ASTM E2506-06e1
(Guide)Standard Guide for Developing a Cost-Effective Risk Mitigation Plan for New and Existing Constructed Facilities
Standard Guide for Developing a Cost-Effective Risk Mitigation Plan for New and Existing Constructed Facilities
SIGNIFICANCE AND USE
Standard practices for measuring the economic performance of investments in buildings and building systems have been published by ASTM. A computer program that produces economic measures consistent with these practices is available. The computer program is described in Appendix X3. Discount Factor Tables has been published by ASTM to facilitate computing measures of economic performance for most of the practices.
Investments in long-lived projects, such as the erection of new constructed facilities or additions and alterations to existing constructed facilities, are characterized by uncertainties regarding project life, operation and maintenance costs, revenues, and other factors that affect project economics. Since future values of these variable factors are generally unknown, it is difficult to make reliable economic evaluations.
The traditional approach to uncertainty in project investment analysis is to apply economic methods of project evaluation to best-guess estimates of project input variables, as if they were certain estimates, and then to present results in a single-value, deterministic fashion. When projects are evaluated without regard to uncertainty of inputs to the analysis, decision makers may have insufficient information to measure and evaluate the financial risk of investing in a project having a different outcome from what is expected.
To make reliable economic evaluations, treatment of uncertainty and risk is particularly important for projects affected by natural and man-made hazards that occur infrequently, but have significant consequences.
Following this guide when performing an economic evaluation assures the user that relevant economic information, including information regarding uncertain input variables, is considered for projects affected by natural and man-made hazards.
Use this guide in the project initiation and planning phases of the project delivery process. Consideration of alternative combinations of risk mitigation stra...
SCOPE
1.1 This guide describes a generic framework for developing a cost-effective risk mitigation plan for new and existing constructed facilities—buildings, industrial facilities, and other critical infrastructure. This guide provides owners and managers of constructed facilities, architects, engineers, constructors, other providers of professional services for constructed facilities, and researchers an approach for formulating and evaluating combinations of risk mitigation strategies.
1.2 This guide insures that the combinations of mitigation strategies are formulated so that they can be rigorously analyzed with economic tools. Economic tools include evaluation methods, standards that support and guide the application of those methods, and software for implementing the evaluation methods.
1.3 The generic framework described in this guide helps decision makers assess the likelihood that their facility and its contents will be damaged from natural and man-made hazards; identify engineering, management, and financial strategies for abating the risk of damages; and use standardized economic evaluation methods to select the most cost-effective combination of risk mitigation strategies to protect their facility.
1.4 The purpose of the risk mitigation plan is to provide the most cost-effective reduction in personal injuries, financial losses, and damages to new and existing constructed facilities. Thus, the risk mitigation plan incorporates perspectives from multiple stakeholders—owners and managers, occupants and users, and other affected parties—in addressing natural and man-made hazards.
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Designation:E2506–06
Standard Guide for
Developing a Cost-Effective Risk Mitigation Plan for New
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and Existing Constructed Facilities
This standard is issued under the fixed designation E2506; 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 (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
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´ NOTE—Section 2.2 was editorially corrected in January 2009.
INTRODUCTION
Protecting constructed facilities from damages from natural and man-made hazards in a cost-
effective manner is a challenging task. Several measures of economic performance are available for
evaluatingbuilding-relatedinvestments.Thesemeasuresinclude,butarenotlimitedto,life-cyclecost,
present value net savings, savings-to-investment ratio, and adjusted internal rate of return. This guide
provides a generic framework for assessing the risks associated with natural and man-made hazards,
formulating combinations of risk mitigation strategies for constructed facilities exposed to those
hazards, and using measures of economic performance to identify the most cost-effective combination
of strategies.
1. Scope Thus, the risk mitigation plan incorporates perspectives from
multiple stakeholders—owners and managers, occupants and
1.1 This guide describes a generic framework for develop-
users, and other affected parties—in addressing natural and
ing a cost-effective risk mitigation plan for new and existing
man-made hazards.
constructedfacilities—buildings,industrialfacilities,andother
critical infrastructure. This guide provides owners and manag-
2. Referenced Documents
ers of constructed facilities, architects, engineers, constructors,
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2.1 ASTM Standards:
other providers of professional services for constructed facili-
E631 Terminology of Building Constructions
ties, and researchers an approach for formulating and evaluat-
E833 Terminology of Building Economics
ing combinations of risk mitigation strategies.
E917 Practice for Measuring Life-Cycle Costs of Buildings
1.2 This guide insures that the combinations of mitigation
and Building Systems
strategies are formulated so that they can be rigorously
E964 Practice for Measuring Benefit-to-Cost and Savings-
analyzed with economic tools. Economic tools include evalu-
to-Investment Ratios for Buildings and Building Systems
ation methods, standards that support and guide the application
E1057 Practice for Measuring Internal Rate of Return and
of those methods, and software for implementing the evalua-
Adjusted Internal Rate of Return for Investments in Build-
tion methods.
ings and Building Systems
1.3 The generic framework described in this guide helps
E1074 PracticeforMeasuringNetBenefitsandNetSavings
decision makers assess the likelihood that their facility and its
for Investments in Buildings and Building Systems
contents will be damaged from natural and man-made hazards;
E1121 Practice for Measuring Payback for Investments in
identify engineering, management, and financial strategies for
Buildings and Building Systems
abating the risk of damages; and use standardized economic
E1185 Guide for Selecting Economic Methods for Evaluat-
evaluation methods to select the most cost-effective combina-
ing Investments in Buildings and Building Systems
tion of risk mitigation strategies to protect their facility.
E1369 Guide for Selecting Techniques for Treating Uncer-
1.4 The purpose of the risk mitigation plan is to provide the
tainty and Risk in the Economic Evaluation of Buildings
most cost-effective reduction in personal injuries, financial
and Building Systems
losses, and damages to new and existing constructed facilities.
E1557 Classification for Building Elements and Related
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This guide is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee E06 on Performance
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of Buildings and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee E06.81 on Building For referenced ASTM standards, visit the ASTM website, www.astm.org, or
Economics. contact ASTM Customer Service at service@astm.org. For Annual Book of ASTM
Current edition approved Sept. 15, 2006. Published September 2006. DOI: Standards volume information, refer to the standard’s Document Summary page on
10.1520/E2506-06E01. the ASTM website.
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E2506–06
Sitework—UNIFORMAT II Discount Factor Tables has been published byASTM to facili-
E1765 Practice for Applying Analytical Hierarchy Process tate computing measures of economic performance for most of
(AHP) to Multiattribute Decision Analysis of Investments the practices.
Related to Buildings and
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