En studie om funktionsbyte och tillgänglighetsanpassning för personer med nedsatt rörelseförmåga på Göta hovrätts domstolsbyggnad från 1650 : Från ett förvaltningsperspektiv

Sammanfattning: Purpose: Several cultural-historical buildings are chosen to be teared down instead of researching the opportunities of maintaining the cultural-historical buildings due to the difficulties of with accessibility adaption in cultural-historical buildings. The lack of antiquarian expertise can be related to the lack of taught antiquarian knowledge in the higher education level regarding construction and architectural engineering.  Furter more enlightening the importance of utilizing the existing buildings and the need of antiquarian expertise of building conservation to create knowledge and possibilities to conduct the existing buildings. Analyzing the question formulations that administrators are challenged with regarding reconstruction and change of buildings that can occur in cultural-historical buildings.  Method: Strategy for data collection has been done with qualitative methods, such as research interviews, literature studies and observation. The Göta Court of Appeal ́s court building has been chosen as a case study due to the building ́s historical starting point, as one of the oldest states listed buildings in Sweden. e  Findings: Question formulations showed that administration, renovations and adaptions have a correlation to each other that has an important starting point in the education regarding higher education. The study shows the importance of teaching proper education are being issued at the university in order for new students to take on the challenges that awaits when they graduated. Challenges such as preserving the existing housing stock.  Implications: Completed study shows the need of overlooking the educations content and length of the construction and architectural engineering programs. Further research is needed to ensure that the university programs contain the right content to give better conditions to take care of the existing house stock. Reviewing the course’s content related to how the society develops and provide guidance regarding sustainability, economic, social and cultural values.  Limitations: The public agency National Property Board Sweden (SFV) are responsible for managing valuable cultural-historical properties, hence the research interviews with SFV are the most essential for this study due to their area of expertise. The study will not discuss rationalizing the energy efficiency in older buildings regarding indoor environment and heating. Neither will the study cover the fire precautions of the Courthouse.  Following areas are examined through an observation of the courthouse where accessibility measures are verified as easily remedied obstacles: entrance and external staircase, external and internal elevator, thresholds and ramp at the entrance.