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ASTM E 2156 : 2004

Superseded

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Standard Guide for Evaluating Economic Performance of Alternative Designs, Systems, and Materials in Compliance with Performance Standard Guides for Single-Family Attached and Detached Dwellings

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Superseded date

11-11-2014

Language(s)

English

Published date

01-10-2004

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CONTAINED IN VOL. 04.12, 2015 Provides help for designers, builders, home owners, and other stakeholders to identify and evaluate benefits and costs in order to make efficient choices between two or more traditional alternatives and between traditional alternatives and new-technology products, systems, materials, and designs.

Committee
E 06
DocumentType
Guide
Pages
21
ProductNote
Reconfirmed 2004
PublisherName
American Society for Testing and Materials
Status
Superseded
SupersededBy
Supersedes

1.1 What This Guide DoesThis guide helps designers, builders, home owners, and other stakeholders to identify and evaluate benefits and costs in order to make efficient choices between two or more traditional alternatives and between traditional alternatives and new-technology products, systems, materials, and designs. It directs the users to ASTM classifications, practices, adjuncts, and computer programs that implement the appropriate economic method to evaluate these benefits and costs in making technology choices. The focus, however, is on a nine-step process for using two ASTM practices-life-cycle costing (LCC), E 917, and the analytical hierarchy process (AHP), E 1765-to measure and evaluate the economic and overall performance of investments in single-family attached and detached dwellings. This guide contains three appendixes. The first two are designed to help users identify and evaluate benefits and costs. contains a classification of benefits and a methodology for estimating these benefits. contains a classification of costs and a methodology for estimating these costs. illustrates how to evaluate the economic performance of three alternative carpet materials, two traditional products and a new-technology product, when considering the guide for durability.

1.2 Purpose of This GuideThe purpose of this guide is to help users make cost-effective choices between traditional alternatives and new technologies permitted under performance standards. This guide (1) explains how the lack of economic information discourages the introduction of new technologies; (2) helps decision makers to identify and classify the key types of benefits and costs associated with both new technologies and traditional alternatives; (3) shows how to select alternatives that meet the performance standards, but cost less than traditional alternatives; and (4) shows how to incorporate nonfinancial information into the decision-making process, enabling performance to be defined and using costs and other criteria.

1.3 Relationship of This Guide to Other Performance Standards GuidesIn this guide, economic analysis is used to evaluate and compare the economic performance of traditional alternatives and new technologies permitted under performance standards for single-family attached and detached dwellings. Use this economic analysis guide in evaluating alternatives permitted under any of the other 15 performance attributes, either singly or in combination. The objective of economic analysis in this guide is to identify cost-effective choices among traditional alternatives and new technologies permitted under performance standards. The other 15 performance attributes define the scope of the economic analysis. That is, cost-effectiveness derives from better economic value while providing comparable or better technical performance for each attribute's O-C-E-C performance statements. Consequently, to evaluate the economic performance of alternative residential designs, materials, products, components, subsystems, or systems permitted under performance standards, the user of this guide must first select one or more attributes, use the O-C-E-C framework to develop and present the corresponding performance statements, and identify the alternatives to be evaluated. , for example, evaluates carpeting with respect to the durability attribute and the economics attribute.

ASTM E 3035 : 2015 Standard Classification for Facility Asset Component Tracking System (FACTS)
ASTM E 2267 : 2004 : R2013 Standard Guide for Specifying and Evaluating Performance of Single Family Attached and Detached Dwellings—Indoor Air Quality (Withdrawn 2022)

ASTM E 631 : 2015 : REDLINE Standard Terminology of Building Constructions
ASTM E 833 : 2014 : REDLINE Standard Terminology of Building Economics
ASTM E 1369 : 2015 : REDLINE Standard Guide for Selecting Techniques for Treating Uncertainty and Risk in the Economic Evaluation of Buildings and Building Systems
ASTM E 1765 : 2016 : REDLINE Standard Practice for Applying Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to Multiattribute Decision Analysis of Investments Related to Projects, Products, and Processes
ASTM E 917 : 2015-10 PRACTICE FOR MEASURING LIFE-CYCLE COSTS OF BUILDINGS AND BUILDING SYSTEMS

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