Investment grade audits... Fact, or fiction

Performance contracting is all the rage for facility managers in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Everybody talks about "energy audits " and "investment grade audits," but what's the difference, and what is an audit, really? This article provides a down-to-earth discussion of the need for and benefits to be derived from doing investment grade audits. It also provides a detailed description of what an investment grade audit should be-as based on the author's more-than-two-decades of experience in the performance contracting field and from his nationwide seminar on performance contracting and forthcoming book by The Fairmont Press.