In order to achieve your credits, you must follow BREEAM requirements:

Elemental life cycle cost (LCC) (2 credits)

An outline, entire asset elemental LCC plan has been carried out at the Concept Design stage together with any design option appraisals in line with ‘Buildings and constructed assets – Service life planning – Part 5: Life cycle costing ISO 15686- 5:2008.'

The outline LCC plan:

1. Provides an indication of future replacement costs over a period of analysis as required by the client (e.g. 20, 30, 50 or 60 years)
   
2. Includes service life, maintenance and operation cost estimates.
   

Demonstrate, using appropriate examples provided by the design team, how the elemental LCC plan has been used to influence building and systems design, and specification to minimise life cycle costs and maximise critical value.

Component level life cycle cost (1 credit)

A component level LCC options appraisal has been developed by the end of Process Stage 4 (equivalent to Technical Design Stage) in line with ISO 15686-5:2008, and includes the following component types (where present):

1. Envelope, e.g. cladding, windows, or roofing
2. Services, e.g. heat source, cooling source or controls
3. Finishes, e.g. walls, floors or ceilings
4. External spaces, e.g. alternative hard landscaping, boundary protection.
   

Demonstrate, using appropriate examples provided by the design team, how the component level LCC options appraisal has been used to influence building and systems design, and specification to minimise life cycle costs and maximise critical value.

Follow this step-by-step guide to complete the calculations:

1. Set your LCC study parameters.
   
• Click ‘Parameters’ and 'Input data: LCC paremeters' from the project main page’s Design ribbon.
  
• The LCC parameters are location specific, filling in the question is mandatory, also it's required to enable the automated cost data generation.
  
• Firstly, set cost regionalisation by selecting the country and click ‘Load regional cost parameters’.
  
• This generates automatic inputs for your project location. Please note that the generated values are averaged cost data and might not represent the real values for your project. Edit the generated parameters as necessary.
  
• If your license includes automated costing database, you should check as a minimum:
  
• Exchange rate (expressed against 1 Euro)
  
• Hourly labour rate worker (average hourly labour cost for low skilled worker) 
  
• Hourly labour rate craftsman (average hourly labour cost for high skilled worker)
  
  
2. Set your LCC study calculation period as specified by the client/scheme in the ‘Calculation period’ question form.
   
• Please note: If the calculations for your LCA are complete, your LCC results will be displayed after setting the calculation period. You should however adjust the LCC based on your project cost specific info.
  
  
3. The construction material costs are included in the ‘Building materials’ question form.
   
• All your building materials and quantities can be automatically imported (see our import options and guidance for import here) or added manually.
  
• If you have already calculated your Mat01 credits with our tool, the materials are automatically taken from your LCA calculation question form ‘Building materials’.
  
• If your license includes automated costing database, the software provides you default unit costs, which you can edit as necessary. If you know the lump sum of your material costs, edit the 'Total cost', make sure to mark Unit cost '1'. If your license does not include LCC database, add all costs manually.
  
• Please note, when adding materials or editing quantities, units or service life in this question form, the inputs will also change in the LCA tool and vice versa.
  
• If you have cost data available for whole building element, you can mark the ‘Total cost’ to be 0 for those material rows on the Building materials question form and add the element total cost to the ‘Other capital cost’ question form, under ‘Construction cost’ and mark to the comment field it’s name (e.g. External windows and rooflights). Make sure to mark the service life to enable replacement cost calculation.
  
• You can use the comment row to structure your cost elements or mark if they are not included in your cost calculations if you wish.
  
  
4. The operational costs are included in the ‘Energy consumption’, ‘Water consumption’ and ‘Other operating cost’ question forms.
   
• Like building materials, the energy and water consumption values are taken from your LCA calculations (and vice versa). The software will provide you default unit cost (if LCC cost database is included to your license), which you can adjust as necessary. If you know the annual costs for water and energy consumption, change the Total cost.
  
• Other operational costs (cleaning, minor repair, etc.) are to be added to ‘Other operating cost’ question form. Most of the inputs are calculated based on area. If you know the lump sum of the cost element, set the 'Unit cost' as 1 and insert ‘Total cost’.
  
  
5. Replacement costs are calculated based on the total cost and service life of your construction materials.
   
   
6. Enter all other costs under ‘Other capital cost’ or ‘Other operational cost’ question forms.
   
• Make sure to provide all inputs per annum.
  
  
7. Your LCC calculation is ready, you can analyse your results on the Results page.
   
• The results can be downloaded when clicking on ‘More actions’ (upper right corner on Results page) and ‘Life-cycle cost report’.