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As you value-engineer your project, be sure to examine green investments in terms of how they will affect expenses over the entire life of the building. Before you decide to cut a line item, look first at its relationship to other features to see if keeping it will help you achieve money-saving synergies, as well as LEED credits. Many energy-saving features allow for the resizing or elimination of other equipment, or reduce total capital costs by paying for themselves immediately or within a few months of operation. Even more effective in the long-run is to implement "life cycle" value-engineering rather than "first cost" value-engineering. |
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See the resources below for help assessing life cycle costs: International Design Center for the Environment IDCE is a non-profit organization that promotes community sustainability and develops and disseminates tools for scientifically robust and efficient lifecycle analysis of common materials. LBLN High Performance Commercial Building Systems The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is developing a set of life cycle cost tools for improving commercial building performance. Whole Building Design Guide - Life Cycle Tools The Whole Building Design Guide, developed by the National Institute of Building Sciences, provides a variety of life cycle cost and assessment tools. Federal Energy Management Program Here is an additional resource for downloading software developed by the National Institute of Building Sciences Building Life-Cycle Cost programs. |
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