This research evaluates architectural projects of an industrial nature in Colombia, Spain and Portugal. These include rehabilitation, recovery, reuse and enhancement processes.The evaluation has been implemented through a design investigation of the works of architects, urban planners and engineers, from different historical and geographical contexts that show impact factors from the state of original use to their reuse and how, over time, they have evolved or not, by changing their use.The projects have been analyzed using the sustainability parameters reflected in the book "Versus Heritage for Tomorrow", which describes the different points that must be taken into account in sustainable architecture; and under the lens of various documents for the protection of industrial heritage, such as the National Plan for Industrial Heritage or the Docomomo.In addition, from the list of verbs by the American sculptor Richard Serra (1939-) "Actions on matter : 1967: -1968: " (Serra, 2011, the type of action involved in each study of the selected case has been identified. Another aspect important to analyze is that of the typology; for this reason, it is important to name the architect, Carlos Martí Arís, (Arís, 1993) who refers to the type as: "The meaning that a non-specialized language has, this is equivalent to the general or set of properties that are common to a certain number of individuals or objects". Type is synonymous with class, family, gender, that is, a category that results from applying a classifying procedure to a set of objects.Among others, these documents constitute the theoretical and methodological basis on which this doctoral thesis is based with the main objective of proposing a methodology for the analysis of industrial heritage in Colombia, based on the study of nine case studies in three different geographical contexts, with their respective characteristics.