AJM32
Electrical
- Dec 1, 2005
- 9
I work for a MEP consultant and engineering firm with clients predominatly in the healthcare industry. We regularly add or renovate a great deal of a hospital's infrastructure, affecting equipment that is a pretty hefty capital investment. In doing so, we regularly run into different emergency generator sets, boiler sets, etc, that have very different initial and/or maintanence/operational costs. In addition, these pieces of equipment also have varying rates of energy/water use. Many of these use very different technologies that makes comparing them economically very difficult.
I'm looking for software that will compare alternative equipment, taking into account energy savings, tax effects (credits, depreciation, etc), have the ability to input varying energy costs based on time of day or year or location, use the DOE's predictions of future energy cost increases, do a sensitivity analysis on the effects to the bottom line if the DOE's predictions are junk, plus anything else that would allow me to quantify, in present value terms, systems that have the same end by very different means.
I'm probably asking too much to find software out there that has all of this, but if I could even find some open code freeware that I could alter for my purposes, it would be vastly better than starting from scratch, which is the plan right now.
If anyone knows of software that would put me in the right direction, I would love to know about it.
Best Regards,
Andrew Meyers
I'm looking for software that will compare alternative equipment, taking into account energy savings, tax effects (credits, depreciation, etc), have the ability to input varying energy costs based on time of day or year or location, use the DOE's predictions of future energy cost increases, do a sensitivity analysis on the effects to the bottom line if the DOE's predictions are junk, plus anything else that would allow me to quantify, in present value terms, systems that have the same end by very different means.
I'm probably asking too much to find software out there that has all of this, but if I could even find some open code freeware that I could alter for my purposes, it would be vastly better than starting from scratch, which is the plan right now.
If anyone knows of software that would put me in the right direction, I would love to know about it.
Best Regards,
Andrew Meyers
