Applications of Life-Cycle Cost Analysis to Homeland Security Issues in Constructed Facilities: A Case Study

摘要

The Office of Applied Economics, a unit of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is developing economic tools evaluation methods and software for implementing these methods for evaluating the management of terrorist risks. This report is one in a series focused on these economic tools. It illustrates how to apply a series of standardized methods to evaluate and compare the cost-effectiveness of security-related investments in constructed facilities. This report describes a renovation project for a prototypical data center. The renovation has been planned for some time to upgrade the data centers HVAC, telecommunications and data processing systems and to address a number of generic security concerns.