Assessment of health and comfort criteria in a life cycle social context: Application to buildings for higher education

For some of the sub-criteria, there are recommendations, stablished in standards or technical codes, which were followed to define this methodology at baseline level. The Analytical hierarchic process (AHP) was used to overcome the lack of reference values for the assessment of the remaining sub-criteria. Within each assessment level, a multi-criteria approach was required to reach a score. The list of weights to be used requires an expert sensibility. A comprehensive survey based on an AHP method was used as reference at the top-level evaluation, to obtain the weighting scheme to rate social performance.