Corporate Training By Zack Academy - Life Cycle Valuation - Finding the Hidden Value

Why Should You Take This Life Cycle Valuation - Finding the Hidden Value Course?

Life cycle valuation (LCV), or sustainable valuation, considers the long-term complete financial returns and impacts associated with building development or use of a product. It compares these impacts to non-sustainable equivalents, and provides a valued difference.

This Life Cycle Valuation - Finding the Hidden Value course establishes the connection between financial analysis, models and standards. It will explain how standard financial analysis can fail to recognize substantial value, and how barriers to adopting sustainability can be minimized. Completing a LCV can show that returns on investments can be significantly greater than originally conceived. There can be major impacts on determining how to proceed with a building development, including creating a very strong business case for sustainable development.

This course will address the fundamental principles of life cycle value related to sustainable development. Participants will identify how to determine when it can add value, which situations or elements might prove to be barriers, as well as how to minimize or eliminate these barriers. The instructor will discuss real-life examples to demonstrate the elements that need to be considered when conducting life cycle valuation. There will be a particular focus on development and investment value, and the webinar will outline how to communicate life cycle value to both financially- and non-financially motivated audiences. It will also consider how the different perspectives of owners, developers and investors can impact decisions on sustainability. It will describe the importance of how life cycle valuation varies between the private and public sectors, and how knowing this can be used to extract both leverage and value.

Who Should Attend This Life Cycle Valuation - Finding the Hidden Value Course?

• Developers
• Financiers
• Valuers
• Appraisers
• Government Staff 
• Advisors
• LEED Consultants
• Architects
• Anyone else interested in knowing whether sustainable projects and assets provide better value than their less sustainable equivalents

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Discuss the impact of life cycle on value
• Identify when and why sustainability might or might not impact value
• Describe which audiences benefit from life cycle valuation and why
• Discuss the flaws in financial analysis that can potentially hinder sustainability
• Perform basic life cycle valuations
• Better communicate the life cycle value of sustainability

Please Note:  Participants should ideally have basic mathematical knowledge. Some prior knowledge of the basic concepts of life cycle analysis will be beneficial.