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  • Bring up the Run Analysis Wizard again and expand the Decision Support category and select Equivalent Cost Analysis. Click the Finish button.
  • Click on the Equivalent Cost Analysis box in the analysis graph to bring up the form page.
  • For Result Name, choose something like As-Built ECA and for Building Decision Attributes, choose the dataset you just created in the previous step. In the Decision Parameters section, you can either choose to change the conversion values for the non-monetary variables or leave the defaults.
  • Click the Execute button.
  • You should now have a new dataset with the monetary cost of each decision variable for each building.

One useful visualization for these results is running a statistical analysis on the results. Do the following to bring up the statistics view.

  • Right click on the new dataset (e.g. As-Built ECA), and select Show Attribute Table. This should bring up the Table View of the results. In the Table View, find and click on the summation (Image Added) icon.

Analyzing Results

Now that the analyses that we were interested in have been completed, it's time to analyze and try to make sense of the results. There are various ways of viewing and visualizing the results, which we will learn now.

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