout its lifetime, and an ability to plan and resource for those activities. The LIFE (Lifecycle Information for E-Literature) Project has advanced understanding of the short and long-term costs in this complex area, facili...

The objectives of the Building Envelope Life Cycle Asset Management (BELCAM) project is to assist asset managers by developing methods to predict the remaining service life of building envelope components, and by providing tools to optimize maintenance expenditures. The project concentrates on roofing systems, as a “proof of concept”, but will apply the tools, procedures and methods to other bu...

The Circular Economy (CE) paradigm has been gaining momentum. However, the tools and methods used to design, measure implement circularity are not immediately suitable for decision making practice by key stakeholders. This article details a qualitative quantitative method evaluate characteristics such as circularity, adaptability reuse of building elements amongst others in order provide decisi...

However excellent a product may be environmentally, it would not come into wide use in the economy to realize its environmental load reducing potential unless it is also economically affordable. Life-cycle costing (LCC) is a tool to assess the cost of a product over its entire life cycle, and can be regarded as an economic counterpart of LCA. A combined use of LCA and LCC would be imperative fo...

As we develop our ability to preserve digital collections through techniques such as migration and emulation, the decision process of what action to take and when to take it becomes increasingly complex. Cost is a crucial factor to consider but the financial implications of preservation planning decisions are not typically well understood. At a strategic level, there are also significant challe...