ABSTRACT
Facility programming enables communication among the eventual occupants, the providers, and the managers of facilities. Programming can be defined as the process that elicits and systematically translates the mission and objectives of an organization, group, or individual person into activity-personnel-equipment relationships, thereby resulting in the functional program. As an emerging field of professional specialization, facility programming is still suspect to architecture and the design disciplines, although it clearly provides services that are complementary to the established design fields. Thus, architects trying to do a thorough job of analyzing user requirements and design parameters are likely to lose out financially. Rapid changes in technology, work processes, and rising expectations of the "consumers" of the built environment aggravate the problems created by an uprooted and fragmented society. One of the purposes of facility programming is to integrate, not segregate, human activities in space and time. It's aim is to tap the building occupants for information on building requirements.
