Collaborative design: a process model for refurbishment

Collaborative design related to refurbishment projects is a complex process. The number of parties involved compounds this complexity. So too the iterative nature of design whereby information flow and decision rules are typically nonlinear. Hypermedia is therefore suggested as an appropriate medium as well as a tool to model this process. By reviewing the refurbishment of mechanical and electrical (m and e) equipment within a shopping center, the appropriateness of a hypermedia paradigm is examined. In this way, primary information elements and relations between such elements are identified. These form the basis for the development of the hypermedia model described in this paper.