Opportunities of the Multicriteria Methods in the Study of Immovable Assets of the Spanish Industrial Heritage

This paper continues the guidelines of previous works, and proposes a global methodology for the study of the Spanish Industrial Heritage. The first part of this methodology is focused in the identification, selection and classification of this kind of elements. There are different heritage typologies, and each one has a particular nature. Not the same aspects are important for the valuation of all them. The need to consider simultaneously different criteria with different level of importance makes reasonable to think in multicriteria methods as the AHP. The second part of the proposed global methodology studies the possibilities of multicriteria methods in the valuation of these assets and their possible future uses, with particular attention to the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Results obtained show that adapting these tools to the nature and objectives of the study these methods can be very useful.