New for 2007 - 2008, this book is a companion to the Whitestone Building Maintenance and Repair Cost Reference. Detailed cost profiles are presented for 56 common building models. Local cost indexes are provided for 210 U.S. and Canadian metropolitan areas. Alternative level of service costs are shown for each operation:

custodial service
energy
grounds
maintenance & repair
management
pest control
refuse
road clearance
security
telecommunications
water & sewer

Use the Whitestone Building Operations Cost Reference together with the Whitestone Building Maintenance and Repair Cost Reference to estimate and analyze total facility operating cost.

What should building M&R really cost? Used annually by thousands of government and private sector decision-makers, this reference is an indispensable resource for M&R budgeting and financial benchmarking. Building maintenance 50-year cost profiles are shown for 56 building models and identify most cost repair tasks and costs by building system. Based on life cycle cost modeling, Whitestone cost profiles draw on a unique collection of data including contract and in-house labor rates by trade for 210 North American metro areas, climatic effects, unscheduled maintenance costs, and a complete library of life cycle tasks for over 1,000 individual components.

Use the Whitestone Building Maintenance and Repair Cost Reference together with your favorite construction cost data source to estimate both new construction and maintenance costs.

Use the Whitestone Building and Maintenance Repair Cost Reference together with the Whitestone Building Operations Cost Reference to estimate and analyze total facility operating cost.

MARS is a powerful tool for managing your real property portfolio. It is both a relational database designed to track the value of your building assets and a forecast system to project the future funding necessary to restore and maintain your facility. MARS is also a management reporting system that provides a collection of pre-defined reports for concisely answering the question: "What should it cost to maintain the functional and financial value of building assets?"

MARS is fully operational upon installation. Using the preloaded building models and extensive component data presented in the Whitestone Building Maintenance and Repair Cost Reference and the Whitestone Building Operations Cost Reference, users can quickly generate meaningful reports with a minimum of data entry. For more details, see the MARS 7 Fact Sheet or schedule a free demo.

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