2007 年 72 巻 620 号 p. 49-55
A rapid aging is advanced in Japan, so that it is one of the most important problems to make public buildings barrier-free and universal design specifications. Under such a situation, environmental equipment is advanced to the newly-built building by the law such as "Heart Building Law (commonly called)". However, the method of maintaining an existing building is not understood yet well. Then, existing public buildings are researched in this study. The problem that happens for the wheelchairusers and the visually handicapped persons, etc. when they use the building is extracted, and arranged. And, the method of improving them and the easiness of the improvement to do are considered.