The relative equations and descriptions for KPIs
| Level | KPI | Formula | Data source | Assumption/Limitation | Reference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Material | E′ (CO2 emissions) | C’: the CO2 of the case study Cmax: maximum CO2 possible within the material category | C: EPD Cmax: EC3 tool | – | Mesa et al. (2020) | ||
| EN (energy renewability) | EPD | – | WBCSD (2023) | ||||
| W (water circularity) | Where | EPD | – | WBCSD (2023) | |||
| Mcl (additional material required during construction) | Øl: wastage percentage factor for material | One Click LCA | – | Khadim et al. (2023) | |||
| WO (Unrecoverable Waste) | Cr: fractions of material collected for recycling Cu: fractions of material collected for reuse Cb: fractions of material collected for bio decomposition Ce: fractions of material collected for sustained production of biological material for energy recovery | EPD | Composting applies only to non-toxic biological materials that meet compostable standard | Ellen MacArthur and Granta (2019) | |||
| WC (recycling waste) | EC: efficiency of the recycling process | Literature (Krausmann et al., 2017) | – | Ellen MacArthur and Granta (2019) | |||
| Wmn (manufacturing loss) | Where Cfp and Ccp: fractions of material losses that are recovered as useful recycled material Efp: efficiency of feedstock production Ecp: efficiency of component production | Literature (Bracquené et al., 2020) | – | Bracquené et al. (2020) | |||
| Wms (material separation loss) | Ems: efficiency of the material separation | Literature (Bracquené et al., 2020) | – | Bracquené et al. (2020) | |||
| Component | CD (Disassembly) | (A full list of DDFs and their corresponding fuzzy values will be provided based on request.) | Fuzzy values input by user | – | Durmisevic (2005) | ||
| System | DE (Deconstruction) | Fuzzy values input by user | – | O’Grady et al. (2021) | |||
| DEt Availability, dimensions, and types of tools required to deconstruct a building | No tool | 1 | |||||
| Hand tool | 0.9 | ||||||
| Power tool | 0.8 | ||||||
| Gas/pneumatic tool | 0.5 | ||||||
| Hydraulic equipment | 0.2 | ||||||
| DEm People or equipment required to move components following deconstruction | One person: <20 kg | 1 | |||||
| Two people: <42 kg | 0.9 | ||||||
| Hand trolley: <50 kg | 0.7 | ||||||
| Forklift: <2,000 kg | 0.4 | ||||||
| Crane: >2,000 kg | 0.1 | ||||||
| Re (Resilience) | Rei: resilience of component i mi: component i weight | Reusable indefinitely | 1 | – | O’Grady et al. (2021) | ||
| Reusable up to three times | 0.9 | ||||||
| Reusable only once | 0.7 | ||||||
| Recyclable | 0.6 | ||||||
| Downcyclable | 0.2 | ||||||
| Disposable | 0 | ||||||
| T (Transportability) | mi: component i weight | One-lane road and railway combined | 1 | – | Coenen et al. (2021) | ||
| One-lane road only | 0.8 | ||||||
| Railway only | 0.4 | ||||||
| Barge along river | 0.4 | ||||||
| No available infrastructure | 0 | ||||||
| N (Standardization) | Proportion of standardized components, N, with respect to the total number of components (C) | Input by user | – | Mesa and González-Quiroga (2023) | |||
| C (Commonality) | The proportion of components that are common within the product family, COM, concerning the total number of components (C) | Input by user | – | Mesa and González-Quiroga (2023) | |||
| TB (Take-back systems) | There is a take-back system for … | – | Struck and Flamme (2023) | ||||
| … the entire component, which reuses the component (if necessary, after reprocessing) | 1 | ||||||
| … the entire component, which reuses or recycles all parts of the component | 0.8 | ||||||
| … parts of the component, which reuses these parts (if necessary, after reprocessing) | 0.6 | ||||||
| … parts of the component, which (after reprocessing, if necessary) will be recycled | 0.4 | ||||||
| … construction waste generated during the construction of the component (pre-consumer), which is sent for recycling (if necessary, after reprocessing) | 0.2 | ||||||
| None of the above descriptions applies | 0 | ||||||
| RP (Repairability) | RFI: a subcomponent’s significance within a component assembly Ro: component's structure-five key parameters (P1 to P5) (A detailed explanation of each parameter will be provided based on request.) | Fuzzy values input by user | – | Ruiz-Pastor and Mesa (2023) | |||
| D (Durability) | Geometric Durability (DG) Material Durability (DM) (Scores and details for these parameters will be provided based on request.) | Fuzzy values input by user CES Selector database of GrantaDesign | – | Akanbi et al. (2019a), Mesa and González-Quiroga (2023) | |||
| Building | LKI (Level of Importance) | Site | 0.1 | – | Khadim et al. (2023) | ||
| Structure | 0.2 | ||||||
| Skin | 0.7 | ||||||
| Services | 0.8 | ||||||
| Space Plan | 0.9 | ||||||
| BFS (Adaptability/Flexibility) | Flexibility Class | FLEX 4.0 score | BCP score | BFS | – | Geraedts (2016) | |
| 1: Not flexible at all | 12–48 | 9–14 | 0.2 | ||||
| 2: Hardly flexible | 49–85 | 15–20 | 0.7 | ||||
| 3: Limited flexible | 86–122 | 21–26 | 0.8 | ||||
| 4: Very flexible | 123–159 | 27–32 | 0.9 | ||||
| 5: Excellent flexible | 160–192 | 33–36 | 1 | ||||
| (Sub-indicators and details will be provided based on request.) | |||||||
| RFU (Refuse unnecessary construction) | Reused Portion of System: amount (volume, area, mass) of the building system that is reused from the existing structure Total System Volume, Area, Mass: total size of the system being evaluated | Drawings | – | Arup and Ellen Macarthur (2022), Ellen MacArthur and Granta (2019) | |||
| SQ (Site Quality) |
| Drawings | – | Fagone et al. (2023) | |||
| M (Modularity) | Proportion of components considered as a module, M, with respect to the total number of components (C) | Input by user | – | Mesa and González-Quiroga (2023) | |||
| S (Simplicity) | Measurement of the product complexity based on the number of components (C) and number of pieces (N) | Input by user | – | Mesa and González-Quiroga (2023) | |||
| FB (Prefabricated assemblies) | Proportion of prefabricated assemblies, Nfb, with respect to the total number of components (C) | Input by user | – | Mesa and González-Quiroga (2023) | |||
| Level | KPI | Formula | Data source | Assumption/Limitation | Reference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Material | E′ (CO2 emissions) | C: EPD | – | ||||
| EN (energy renewability) | EPD | – | |||||
| W (water circularity) | EPD | – | |||||
| Mcl (additional material required during construction) | One Click LCA | – | |||||
| WO (Unrecoverable Waste) | EPD | Composting applies only to non-toxic biological materials that meet compostable standard | |||||
| WC (recycling waste) | Literature ( | – | |||||
| Wmn (manufacturing loss) | Literature ( | – | |||||
| Wms (material separation loss) | Literature ( | – | |||||
| Component | CD (Disassembly) | Fuzzy values input by user | – | ||||
| System | DE (Deconstruction) | Fuzzy values input by user | – | ||||
| DEt | No tool | 1 | |||||
| Hand tool | 0.9 | ||||||
| Power tool | 0.8 | ||||||
| Gas/pneumatic tool | 0.5 | ||||||
| Hydraulic equipment | 0.2 | ||||||
| DEm | One person: <20 kg | 1 | |||||
| Two people: <42 kg | 0.9 | ||||||
| Hand trolley: <50 kg | 0.7 | ||||||
| Forklift: <2,000 kg | 0.4 | ||||||
| Crane: >2,000 kg | 0.1 | ||||||
| Re (Resilience) | Reusable indefinitely | 1 | – | ||||
| Reusable up to three times | 0.9 | ||||||
| Reusable only once | 0.7 | ||||||
| Recyclable | 0.6 | ||||||
| Downcyclable | 0.2 | ||||||
| Disposable | 0 | ||||||
| T (Transportability) | One-lane road and railway combined | 1 | – | ||||
| One-lane road only | 0.8 | ||||||
| Railway only | 0.4 | ||||||
| Barge along river | 0.4 | ||||||
| No available infrastructure | 0 | ||||||
| Input by user | – | ||||||
| C (Commonality) | Input by user | – | |||||
| TB (Take-back systems) | – | ||||||
| … the entire component, which reuses the component (if necessary, after reprocessing) | 1 | ||||||
| … the entire component, which reuses or recycles all parts of the component | 0.8 | ||||||
| … parts of the component, which reuses these parts (if necessary, after reprocessing) | 0.6 | ||||||
| … parts of the component, which (after reprocessing, if necessary) will be recycled | 0.4 | ||||||
| … construction waste generated during the construction of the component (pre-consumer), which is sent for recycling (if necessary, after reprocessing) | 0.2 | ||||||
| None of the above descriptions applies | 0 | ||||||
| RP (Repairability) | Fuzzy values input by user | – | |||||
| D (Durability) | Fuzzy values input by user | – | |||||
| Building | LKI (Level of Importance) | Site | 0.1 | – | |||
| Structure | 0.2 | ||||||
| Skin | 0.7 | ||||||
| Services | 0.8 | ||||||
| Space Plan | 0.9 | ||||||
| BFS (Adaptability/Flexibility) | – | ||||||
| 1: Not flexible at all | 12–48 | 9–14 | 0.2 | ||||
| 2: Hardly flexible | 49–85 | 15–20 | 0.7 | ||||
| 3: Limited flexible | 86–122 | 21–26 | 0.8 | ||||
| 4: Very flexible | 123–159 | 27–32 | 0.9 | ||||
| 5: Excellent flexible | 160–192 | 33–36 | 1 | ||||
| (Sub-indicators and details will be provided based on request.) | |||||||
| RFU (Refuse unnecessary construction) | Drawings | – | |||||
| SQ (Site Quality) | A is the total site area Bi is the area in its natural state Bii is the area previously used as green or agricultural land Biii is the area previously developed with structures or infrastructure Biv is the area where remediation has been conducted or is planned | Drawings | – | ||||
| M (Modularity) | Input by user | – | |||||
| S (Simplicity) | Input by user | – | |||||
| FB (Prefabricated assemblies) | Input by user | – | |||||
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