All too often, those engaged in examining options for “greening” a new or existing building are constrained in a stove-piped cost analysis which (in a very simplified fashion) goes something along these lines:How much more will it cost to build?And, how fast will energy and other operating cost (water usage/sewers, maintenance) savings pay for those additional costs?This typical analytical structure is mistaken on multiple levels. For example, with a truly holistic systems-of-systems process “go