Approach for the selection of the priority actions

• Author: Carbonar, Giulia; Sterling, Raymond; Spirinckx, Carolin; Vandevelde, Birgit; De Groote, Maarten; Dourlens-Quaranta, Sophie; Lodigiani, Alessandro; Volt, Jonathan; Borragán, Guillermo; Glicker, Jessica; Kondratenko, Irena; Toth, Zsolt; Rajagopalan, Neethi; De Regel, Sofie; Rapf, Oliver; Calderoni, Marco; Loureiro, Tatiana
• Pages: 59-60

STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A EUROPEAN UNION FRAMEWORK FOR DIGITAL BUILDING LOGBOOKS

FINAL REPORT

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CHAPTER 4: APPROACH FOR THE SELECTION OF THE

PRIORITY ACTIONS

Introduction

Based on the gap analysis and the assessment of the actions that would foster a widespread

use and efficient functioning of digital building logbooks in Task 3 (previous chapter), three

priority actions have been selected as the main recommendations for the European

Commission to consider.

This selection was made in consultation with the EC, following a three-step approach (as

shown in Figure 19), taking into consideration criteria identified during the preliminary

phases of the project and stakeholders’ input:

Figure 19: Three-step approach for the selection of priority actions

Step 1 - Threshold criteria

The identification of actions is based on the stakeholder recommendations, their assumed

impact and potential to alleviate the bottlenecks (or gaps) impeding a successful deployment

of the digital building logbook schemes. The criteria have already been considered in the

previous gaps analysis and are, therefore, not included in these threshold criteria.

Only actions that meet the minimum threshold criteria were retained for the trade-off

analysis. Actions not meeting the following criter ia are therefore excluded from the next

steps:

• European Commission’s leverage capacity: the action should, to a large extent,

be developed, carried out and/or supported by the European Commission. This

criterion, therefore, excludes actions that require a strong role – such as leading– by

Member States, or private actors.

• Synergy potential: potential synergies with other EU or international initiatives,

given that the implementation potential and chances of success of the priority actions

depend on these synergies.

• Feasibility: the action should be technically and financially feasible for the European

Commission to carry out.

Step 2 - Trade-off with indicators based on success criteria

To prioritise the suggested long list of 15 actions as described in previous chapter and

detailed in Annex 1, the consortium c arried out a trade-off analysis for each action using

several weighted criteria. These criteria were selected taking into account:

• Stakeholder interviews and survey results, as included in Report 1 – Definition of the

Digital Building Logbook [1]

• Digital building logbook success factors, as discussed in Report 2 – Building Logbook

State of Play [2].

This resulted in the selection and weighting of the following criteria to evaluate the priority

actions (in order of weighted importance).

Threshold criteria

Trade-off with

indicators based on

success criteria

Balanced selection