Good Practice Guidance for Refurbishing Occupied Buildings

This good practice guidance has been written for everyone involved in refurbishing occupied buildings, including clients, occupants, designers, builders and all who perform a role in projects of this type.

This good practice guidance has been written for everyone involved in refurbishing occupied buildings, including clients, occupants, designers, builders and all who perform a role in projects of this type.

Based on the experience of refurbishing many occupied buildings, these good practice principles should help to ensure an efficient refurbishment that causes minimum disruption to business continuity.

Here, "business continuity" means the ongoing activities of any organisation occupying a building under refurbishment.

They apply equally to public-sector institutions such as schools and hospitals, and to commercial companies.

The guide focuses on the special issues that may be met with, from health and safety considerations and the need to avoid noise and pollution, to the effective separation of building work from the activities of the building's normal occupants.

Project planning, scheduling, communication and security issues are among the other topics covered. This well-illustrated, accessible guide includes numerous case studies and provides answers to some of the frequently asked questions that arise during the refurbishment of occupied buildings.