Autocase for Office Buildings
Measure Occupant Health and Productivity Benefits
Autocase offers software support for valuing indoor environmental quality and other high performing building design initiatives. Our consultants have broad experience with office construction and renovation projects.
Autocase for Sites
Resilient office design starts with effective management of site stormwater. Autocase for Sites calculates the benefits and costs of best management practices that can clean stormwater, reduce flooding, clean the air, and more.
Features
Model 25+ land use and stormwater BMPs Model the impacts for 25+ stormwater design options, including bioretention, swales, and permeable pavement
Rely on regional defaults or override them with inputs of your choosing
Repeatedly run and refine the business case from early planning through detailed design
See results in risk-adjusted dollars, and account for uncertainty using the software’s Monte Carlo simulation of low/expected/high ranges
Compare and collaborate on your projects with others
Build resilient stormwater management into your designs
Autocase for Buildings
Cities planning high performing building projects or pursuing LEED certification need to make the business case. Autocase for Buildings compares the benefits and costs to the environment, community, and occupants of building designs.
Features
Analyze effects of decisions regarding building energy systems, power procurement, daylighting, interior lighting, thermal comfort, water use, stormwater, etc.
Collaborate on your projects with colleagues or share results with clients with one click.
Make the case for LEED and/or secure extra LEED Pilot Credits just by running the software.
Gain a better understanding of how your building decisions are affecting value for passengers, employees and the environment
LEED and TBL-CBA building projects
Take advantage of dozens of regionally-specific values to cater the analysis to your airport
Beyond Life Cycle Financial Analysis with TBL-CBA
Triple Bottom Line Cost Benefit Analysis (TBL-CBA) provides an objective, transparent, and defensible business case framework that expands on traditional financial or life cycle cost analysis to also include environmental and social impacts. With TBL-CBA your office project can be designed to be resilient, sustainable and high-performing -- providing benefits to owners, occupants and the financial bottom line.
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- Indoor Environmental Quality, or IEQ, refers to “the quality of a building’s environment in relation to the health and well-being of those who occupy space within it.”[1] We have developed a method to monetizing the intangible benefits to employees from investing in the improved indoor environmental quality of a work space.
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Because we believe our success, is your success
We provide support
Our annual software licenses come with a range of training and economist support from minimal to extensive as needed. Our experts can support you leveraging our software, as well as develop custom analyses and bespoke analytics for all market sectors.
We offer advisory services
Our team of experiences consultants have completed economic analyses on over $50 billion worth of projects and grant applications. We have worked across all types of city projects from city-wide prioritization of tens of thousands of stormwater management sites to green roof policies and most everything in between.
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