Whole Life Cycle Costing and Quality Satisfaction: Public Housing Floor Material

Abstract:

Most commonly, residents are always arguing about the satisfaction of sustainability and quality of their high rise residential property. This paper aim is to maintain the best quality satisfaction of the floor materials by introducing the whole life cycle costing approach to the property manager of the public housing in Johor. This paper looks into the current situation of floor material of two public housings in Johor, Malaysia and testing the whole life cycle costing approach towards them. The cost figures may be implemented to justify higher investments, for examples, in the quality or flexibility of building solutions through a long-term cost reduction. The calculation and the literature review are conducted. The questionnaire surveys of two public housings were conducted to make clear the occupants evaluation about the actual quality conditions of the floor material in their house. As a result, the quality of floor material based on the whole life cycle costing approach is one of the best among their previous decision making tool that was applied. Practitioners can benefit from this paper as it provides information on calculating the whole life costing and making the decisions for floor material selection for their properties.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 717)
• Pages: 877-883
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.717.877
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Noorsidi Aizuddin Mat Noor
• Keywords: Floor Materials, Housing, Public Housing, Whole Life Cycle Costing

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