Robert Vogel GmbH & Co. KG
Building Owner: Robert Vogel GmbH & Co. KG	Completion: 2006
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Robert Vogel is a well-known traditional building and property owner company in Hamburg who leases his properties with around 160.000 square metres in the best areas of the Hanseatic city already since several decades. Is a portfolio still profitable also despite its maintenance costs? Is it worth to invest or better to sell? This comprises complex decision processes that have to be considered. With approved methods DS-Plan calculated the life cycle costs for the property portfolio of Robert Vogel to avoid large investment cost peaks and to coordinate the necessary actions better. Only the early knowledge and evaluation of the life cycle costs are the guarantors for a reliable budget planning. Besides a reliable budget planning also other possible saving potentials are important: With the help of the life cycle costs, the necessary data and information for a potential new tendering of the services could be determined. This step leads to a qualified improvement of the services and to a potential cost reduction which is estimated by the experts von Drees & Sommer of around 15 to 20 percent. As life cycle costs are a significant factor to control the profitability of an object, this topic is getting more and more important and is the key factor for an efficient property controlling.