Overall evaluation

The outcome of ProFitS therefore can be aggregated and expressed as one index where required. All original data and all the individual evaluation steps, however, can be traced back.

In addition to quantitative assessment, the ProFitS evaluation framework routinely asks which measures can be taken to improve an indicator or state that has been rated poorly.

ProFitS conducts an overall evaluation of impacts in the three dimensions of economy, ecology and society, and places this in relation to product benefits. This process builds upon the (sub-)assessment tools EcoGrade, Life-Cyle Costing, SocioGrade and BeneGrade described elsewhere in this manual.

• Costs (life-cycle cost),
• EcoGrade, the environmental assessment framework,
• SocioGrade, the social-societal assessment framework.

The ProFitS Excel tool can be used where required to perform the overall evaluation in quantitative terms. This involves taking for each dimension or each (sub-)assessment tool the average value (between 1 = very good and 10 = very poor) and aggregating these, with a 1:1:1 weighting. If required, the result can then be compared against the assessment of benefit provided by BeneGrade.

Presentation of the results

The overall evaluation covering the three dimensions is presented graphically by means of a bar chart or a spider chart