ASTM E1765-98

Standard Practice for Applying Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to Multiattribute Decision Analysis of Investments Related to Buildings and Building Systems

SCOPE
1.1 This practice presents a procedure for calculating and interpreting AHP scores of a project's total overall desirability when making building-related capital investment decisions.  
1.2 In addition to monetary benefits and costs, the procedure allows for the consideration of characteristics or attributes which decision makers regard as important, but which are not readily expressed in monetary terms. Examples of such attributes that pertain to the selection of a building alternative (and its surroundings) are location/ accessibility, site security, maintainability, quality of the sound and visual environment, and image to the public and occupants.

General Information

• Status: Historical
• Publication Date: 31-Dec-1994
• ICS: 03.100.50 - Production. Production management
• ICS: 91.010.99 - Other aspects
• Technical Committee: E06 - Performance of Buildings
• Drafting Committee: E06.81 - Building Economics

Relations

• Replaced By: ASTM E1765-02 - Standard Practice for Applying Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to Multiattribute Decision Analysis of Investments Related to Buildings and Building Systems
• Effective Date: 10-Oct-2002
• Referred By: ASTM E3130-21 - Standard Guide for Developing Cost-Effective Community Resilience Strategies
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1995
• Referred By: ASTM E2166-16(2023) - Standard Practice for Organizing and Managing Building Data
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1995
• Referred By: ASTM E1074-15(2020)e1 - Standard Practice for Measuring Net Benefits and Net Savings for Investments in Buildings and Building Systems
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1995
• Referred By: ASTM E917-17(2023) - Standard Practice for Measuring Life-Cycle Costs of Buildings and Building Systems
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1995
• Referred By: ASTM E2495-18 - Standard Practice for Prioritizing Asset Resources in Acquisition, Utilization, and Disposition
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1995
• Referred By: ASTM E2204-15(2020)e1 - Standard Guide for Summarizing the Economic Impacts of Building-Related Projects
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1995
• Referred By: ASTM E2506-15(2020)e1 - Standard Guide for Developing a Cost-Effective Risk Mitigation Plan for New and Existing Constructed Facilities
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1995
• Referred By: ASTM E964-15(2020)e1 - Standard Practice for Measuring Benefit-to-Cost and Savings-to-Investment Ratios for Buildings and Building Systems
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1995
• Referred By: ASTM E2771-11(2019) - Standard Terminology for Homeland Security Applications
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1995
• Referred By: ASTM E1699-14(2020) - Standard Practice for Performing Value Engineering (VE)/Value Analysis (VA) of Projects, Products and Processes
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1995
• Referred By: ASTM E1057-15(2020)e1 - Standard Practice for Measuring Internal Rate of Return and Adjusted Internal Rate of Return for Investments in Buildings and Building Systems
• Effective Date: 01-Jan-1995

Standards Content (Sample)

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Designation: E 1765 – 98 An American National Standard
Standard Practice for
Applying Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to
Multiattribute Decision Analysis of Investments Related to
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Buildings and Building Systems
This standard is issued under the fixed designation E 1765; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
INTRODUCTION
The analytical hierarchy process (AHP) is one of a set of multi-attribute decision analysis (MADA)
methods that considers nonmonetary attributes (qualitative and quantitative) in addition to common
economic evaluation measures (such as life-cycle costing or net benefits) when evaluating project
alternatives. Building-related decisions depend in part on how competing options perform with respect
to nonmonetary attributes. This practice complements existing ASTM standards on building
economics by incorporating the existing economic/monetary measures of worth described in those
standards into a more comprehensive standard method of evaluation that includes nonmonetary
(quantitative and nonquantitative) benefits and costs. The AHP is the MADA method described in this
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practice. It has three significant strengths: an efficient attribute weighting process of pairwise
comparisons; hierarchical descriptions of attributes, which keep the number of pairwise comparisons
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manageable; and available software to facilitate its use.
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1. Scope E 631 Terminology of Building Constructions
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E 833 Terminology of Building Economics
1.1 This practice presents a procedure for calculating and
E 917 Practice for Measuring Life-Cycle Costs of Buildings
interpreting AHP scores of a project’s total overall desirability
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3 and Building Systems
when making building-related capital investment decisions.
E 964 Practice for Measuring Benefit-to-Cost and Savings-
1.2 In addition to monetary benefits and costs, the procedure
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to-Investment Ratios for Buildings and Building Systems
allows for the consideration of characteristics or attributes
E 1057 Practice for Measuring Internal Rate of Return and
which decision makers regard as important, but which are not
Adjusted Internal Rate of Return for Investments in Build-
readily expressed in monetary terms. Examples of such at-
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ings and Building Systems
tributes that pertain to the selection of a building alternative
E 1074 Practice for Measuring Net Benefits for Investments
(and its surroundings) are location/accessibility, site security,
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in Buildings and Building Systems
maintainability, quality of the sound and visual environment,
E 1121 Practice for Measuring Payback for Investments in
and image to the public and occupants.
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Buildings and Building Systems
2. Referenced Documents E 1334 Practice for Rating the Serviceability of a Building
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or Building-Related Facility
2.1 ASTM Standards:
E 1480 Terminology of Facility Management (Building-
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Related)
E 1557 Classification for Building Elements and Related
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This practice is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee E-6 on Performance
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Sitework—UNIFORMAT II
of Buildings and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee E06.81 on Building
Economics. E 1660 Classification for the Serviceability of an Office
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Current edition approved April 10, 1998. Published August 1998. Originally
Facility for Support for Office Work
published as E 1765 – 95. Last previous edition E 1765 – 95.
2 E 1661 Classification for the Serviceability of an Office
For an extensive overview of MADA methods and a detailed treatment of how
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to apply two MADA methods (one of which is AHP) to building-related decisions, Facility for Meetings and Group Effectiveness
see Norris, G. A., and Marshall, H. E., Multiattribute Decision Analysis: Recom-
E 1662 Classification for the Serviceability of an Office
mended Method for Evaluating Buildings and Building Systems, National Institute
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Facility for Sound and Visual Environment
of Standards and Technology, 1995.
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E 1663 Classification for the Serviceability of an Office
This practice presents a stand-alone procedure for performing an AHP analysis.
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In addition, an ASTM software product for performing AHP analyses has been Facility for Typical Office Information Technology
developed to support and facilitate use of this practice. User’s Guide to AHP/Expert
Choice for ASTM Building Evaluation, MNL 29, ASTM, 1998.
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Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 04.11.
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