Practical Guides

Research-informed prompts for different decision roles.

Different roles meet the SELRA chain at different points: selection, structuring, realization, evidence preservation, verification readiness, financing shells, and contractual or operational records.

These public guides are educational and research-informed. They do not provide legal advice, engineering certification, investment advice, performance certification, or a performance guarantee.

Practical Guide

Owners / CEOs

Project value, accountability, lifecycle outcomes, and whether selected value survives the full project chain.

Common failure mode

Approving a project as a visible improvement while object construction, accountability, verification, and post-guarantee life remain weak.

Practical Guide

CFOs

Capital allocation, financing shell, payback/NPV quality, risk visibility, and durable economic effect.

Common failure mode

Treating payback or NPV as reliable while the project object, alternatives, verification path, or financing shell hides selection or realization risk.

Practical Guide

Chief Engineers / Energy Managers

Baseline, operating hours, installed equipment, acceptance, maintenance, verification readiness, and evidence.

Common failure mode

Technical assumptions are treated as stable even when operating conditions, installed scope, quality constraints, or maintenance burdens later change.

Practical Guide

Procurement / Legal

Tender object, acceptance conditions, responsibility map, verification clauses, remedies, and handover.

Common failure mode

The tender or contract defines a purchasable object but leaves selected value, responsibility boundaries, remedies, or operating evidence unclear.

Practical Guide

Consultants / ESCOs / Contractors

Project definition, evidence package, implementation responsibility, result confirmation, and durable handover.

Common failure mode

A project claim is persuasive at proposal stage but difficult for decision-makers to inspect after implementation or guarantee expiration.

Practical Guide

Researchers

Selection-stage object, realization evidence, transparent counterfactuals, cross-case data, and future extensions.

Common failure mode

Cases are compared without a clear project object, evidence boundary, or reconstruction logic for selection-stage and realization-stage loss.