PROPOSAL FOR THE ADAPTATION OF OPERATIONAL RELIABILITY TOOLS TO THE DIAGNOSIS OF BUILDINGS

Abstract

No building is exempt from suffering the gradual deterioration of its component materials, elements or systems, so they must be subjected to evaluations during their useful life, even in the residual life, in order to intervene to rescue the benefits that were defined in the design stage. The need to return to the building or bring it closer to its initial characteristics is given by the historical, functional, structural or architectural value of the property; therefore, the diagnosis cannot be improvised, for this reason there are methodologies to guide the evaluation team throughout the process, but the few tools that incorporate quantitative analysis in the evaluation without the ranking of their deteriorations or affected systems, led to the search in other fields of science and engineering. A group of Operational Reliability tools were selected for application in the construction sector in the evaluation of buildings, proposing the necessary adjustments and the mandatory validation through the Delphi Expert Method. The determination of the frequency of occurrence, impact and detection rates, as well as the Criticality Analysis, the Pareto Technique and the Impacts Method will be presented for confirmation as building evaluation tools.