Welcome to COMBICYCLE
Whole-life Sustainability and Cost Prediction Program
IFPI (International Facilities and Property Information Ltd.) are proud to offer this new and unique model to prospective building developers/owners and designers across the international scene. A sister program to IFPI's highly successful 'Estatesmaster' Facilities Cost Prediction and Benchmarking Program www.estatesmaster.com 'COMBICYCLE' is a user-friendly web-enabled tool for use at every stage of the development process from the twinkle-in -the-client's-eye to last minute alterations to a scheme under construction.
CombiCycle will be going live from mid October – download this introductory trailer in ppt (10.3mb). to see what this truly exciting new program can do.
About COMBICYCLE
This brand new program has been developed for IFPI Ltd. by Bernard Williams and Malcolm Lay - authors of 'Whole-life Economics of Building Services'.
'COMBICYCLE' 'enables users to predict the whole life costs and sustainability of any building type before a single line has been drawn ' and then at any stage in the design process. It may be used to set budgets and to give both the Employers and their designers best-performance targets against which to testsubsequent design proposals. With 'COMBICYCLE' you can see the cost effects of different design and facilities management strategies in respect of
- Maintenance
- Quality of manufacture
- Specification of components
- Performance requirements etc.
on the costs and sustainability of all the components and systems over any period you wish to choose. It is intended to make 'COMBICYCLE' universally available and internationally applicable. To this end the tool will be dialled up on a pay-as-you-go basis from any developed country by any user. 'COMBICYCLE' will also used as a teaching aid in one of IFPI's in-house Training Programme modules whereby users can learn about whole-life issues whilst testing one or more of their new projects for cost and sustainability against the program. At present this superb tool is only available as part of a consultancy offering but it is being web-enabled for users to access and operate independently - available early 2011.
COMBICYCLE Support
Technological Enquiries
IFPI has a team of experienced building and facilities economists on hand at all times to answer your queries about how to use the program (see also 'HOW TO USE THIS PROGRAM') and on the interpretation of the answers you are getting if they are not exactly what you were expecting or you are not sure how they have been derived.
Technical Enquiries
The program is hosted on a very secure stand alone dedicated linux server running apache; the application is written in PHP using mySQL databases. The set-up is as follows: User Browser and server hosting the PHP source code and Firewall and 1 server hosting the database’ Questions regarding the functioning and updating of the program will be dealt with direct by the program’s designers.
E-Mail Enquiries
Normally queries will be dealt with by e-mail to info@int-fpi.com but in exceptional circumstances telephone contact may be possible (at the user's expense) tel: 00 44 (0)2 08 464 5418.