A Note on the Optimal Design of an Office Building

Peter F. Colwell () and M. Shahid Ebrahim
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Peter F. Colwell: Department of Finance University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 340 Commerce West 1206 South Six Street Champaign, Illinois 61820, http://www.cba.uiuc.edu/finance/
M. Shahid Ebrahim: Department of Management Studies University of Brunei Darussalam Bandar Seri Begawan 2028 Brunei Darussalam, http://www.ubd.edu.bn/

Journal of Real Estate Research, 1997, vol. 14, issue 2, pages 169-174

Abstract: This study examines the economics of the optimal footprint area, atrium area, and height of an office building. We extend the work of Doiron, Shilling and Sirmans (1992) by incorporating realistic revenue and cost functions and reverting to the sufficient conditions of optimaility.

JEL-codes: L85 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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