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Benefits Guide™
A design professional's guide to high performance office building benefits
Your firm designs office buildings? Ask yourself this question:
"How can I simultaneously increase client satisfaction and improve my firm's marketability?"
Simple. Ask your clients what they want and give it to them with a process that consistently delivers a building that performs. Advanced Buildings, a resource to improve the way buildings are designed, built and used, will enable you to do just that. The Advanced Building Benefits Guide is a tool to help you deliver high performance buildings to your clients and distinguish yourself in the market.
What is the Advanced Buildings Benefits Guide?
This Benefits Guide is created to assist architects and designers in working with real estate developers and corporate, public sector and institutional owners who are constructing or renovating office buildings. The Benefits Guide will also be valuable to owners or others seeking more depth on the benefits of high performance.
The Benefits Guide is written to help you generate demand for high performance design from your clients. It provides business benefits and financial rationale so more people in your firm who can confidently respond to the Owner's question "Why is this in my interest?" From the information and testimonials provided in the Benefits Guide, you can select and deliver the messages that best match your clients' priorities.
The Benefits Guide also discusses the value of differentiating your firm by consistently delivering high performance benefits to your clients, and provides processes to do so.
Written to help dispel myths and misperceptions about building high performance, the Benefits Guide provides market perspectives and benefits, and presents current financial information in the terms used by your clients - real estate investment and business professionals.
What benefits are discussed?
The matrix below presents a range of high performance building benefits that have been well documented by environmental science and business research, all of which are detailed in the Benefits Guide.
What's inside?
- Creating High Performance. Discusses the characteristics of high performance buildings, design guidelines and rating systems, and the design process. Describes the Advanced Buildings project and resources that help designers, developers and owners create high performance commercial buildings.
- Beyond the Myths. Discusses the issues associated with high performance office buildings, including common myths and misperceptions about upfront costs, payback periods, energy efficiency improvements, company experience and risk.
- Benefits of Building High Performance. Presents the business benefits of high performance office space, including energy savings, as well as non-energy benefits such as corporate productivity, occupant satisfaction, risk management and environmental stewardship.
- Money Matters. Discusses the economics associated with high performance buildings, including approaches to evaluating the financial costs and benefits of high performance buildings, and building appraisals. Resources. Lists where to find financial analysis tools, incentives and technical information on high performance buildings.