Moores Furniture Group commissioned BRE (formerly Building Research Establishment) to carry out a Whole Life Cost analysis on Moores kitchen products in the Social Housing environment.

The construction industry is being driven to understand the cost of building components over their lifetime as opposed to concentrating on initial capital costs.

BRE research has shown that kitchen furniture can be as much as 15.79% of a social landlords housing replacement budget costs. A Whole Life Cost analysis on a high capital cost and high maintenance cost building component such as kitchens offers the greatest benefit or potential cost saving.

This report has taken into account the factors that are most likely to vary between one organisation and another in order to understand the sensitivity of such factors as maintenance intervals, capital costs, replacement intervals and discount rates.

The Whole Life Cost analysis has been carried out using the BRE developed WLComparator model that provides output in graphical and tabular format. BRE concluded that “the Pioneer MR product, due to its durable and repairable nature has the lowest Whole Life Cost of the three products considered”.

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