Also, he explained, the arts phase of the project is particularly energizing because of its symbolic value: "In a way the arts community kept downtown alive for many years, and now we get to provide payback — in a manner that will benefit everyone".
A shift to productivity-based competition is only likely to be attractive if contractors can build the scale (and repeatability) needed to drive cost efficiencies from productivity gains that outweigh revenue losses from lower price points and fewer customer claims, and provide payback on up-front and ongoing investments in technology or skill building.
The results of the study have shown that EVs can have a significant impact on a distributed energy resource investment, provided the payback periods are relatively small.
At the same time it could have picked the island's economy off the floor and provided positive payback to the Rastas whose lives have been made a misery by the police.
Most of these innovations, he adds, not only save on resources but also money, providing a payback in three years or less.
Financial analysis results suggest that the components provide a payback of 11 years at 8% discounting rate and 7 years at non discounted values.
We use a new, geographically detailed database of crop locations and yields, along with updated vegetation and soil biomass estimates, to provide carbon payback estimates that are more regionally specific than those in previous studies.
The results confirm the intuitive notion that more generous financial remuneration schemes provide quicker payback; however we observe that in low irradiance regions there is little difference between upfront grants and feed-in-tariffs to accelerate payback timeframes.
For example, an operation where Serco and the existing state-run London Probation Trust jointly provide Community Payback services for the MoJ took around two years to procure.
Real-time, point-of-care use of such systems must provide adequate payback to justify the intrusion into the provider/patient relationship.
