Making the case for lifecycle costing.  Dave Woods, Homes and Investment Director of First Choice Homes Oldham explains their buying ethos.  How careful choices of materials and good design reduces whole life cost, adds value to your relations with customers and gives you immediate maintenance benefits. Grant and public money for HAs is reducing, bringing extra pressure for resilient efficient operations. Dave will  present his experiences of working in this way and show how it has added value across a broad range of practical investment decisions. His aim is to stimulate useful, evidence based debate.