Social challenge/ impact linked to:

Level of importance

1 - High Importance / must have

Description

Indicators of Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Intervention subcriterion will assess the financial feasibility of the project scenario.

Project's initial costs are those occurring during the design and construction phases.

Scale as linked to D2.2 framework

• Project Area

Data source and input type

Connection with SDGs

• Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

Required Data

• Parametric costs; At the beginning of the project.

Expected Outputs

• estimated initial cost (€)

Calculation methods

• Different methods can be used to assess initial cost and the choice among them depends on the detail of the available data and of the evaluation itself. These methods can be classified in three different approaches:

• 1) Top-down synthetic approach: when few and generic information is available, the estimation can be carried out by analogy with existing projects or by experts opinions;

  2) Bottom-up analytical approach: when more and detailed information is available, the estimation can be carried out using the work (cost) breakdown structure;

  3) Parametric approach: the estimation is carried out by analogy with existing projects but high quality data are needed.

Level of expertise required

• High
• Given the high degree of expertise needed to calculate this indicator, the technical stakeholders can contribute to the provision of data needed for the estimation model implementation.

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