This document discusses how to justify capital projects to management by focusing on financial impacts rather than technical details. It recommends outlining the current situation, issues, costs of inaction, recommendations, and next steps. It also provides equations for calculating profits from power generation or costs for services. Finally, it briefly discusses operational excellence, outages, and wrapping up a presentation.

1. ENGR 426
Facilities Engineering Design 2
March 31st 2015

2. WHO WE ARE

3. COMMUNICATION

4. Don’t Talk Engineering
Talk Money

5. CAPITAL
JUSTIFICATION
• Statement of
situation
• Issues
• Cost of doing
nothing
• Recommendations
• Next steps

6. EQUATIONS

7. IF YOU’RE SELLING POWER
PROFITS = REVENUE - COST

8. IF YOU’RE PROVIDING A SERVICE
Costs = Electric + Fuel + Water +
Sewer + Labor + Maintenance
(contractors + materials)

9. Operational
Excellence and
What its Worth

36. Outages and How
to Tie in Your
Projects

38. WRAP UP