750
Cost and Time Analysis: Life Cost
752.3.4
As mentioned in Section 752.2.3 above, eleven VA hospitals have been
analyzed in terms of those particular items of life cost on which the
Prototype Design is expected to have some beneficial effect. The
breakdown was as follows:
1. Maintenance and minor alterations cost an average of
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.46 per OGSF
annually for the eleven hospitals in the years 1965, 1966, and 1967.
Bringing this figure up to 1971 and projecting the average annual cost
for the next forty years results in an average annual cost of .62 per
square foot at an average compounded escalation of three percent per
year.
2. Housekeeping costs for the same period were $ .54 per OGSF.
Projected for the next forty years at an average compounded
escalation of three percent per year, this would average
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.34 per
year.
3. Major rehabilitation accounted for an average of $.31 per OGSF per
year. (The only data giving a long enough rehabilitation record to be
useful was obtained at Salt Lake City.) The average annual cost for
forty years, with an average compounded construction cost escalation
of four percent per year, would be
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.09 per year.
The total of these items of operations and maintenance amounts to .05
per square foot per year; for forty years this totals 2.00 per square foot
for the assumed useful life of the building, or five times the first-cost
average of .60 for the six-hospital cost base (Section 351).
752.4
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE
The total average annual cost of maintenance and minor alterations and
housekeeping has been estimated at .96 per OGSF. (Sum of the first
two items listed in 752.3.4 above.) An overall savings of 5% may be
reasonably expected for these items, mainly due to accessibility and
relocatability of service elements, and reduction of down time during
alterations and repairs. Also, the HVC subsystem does not utilize
induction units, so filters are centralized at the air-handling units.
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