User Experience and Heritage Preservation

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Title: User Experience and Heritage Preservation
Language: English
Authors: Orfield, Steven J., Chapman, J. Wesley, Davis, Nathan
Source: Planning for Higher Education. Apr-Jun 2011 39(3):201-208.
Availability: Society for College and University Planning. 339 East Liberty Street Suite 300, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Tel: 734-998-7832; Fax: 734-998-6532; e-mail: info@scup.org; Web site: http://www.scup.org/PHE
Peer Reviewed: Y
Physical Description: PDF
Page Count: 8
Publication Date: 2011
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, History, Preservation, Models, Decision Making Skills, Educational Facilities, Campuses, Evaluation Criteria, Standards, Cost Effectiveness, Influence of Technology, Time Perspective, Use Studies, Adoption (Ideas), Technology Uses in Education
ISSN: 0736-0983
Abstract: In considering the heritage preservation of higher education campus buildings, much of the attention gravitates toward issues of selection, cost, accuracy, and value, but the model for most preservation projects does not have a clear method of achieving the best solutions for meeting these targets. Instead, it simply relies on the design team and client team to intuitively arrive at a set of conclusions, and both may have a vested interest in either a new or preserved building. In order to gain the highest potential benefit from preservation, higher education institutions must have better protocols for determining their selection of buildings, levels of preservation, perceptual benchmarks, high-quality building performance standards, and reasoned approaches to sustainability. These authors contend that it is time that higher education institutions take a far more rigorous approach to these projects so that the results will be better-preserved buildings at a more reasonable cost and a better understanding of how new building projects can proceed with the same logic as that applied to heritage preservation. (Contains 1 figure.)
Abstractor: ERIC
Number of References: 8
Entry Date: 2011
Access URL: https://www.scup.org/page/SCUP_PHE
Accession Number: EJ943962
Database: ERIC
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