Benefits Guide: A Design Professional's Guide To High Performance Office Building Benefits

The Benefits Guide, a product of Advanced Buildings, illustrates the many benefits of high performance and how to achieve them. High performance buildings use less energy, provide superior indoor environmental quality, enhance worker productivity and well-being, and improve the bottom line. Yet, most buildings are not high performance. Written to assist architects and designers in working with real estate developers and owners who are building or renovating commercial buildings, the Benefits Guide shows why going high performance on your next project is a great investment.

The Benefits Guide helps owners, architects and designers generate demand for high performance building design, providing business benefits and financial rationale that address the owner's question "Why is this in my interest?". The Benefits Guide also helps your firm gain a market advantage by enabling you to consistently deliver these benefits to your clients.

The Section titles tell much of the story:

• Creating High Performance
• Beyond the Myths of High Performance
• Benefits of Building High Performance
• Money Matters
• Resources