Study on life cycle costing: a case of building for private high school in Jakarta

Abstract

There are increasing awareness of life cycle costing (LCC) by the management who has lengthy experience in operation and maintenance of the building. Maintenance of buildings includes replacement, updating, and repair building components in accordance with predetermined standards. This research aim at identifying building maintenance practices of a private high school Building in Jakarta. This instrument of the study was referred to Regulation of Minister of Public Works. Another aim is to identify service life of the building components, and conducts 25 years life cycle cost plan for the school management by adopting model of LCC from ISO 15686 part 5. Research data obtained by distributing questionnaires to the Section of Maintenance 30 persons, and school teachers 68 persons. Result showed that the implementation of the management school provides a score of 4.6 out of 5 scale and considered as a very good maintenance performance for the building. To confirms whether the user perception on the operating and maintenance efforts, a similarly assessment were obtained from direct users who provide a good category. From the results of life cycle costing, the study shows that: for long-term life cycle cost plan, the proportion cost for 1) construction, 2) operational, and 3) replacement and maintenance are 46%, 39% and 15% respectively.