PLM and architectural rehabilitation: a framework to improve collaboration in the early stages of design. (1st January 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Segonds, Frédéric; Nelson, Julien; Aoussat, Améziane
• Is Part Of: International journal of product lifecycle management. Volume 6:Number 1(2012)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 19
• Publication Date: 2012-01-01
• Subjects: product lifecycle management -- PLM -- building rehabilitation -- accessibility -- disabled users; Product life cycle -- Periodicals; 658.56
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-5110

Abstract

Recent evolutions in French law regarding accessibility of public buildings have prompted a need for methods and tools to rehabilitate such structures in order to make them accessible to disabled users. Architectural rehabilitation is an exceedingly complex design process, in particular, because of a legal framework which strongly impacts on the structure of collaboration, and of the need to take into account the characteristics of existing buildings. In this paper, we describe a participatory design methodology applied in the rehabilitation of a School of Engineering in France in order to improve its accessibility, and describe the basic functionalities of a software tool to assist collaborative engineering in architectural redesign projects.