HART Score
StructureCare uses a proprietary Health Assessment Rating Technique (HART) Score to give owners a clear, visual understanding of their parking structure's condition, helping prioritize maintenance, repairs, and long-term capital planning.
What is a HART Score?
A HART (Health Assessment Rating Technique) Score is StructureCare's proprietary rating system for evaluating parking structure health. Developed by engineers with decades of experience assessing parking facilities, HART Scores provide a standardized, easy-to-understand assessment of overall parking structure health.
Unlike traditional inspection reports that can be difficult for non-technical stakeholders to interpret, HART Scores translate key condition metrics into a simple condition score and category. This helps owners quickly understand current conditions, identify potential risks, and prioritize maintenance, repair, and capital planning efforts.
Whether you're evaluating a recently acquired asset, planning future capital expenditures, or establishing a long-term maintenance program, HART Scores provide a consistent framework for informed decision making.
How HART Scores work
HART Scores reflect the status of various conditions throughout the garage.
Parking structures receive a HART Score based on a comprehensive assessment of observed conditions, risk factors, maintenance needs, and functional performance. Each HART Score represents a unique combination of conditions that helps owners understand the overall health of their parking structure.
Why all parking structure owners should use HART Scores
1. Know where you stand
A HART Score creates a consistent benchmark for understanding current structure health.
2. Make informed decisions
Use your structure’s overall condition to help prioritize repairs, maintenance, and investments across your portfolio.
3. Simplify communication
Provide executives, facility teams, asset managers, and board members with clear, easy-to-understand condition ratings and improvement goals.
4. Reduce surprises
Track deterioration over time and proactively address issues before they become major capital expenses.
5. Support long-term planning
Use HART Scores as a foundation for maintenance strategies, repair programs, and capital reserve planning.
A HART Score helps clients evaluate overall structure health, estimate remaining service life, assess maintenance program effectiveness, prioritize repair needs, understand potential risk exposure, and determine appropriate levels of engineering intervention.
How we use HART Scores
HART Scores are incorporated into our reports, giving owners an immediate snapshot of parking structure health.
For example, a structure with a lower HART Score may remain serviceable but exhibit widespread deterioration, deferred maintenance, or developing repair needs that should be addressed through a prioritized repair strategy.
HART Scores help owners establish maintenance and repair priorities, evaluate lifecycle costs, reduce risk exposure, and address potential safety concerns before conditions worsen. By communicating parking structure health in a standardized format, HART Scores enable owners to compare facilities, track deterioration trends, and make more confident capital planning decisions.
Who benefits from HART Scores?
HART Scores help anyone responsible for parking structures evaluate current conditions, prioritize repairs, manage risk, and plan future investments. Common users include healthcare systems, colleges and universities, municipal parking authorities, commercial property owners, retail and hospitality facilities, real estate investment groups, and facilities management teams.
Get your parking structure's HART Score
Get a clear, objective picture of your parking structure’s condition with StructureCare's proprietary HART Score system. Contact us to schedule an inspection of your parking structure and one of our experts will follow up to review your needs.