2.  Financing Options

3.  Building Economic Analysis

4.  Whole Life Costing

• Financial energy management matrix [PDF]
• ETSU, 1995. Financial Aspects of Energy Management in Buildings - A Summary, Good Practice Guide 75, Energy Efficiency Best Practice Programme, Energy Technology Support Unit (ETSU), Oxfordshire, UK, 6 pages. [PDF]
• Use Economic Analysis to Evaluate Design Alternatives (Whole Building Design Guide) http://www.wbdg.org/design/use_analysis.php
• Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) (Whole Building Design Guide) http://www.wbdg.org/resources/lcca.php
• Jean-Louis,M.-J., Paré, M. and Nichols, L., 2002. Learning Unit 05: Building Economic Analysis, Increasing Energy Efficiency in Buildings Project, China, Dessau-Soprin Inc., Montreal, Canada, pp. 1-17. [PDF]

• USEPA, 2008. EnergyStar Building Upgrade Manual, Chp. 3 & 4, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. [http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=business.bus_upgrade_manual]
• Boussabaine, H. and Kirkham, R. J., 2004. Whole Life-cycle Costing: Risk and Risk Responses, Blackwell Pub., Oxford. [692.5 B777 w]
• NIST Handbook 135 Life-Cycle Costing Manual, http://www.wbdg.org/ccb/NIST/hdbk_135.pdf
• OGC, 2007. Whole-life Costing, Achieving Excellence in Construction Procurement Guide 7, Office of Government Commerce (OGC), London. [PDF]

• EnergyStar (Buildings) http://www.energystar.gov
• Guidelines for Energy Management Overview
• Net present value -- Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_present_value
• Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) [Whole Building Design Guide] http://www.wbdg.org/resources/lcca.php
• Whole Life Costing Forum (UK) http://www.wlcf.org.uk
• Economic analysis (Accounting Explained):
• Payback Period
• Discounted Payback Period
• Net Present Value (NPV)
• Accounting Rate of Return (ARR)
• Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
• Profitability Index
  
• Investment appraisal methods
• Investment Appraisal : valuation of future projects