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Verifying Project Outcomes: Which Metrics Work?

Project success is increasingly tied to performance metrics, especially EUI. But that doesn’t always capture what owners are really looking for.

by Candace Pearson

As outcome-based contracts become more popular, there’s more money on the line to meet performance metrics.

But are those metrics fair? And do they reliably measure the outcomes that we really care about?

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Published September 7, 2016

Pearson, C. (2016, September 7). Verifying Project Outcomes: Which Metrics Work?. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/feature-shorts/verifying-project-outcomes-which-metrics-work

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