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Analyzing your Certification Scoring Efforts -- Operational Reports

After you enter your self-scores and update scoring totals, you can analyze your rating project using the following reports, available from the Score - Review process. The following reports focus on operations. For further analysis, see Certification Scoring - Management Reports.

Building Score

After you enter your self-scores and calculate your total score, run this report for a summary of your rating project. Select a rating project, and at the top of the right pane, the view presents summary data about your project's score: the total self-score points, the total official score points, the corresponding certification levels for these scores, the total annual savings of implementing the project's credits, and the total capital cost of implementing the project's credits. Note that you can immediately see how your self-score and official scores compare, and the corresponding certification level for each.

To review this information by classification category, scroll through the report and review the category summaries. You can also review the score and financial data for individual credits.

For further analysis of your score, be sure to see the Rating Project Payback Period report, documented below.

Rating Project Notes and Documents

Run this report if you need to see at one time all notes and documents associated with a rating project. Click the Show button next to the document to display it.

Rating Project Payback Period

If you enter the capital cost and expected annual savings of each credit when you self-score, this report can present the payback period for individual credits, the total for the each certification category, and the total for the rating project as a whole. Knowing how quickly you can recuperate the capital costs of improvements can help you develop an overall strategic plan and prioritize individual improvements.

Since the report provides the payback period for each individual credit, you can use this information to help you determine how best to proceed. For example, if meeting a credit requires minimum capital cost and has an immediate payback period, you might want to immediately make this change. Similarly, if meeting a credit is going to have a long payback period but meeting this particular credit will eventually be required for you to move to the next certification level, you might want to start on it now so that you can start to recuperate its high cost.

If you are using your rating projects for what-if analysis to determine how best to proceed, you will find the payback period information vital for assessing the financial impact of different scenarios.

Certification Standard Definition Reports

You may need to review the definition of your certification standards in formatted reports. The following reports are available for reviewing the definition of your certification standards.

For information on the exact fields presented by these reports, see the topic that describes how to develop this information, Entering Environmental Certification Scoring Standards.