ABSTRACT
Understanding worker requirements of their workplace environments and equipment through the life course is important when encouraging people to remain fit and healthy when ageing. sites can be particularly challenging due to how the environment constantly changes. The New Dynamics of Ageing “Working Late: ageing productively through design” project aims to investigate and capture the user requirements to maintain and improve health and fitness whist working later into life through employing user-centred design methods (Williams, E.Y., Gyi, D.E., Gibb, A.G.F. & Haslam, R., in press). Results from a questionnaire survey and observations, performed with joiners at a construction company will be presented in this paper. The aim was to understand experiences with current designs (positive and negative) and to capture specific user-led design requirements.
