Escala de gravedad de daños en edificios. De la asignación directa a la contrastación estadística = Scale of severity of damages in buildings. From the direct assignment to the statistical contrastation

The importance of performing preventive maintenance on buildings is clearly demonstrated, in order to prevent them from deterioration and severe damages. It is also demonstrated that preventive maintenance saves money versus corrective maintenance. In the framework of maintenance, to make periodic inspections of the buildings is useful to quantify the extent to which deteriorations are severe or not, in order to facilitate decision making and prioritize interventions. To this purpose many scales have been used and are used to assess the severity of damage and deterioration of the building components. But it appears evident that there is not common consensus and these scales are different between them, according to the study they belong to. Everything referred shows the need to propose and validate a scale that serves to assess the degree of severity of construction elements in buildings, which is widely used. Therefore, the objective of this article is to propose, based on a long and rigorous methodological process, a scale that serves to assess the degree of severity of damage in buildings, which can be widely used.