Following up

The CCC contestants will be making their cases on Monday in the public forum however as most of the entries will cost the same amount,, not much less than the maximum budget, cost will not be a factor. So what will? the largest amount of glass, who has the shiniest CVs or any other Wow factor? In a recent post one really intelligent suggestion has been made - who has the best suggestion to lower operating costs? Who is using the most environmetally friiendly systems? In other words which of these building will be cheapest to maintain. As operating costs will the key to public support in the years after contruction surely a really good assessment of operating costs per building should be the main consideration, for as the commenter said almost all the buildings look alike and if they cost the same, within a few thousands, there has to be one distinguishing factor. Let them all be measured on operating costs.