ASTM E1765-07e1

ASTM E1765-07e1 - 1.4.2007

Significance and Use

The AHP method allows you to generate a single measure of desirability for project alternatives with respect to multiple attributes (qualitative and quantitative). By contrast, life-cycle cost (Practice E 917), net savings (Practice E 1074), savings-to-investment ratio (Practice E 964), internal rate-of-return (Practice E 1057), and payback (Practice E 1121) methods all require you to put a monetary value on benefits and costs in order to include them in a measure of project worth.

Use AHP to evaluate a finite and generally small set of discrete and predetermined options or alternatives. Specific AHP applications are ranking and choosing among alternatives. For example, rank alternative building locations with AHP to see how they measure up to one another, or use AHP to choose among building materials to see which is best for your application.

Use AHP if no single alternative exhibits the most preferred available value or performance for all attributes. This is often the result of an underlying trade-off relationship among attributes. An example is the trade-off between low desired energy costs and large glass window areas (which may raise heating and cooling costs while lowering lighting costs).

Use AHP to evaluate alternatives whose attributes are not all measurable in the same units. Also use AHP when performance relative to some or all of the attributes is impractical, impossible, or too costly to measure. For example, while life-cycle costs are directly measured in monetary units, the number and size of offices are measured in other units, and the public image of a building may not be practically measurable in any unit. To help you choose among candidate buildings with these diverse attributes, use AHP to evaluate your alternatives.

Potential users of AHP include architects, developers, owners, or lessors of buildings, real estate professionals (commercial and residential), facility managers, building material manufacturers, and agencies managing building portfolios.

1. 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.

2. Referenced Documents

E1700-16	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Structure and Building Envelope
E1701-95(2018)	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Manageability
E2114-23	Standard Terminology for Sustainability
E2320-19	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Thermal Environment and Indoor Air Conditions
E2432-23	Standard Guide for General Principles of Sustainability Relative to the Built Environment
E631-15	Standard Terminology of Building Constructions
E833-14(2021)	Standard Terminology of Building Economics
E917-17(2023)	Standard Practice for Measuring Life-Cycle Costs of Buildings and Building Systems
E964-15(2020)e1	Standard Practice for Measuring Benefit-to-Cost and Savings-to-Investment Ratios for Buildings and Building Systems (Includes all amendments and changes 5/6/2020).
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 (Includes all amendments and changes 5/6/2020).
E1694-22	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Special Facilities and Technologies
E1693-95(2018)	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Protection of Occupant Assets
E1692-95a(2018)	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Change and Churn by Occupants (Includes all amendments and changes 2/5/2020).
E1679-13(2019)	Standard Practice for Setting the Requirements for the Serviceability of a Building or Building-Related Facility, and for Determining What Serviceability is Provided or Proposed
E1671-95a(2018)	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Cleanliness (Includes all amendments and changes 2/5/2020).
E1670-95a(2018)	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Management of Operations and Maintenance (Includes all amendments and changes 2/5/2020).
E1669-95a(2018)	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Location, Access and Wayfinding (Includes all amendments and changes 2/5/2020).
E1668-95a(2018)	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Amenities to Attract and Retain Staff (Includes all amendments and changes 2/5/2020).
E1667-95a(2018)	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Image to the Public and Occupants (Includes all amendments and changes 2/5/2020).
E1666-95a(2018)	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Work Outside Normal Hours or Conditions (Includes all amendments and changes 2/5/2020).
E1665-95a(2018)	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Facility Protection (Includes all amendments and changes 2/5/2020).
E1664-19	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Layout and Building Factors
E1663-22	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Typical Office Information Technology
E1662-95a(2018)	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Sound and Visual Environment (Includes all amendments and changes 2/4/2020).
E1661-95a(2018)	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Meetings and Group Effectiveness (Includes all amendments and changes 2/4/2020).
E1660-95a(2018)	Standard Classification for Serviceability of an Office Facility for Support for Office Work (Includes all amendments and changes 2/4/2020).
E1557-09(2020)e1	Standard Classification for Building Elements and Related Sitework´UNIFORMAT II (Includes all amendments and changes 5/6/2020).
E1480-92(2022)	Standard Terminology of Facility Management (Building-Related)
E1074-15(2020)e1	Standard Practice for Measuring Net Benefits and Net Savings for Investments in Buildings and Building Systems (Includes all amendments and changes 5/6/2020).
E1121-15(2020)e1	Standard Practice for Measuring Payback for Investments in Buildings and Building Systems (Includes all amendments and changes 5/6/2020).