ASTM E1765-02

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: 09-Oct-2002
• 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

• Replaces: ASTM E1765-98 - 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
• Replaced By: ASTM E1765-07 - Standard Practice for Applying Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to Multiattribute Decision Analysis of Investments Related to Buildings and Building Systems
• Effective Date: 01-Apr-2007
• Referred By: ASTM E2166-16(2023) - Standard Practice for Organizing and Managing Building Data
• Effective Date: 10-Oct-2002
• Referred By: ASTM E2771-11(2019) - Standard Terminology for Homeland Security Applications
• Effective Date: 10-Oct-2002
• Referred By: ASTM E1699-14(2020) - Standard Practice for Performing Value Engineering (VE)/Value Analysis (VA) of Projects, Products and Processes
• Effective Date: 10-Oct-2002
• Referred By: ASTM E3130-21 - Standard Guide for Developing Cost-Effective Community Resilience Strategies
• Effective Date: 10-Oct-2002
• 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: 10-Oct-2002
• Referred By: ASTM E2204-15(2020)e1 - Standard Guide for Summarizing the Economic Impacts of Building-Related Projects
• Effective Date: 10-Oct-2002
• Referred By: ASTM E917-17(2023) - Standard Practice for Measuring Life-Cycle Costs of Buildings and Building Systems
• Effective Date: 10-Oct-2002
• 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: 10-Oct-2002
• 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: 10-Oct-2002
• Referred By: ASTM E2495-18 - Standard Practice for Prioritizing Asset Resources in Acquisition, Utilization, and Disposition
• Effective Date: 10-Oct-2002
• 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: 10-Oct-2002

Standards Content (Sample)

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Designation: E 1765 – 02
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 E1765; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision.Anumber 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-relateddecisionsdependinpartonhowcompetingoptionsperformwithrespect
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
(quantitativeandnonquantitative)benefitsandcosts.TheAHPistheMADAmethoddescribedinthis
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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.
1. Scope 2. Referenced Documents
1.1 This practice presents a procedure for calculating and 2.1 ASTM Standards:
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interpretingAHPscores of a project’s total overall desirability E631 Terminology of Building Constructions
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when making building-related capital investment decisions. E833 Terminology of Building Economics
1.2 Inadditiontomonetarybenefitsandcosts,theprocedure E917 PracticeforMeasuringLife-CycleCostsofBuildings
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allows for the consideration of characteristics or attributes and Building Systems
which decision makers regard as important, but which are not E964 Practice for Measuring Benefit-to-Cost and Savings-
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readily expressed in monetary terms. Examples of such at- to-Investment Ratios for Buildings and Building Systems
tributes that pertain to the selection of a building alternative E1057 Practice for Measuring Internal Rate of Return and
(and its surroundings) are location/accessibility, site security, Adjusted Internal Rate of Return for Investments in Build-
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maintainability, quality of the sound and visual environment, ings and Building Systems
and image to the public and occupants. E1074 PracticeforMeasuringNetBenefitsforInvestments
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in Buildings and Building Systems
E1121 Practice for Measuring Payback for Investments in
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Buildings and Building Systems
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E1334 Practice for Rating the Serviceability of a Building
This practice is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee E06 on Perfor-
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mance of Buildings and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee E06.81 on or Building-Related Facility
Building Economics.
E1480 Terminology of Facility Management (Building-
Current edition approved Oct. 10, 2002. Published November 2002. Originally
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Related)
published as E1765–95. Last previous edition E1765–98.
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E1557 Classification for Building Elements and Related
For an extensive overview of MADAmethods and a detailed treatment of how
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to apply two MADAmethods (one of which isAHP) to building-related decisions,
Sitework—UNIFORMAT II
see Norris, G. A., and Marshall, H. E., Multiattribute Decision Analysis: Recom-
E1660 Classification for the Serviceability of an Office
mended Method for Evaluating Buildings and Building Systems, National Institute
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Facility for Support for Office Work
of Standards and Technology, 1995.
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Thispracticepresentsastand-aloneprocedureforperforminganAHPanalysis.
In addition, an ASTM software product for performing AHP analyses has been
developedtosupportandfacilitateuseofthispractice. User’s Guide toAHP/Expert
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Choice for ASTM Building Evaluation, MNL 29, ASTM, 1998. Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 04.11.
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E1765–02
E1661 Classification for the Serviceability of an Office attribute weights, check for consistency in pairwise compari-
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Facility for Meetings and Group Effectiveness sons, and develop the final desirability scores of each alterna-
E1662 Classification for the Serviceability of an Office tive.
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Facility for Sound and Visual Environment 3.4 A description of the applications and limitations of the
E1663 Classification for the Serviceability of an Office AHP method concludes this practice.
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