That's honestly more a question for physicists and chemists. Biologists in my experience take a lot for granted because they don't really understand the fundamentals on small scales.
It should be fairly simple to take the original price of installing the components of the house and calculate depreciation.
Non-improved value = market value - depreciated home value
Obviously you'd have to keep tracking the improvements over time.
What a bunch of BS. Communism is not team play. It's slavery and tyranny. The US has more team play than most places because people are free to pick their teams.