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Why should any of us care about High Performance, Green Building or Energy Conservation in Buildings?
Economically Justified Energy Conservation and Green Building Applications equal more dollars in your wallet! They can have a positive economic impact on your bottom line, when evaluated and applied correctly. Are you a Builder? A Multi-Family developer? A Low, Moderate or Affordable Housing Provider? Do you own Apartments or do tax credit driven, income producing Historic Building Renovations? Do you own buildings or a business? Maybe you are an inner city Redevelopment and Housing Agency or a Non Profit Housing Provider? Are you a homeowner, improving your existing house or building a new home? It doesn’t matter: Evaluating and applying cost justified High Performance, Energy Saving, Green building applications puts or keeps more dollars in your wallet, never mind that it is also the right thing to consider and do when substantiated. Let’s face it, Energy Conservation or Green Building Techniques are not the reason we build or renovate any type of building. They are not the driving forces. We make our decisions based on life’s issues, life style, profit motives, or necessary social endeavors. 99.9% of the time our decisions involving homes and building are controlled by monetary considerations. A Cost vs.Value decision. For most of us, if it costs too much in relationship to the perceived or actual dollar value we are going to get in return, we can’t justify doing it--whether it feels good or not. All of us, when it comes to owning real estate improvements, work with a budget. Budgets deal with money. The overwhelming majority of us have to justify the monetary expenditure. Whether you are a For-Profit Enterprise, a Non-Profit Entity, or a Homeowner, you can ill afford not to investigate High Performance, Energy Saving, Green Building Techniques and Equipment. Then, and only then, after evaluating the economics of the improvements, can you make the decision whether to include any part of these processes in your building or not. That decision has to equate to an added value justifying the expenditure. Again the Cost vs. Value decision. Some would argue that a for-profit enterprise is more concerned with money and its expenditure, then say a non-profit inner city housing provider. That’s incorrect. These agencies have to scrutinize expenditures. They have little room for error. Non-Profits and Government Agencies work with limited monetary resources. They additionally have to be concerned with the end user’s economic situation. This concern mandates an obligation to evaluate and apply economically justified High Performance, Green, Energy Conservation building applications. A For-Profit entity has to determine whether the items or processes inclusion will mean making the necessary profit and thereby put more dollars in the wallet. The Non-Profit has to insure the processes will keep enough dollars in the end users wallet to justify any additional expenditures, while keeping the final product affordable. The Homeowner needs to insure there High Performance inclusions will keep more dollars in their wallet during the home’s occupancy. Economically justified, practical, common sense applications of High Performance, Energy Conserving and Green Building techniques is the motivating factor behind this Web Site’s creation. It is its reason for being: Utilizing common sense and practicality in making economic decisions regarding the utilization of these techniques. We believe these techniques and processes should always be considered, not shunned aside as being to costly or to complicated, based on a gut feeling or somebody else’s opinion. We believe relating costs in dollars, to received benefits in return, should be considered in every building project. After evaluating these processes, techniques and equipment, only those that make sense should then be included in your building. Each segment of the Building and Real Estate Industry has different expectations. This site is broken down into individual categories to simplify your search for criteria relevant to your situation. Please check the sub headings under the following categories:
Any of the procedures, systems, opinions, or examples offered herein are for informational purposes only and not to be relied upon for application |
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