Building and Facility

We are still working on Strategies and Success Measures. We have been working hard to simultaneously map the remainder of the user groups’ experiences with a new HASS shelter so we can understand the implications for physical facilities. We intend to start a blog, and are working on our first posts.

Building/Facility worked on Obstacles and have defined them. We are now continuing to work though the perspectives of different “users” to a HASS facility so we can analyze the facility needs from the needs of each group. This will help give us the framework for creation of a HASS facility.

The Building/Facilities Working Group has gathered photos and plans from many of the Tier 1 Shelters for analysis. This group has also been working on a dynamic brainstorm of the requirements for a prototype HASS physical shelter, using user experience mapping.

The Building/Facilities Working Group has been tackling our tasks with a three pronged approach:

• The “outreach” subgroup has developed a plan for interfacing with all the other working groups that are related to facilities and has delegated tasks for reaching out.
• The “survey/data” subgroup is working on 1) gathering data about how people are using their facilities differently and 2) gathering floor plans and photos of tier one shelters, for use in evaluation.
• The “brainstorm” subgroup is doing just that. Building the framework of a new animal shelter facility, based on the social model, and into which we can feed information learned from “outreach” and “survey/data” subgroups.