Life Cycle Plans - Managing Yearly Scheme Costs

Once you have created a Life Cycle Plan and added maintenance works you can then manage that year's Scheme Costs.

To start managing a year's scheme costs

1. Open a Life Cycle Plan and click the Total Cost value.
The Total Cost value is located at the bottom of the year column as shown below. Clicking this will open the corresponding year's Scheme Costs window.



2. Details of Maintenance Works. The Scheme Costs window comprises a summary of the all the maintenance works for that year regardless of which element the maintenance has been added to.



3. Adding Scheme Costs. Below the Details of Maintenance Works is the Scheme Costs section. This comprises of six tabs where the user can add/adjust the:
  • Work Pattern
  • Traffic Management
  • Engineering Difficulty (Scheme level)
  • Other Costs
  • Design Costs
  • Revenue Costs



4. Viewing the Costs Summary. Below the Scheme Costs section is the the Costs Summary, here the user can view the effect of making various Scheme Costs selections has on the overall costs.



The Costs Summary also allows the user to manually define the Uplift for work pattern, Traffic Management, Uplift for Engineering Difficulty for scheme and Cost of Preliminaries.

To user define the Design Cost click on the Design Cost tab in the Scheme Costs section.