August 31, 2007—From individual landlords to managers of government properties world-wide, the costs of providing a safe and productive workplace are largely unknown. The Whitestone Building Operations Cost Reference 2007-2008 provides a new analytical view of operations costs, one intended to replace ad hoc approximation or ill-suited surveys, says the company.
Cost statistics are presented for 56 building types in 210 major US and Canadian metropolitan areas.
The publication was more than three years in development and tested with many of the largest US real estate portfolios, says Whitestone. Also available from Whitestone is a companion work, the Whitestone Building Maintenance and Repair Cost Reference 2007-2008. Now in its 12th annual edition, this book provides a detailed repair and component replacement costs for the same 56 building models used in the Whitestone Building Operations Cost Reference 2007-2008. Maintenance cost data is provided for over 1,000 building components.
Whitestone Research, with offices in Washington, DC and Santa Barbara, California, specializes in applied policy research and software development. For more information, or to order the guides, visit the Web site.
Whitestone Research also provides FMLink with the data for the monthly Building Cost Indices section of FMLink.
