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Partial damage to components. Say, a 400kT Space Yard can build with 400 resources of each type per turn (just as an example). A weapon hits with an impact force of 100. The Space Yard is still mostly intact, but it has received 100 points of damage and thus is less efficient - it constructs with 300 resources per turn. Then, it receives a hit from a weapon with 50 damage. This time though, since it's already damaged, the efficiency reduction will be more drastic - it can now only construct with 200 per turn.
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A better way to implement this would be to have "stackable" spaceyard components. Jusst as having 6x10kt engines on a ship rather than one big 60kt engine allows you to lose some (but not all) of your propulasion in combat, having 8x50kt spaceyard components (each one supplying one eight of the build rate) instead of a single 400kt component would allow you to lose some (but not all) of your construction ability.
What I'd like to see (and I've said it before) is to have the ability to use warp points brought out of hard-code and put into a component/ hull ability. This means we could mod interstellar fighters, warp-incapable system defence ships, and also allow 'uplifting' of neutrals and primitives who lack the technology to escape their own system.