This course, High-Performance Sustainable Building Investments, delivers the strategies needed for building a business case for high-performance investments. Learners will practice bundling social, environmental, and economic factors, fully integrating all facets of the triple bottom line.

By leveraging analysis tools such as ROI, NPV, and IRR, learners will be equipped to promote and gain buy-in for sustainability and high-performance investment projects. 

 Key topic areas:

defining value within a sustainability framework • balancing and prioritizing the triple bottom line • tangible and intangible valuation drivers •performance contracting and energy service companies • benchmarking beyond energy • triple bottom line analysis • whole building design • high-performance interiors and internal systems • • high-performance exteriors and building systems • internal and external funding resources • engaging stakeholders • measurement and verification