HP - High Performance Sustainable Building Investments

High-Performance Sustainable Building Investments delivers the strategies needed for building a business case for high-performance investments. You 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, you will be equipped to promote and gain buy-in for sustainability and high performance investment projects.

Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:

• Identify and engage business stakeholders by demonstrating the value of investments from a 3BL approach
• Illustrate how social and environmental returns enhance economic returns for a stronger overall investment
• Illustrate the value of high-performance projects through operational-focused and asset-focused industry benchmarks and tools
• Implement project delivery using a whole-building approach by bundling retrofit projects that maximize potential benefits
• Leverage financing resources, including internal capital budgets, off-sheet financing and utility and tax rebate programs, among others, in order to mitigate overall costs of high-performance projects
• Address methods for marketing project successes to key stakeholders through quantifiable results and performance reporting

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

Important Notes 

• If you do want to earn the High-Performance Sustainable Buildings Designation, please enroll here: https://www.aoba-metro.org/events/hp---high-performance-sustainable-buildings-designation. The first 15 students who enroll in the designation will receive a partial scholarship. The partial scholarship reduces the cost of the designation from $3,300 to $2,475, a savings of 25%, or $825 per course!! 
• All books will be printed and available on the first day of the course
• New students enrolling in the designation incur an additional $225 fee
• Current designation holders enrolling in a second designation program incur an additional $100 fee
• Students taking this course for CPD credit incur an additional charge of $100