2.  Financing Options

3.  Building Economic Analysis

4.  Whole Life Costing

• Capital Investment Appraisal / Appraisal Techniques http://www.capital-investment.co.uk/capital-investment-appraisal.php
• Beggs, C., 2009. Energy: Management, Supply and Conservation, 2nd ed., Chp. 8 Project Investment Appraisal,  Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford. [696 B41][PDF]
• 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]
• What is Whole Life Costing, Life Cycle Analysis and Life Cycle Costing?, Briefing Note 12, Willmott Dixon [PDF]
• Whole Life Costing http://constructingexcellence.org.uk/resources/whole-life-costing/
• Whole Life Costing Factsheet [PDF]
• Case Studies on Financing (from State of NSW, Australia):
  
• CASE STUDY 1: Using an Environmental Upgrade Agreement to finance an efficient heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system [PDF]
  
• CASE STUDY 2: Using on-bill financing to finance a lighting upgrade [PDF]
• CASE STUDY 4: Using an Energy Services Agreement to finance a chiller upgrade system [PDF]
  

• USEPA, 2008. EnergyStar Building Upgrade Manual, Chapter 3 Investment Analysis & Chapter 4 Financing, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. [http://www.energystar.gov/buildings/tools-and-resources/building-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

• Investment appraisal http://kfknowledgebank.kaplan.co.uk/KFKB/Wiki%20Pages/Investment%20appraisal.aspx
  
• Basic investment appraisal techniques
• Discount cash flow techniques
• 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 cost -- Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole-life_cost
  
• Whole Life Costing Forum (UK) http://www.wlcf.org.uk
• Whole-Life Costs for Buildings WLC http://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Whole-life_costs_for_buildings_WLC
• 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