New Work Screen

The Stand Alone New Work Project is a theoretical project to undertake only the works necessary to provide for:

• The catch-up of any Backlog (including the change to any Level of Service to serve existing population & business demands); and
  

  An agreed upon measurement of the amount of, or quality of service an organisation is expected to supply to its customers. For example, housing is expected to be safe. This could be measured by answers to questions such as "Are there security latches on the windows?", "Are smoke detectors fitted in all bedrooms?" and "Is there an alarm system?". To meet the minimum level of service there must be window latches, the next level of service would include smoke detectors and the highest level of service would include alarm systems. There is a higher cost burden required to achieve each higher level of service. See also Performance.

  

  The portion of a planned (or completed) capital project that is required to rectify a shortfall in service capacity to meet existing community demand at the current agreed levels of service.

• Additional capacity to cater for Growth (at the new, if changed, Level of Service)
  

  The portion of a planned (or completed) capital project providing capacity in excess of existing community demand at the current agreed levels of service.

  It is important to confirm that the theoretical project being costed is a Stand Alone New Work rather than a marginal scope or cost. The Stand Alone New Works project will be located in the environment of the proposed works, however it will be Stand Alone, i.e. it will not make use of any existing infrastructure

It is recognised that the total of the stand-alone Renewal costs and the stand-alone New Work costs may total to a cost greater than that of the planned Project.

The gross cost of replacing an existing asset with a modern equivalent asset to the same function and capacity at the end of its life.

Renewal is about the "money put aside" in anticipation of the cost for replacing the asset at some future time. This should not be confused with the asset replacement activity. The asset replacement activity (or rehabilitation work) draws on the knowledge that an asset is reaching the end of its life and is the work planned to ensure that the integrity of the service is maintained. The rehabilitation work may also include elements of backlog and growth to ensure the integrity of the service for some time into the future.