We design high-performance spaces to optimise activities and organisations.
We design high-performance spaces to optimise activities and organisations.
Human design Group offers benchmark solutions for the design and ergonomics of professional spaces.
Over the last 20 years, Human design Group has acquired solid and recognised experience in the specification of control room layout and ergonomics, in sectors such as transport, nuclear and aerospace.
Thanks to the expertise of our teams (in ergonomics, architecture, design, acoustics, heating and lighting), we support our customers at every stage of their project to define the layout and ergonomics of their control room.
We are involved from the earliest stages of the development programme through to the drafting of the Dossier de Consultation des Entreprises (DCE). We can also provide assistance with monitoring the construction work (ACT, VISA, DET, AOR, DOE).
Thinking in terms of performance, risk management and quality of experience (UX design), control rooms and supervision areas are currently at the heart of upheavals that are redefining design issues.
Control room conversions
These spaces are at the crossroads of architectural, organisational and informational innovations, from the reinvention of certain professions to the development of new skills and new interactions via new technologies (Artificial Intelligence in particular).
Tertiary spaces are being invested with new challenges, increasingly in line with the transformations of the organisations themselves. Beyond the formal coherence of a territory or a brand experience, it is an organisation that manifests itself and expresses itself to an ever-growing variety of audiences. Through its responsibility to its employees and the challenges it faces in terms of its image in the eyes of its customers and partners, it is now the social impact of the organisation itself that is becoming a source of inspiration for spatial design.
Today's industrial spaces are being completely rethought and remodelled. The traditional challenges of workplace design are being met by new issues linked to the image of professions that are constantly changing, that need to be promoted and that are seeking to develop their appeal.
While performance and risk anticipation and management are fundamental issues, the design of human activity itself brings its own share of innovation, from Manufacturing 4.0 to the design of today's most advanced industrial production lines.
To meet our customers' challenges, we deploy a participative and iterative design approach, in the form of working groups. Involving the various stakeholders in the project (operator, project owner, project manager, CHSCT, etc.) ensures that the project will converge towards a unanimously shared development solution.
To ensure that our control room ergonomics solutions meet our customers' operational needs and technical requirements, we use intermediate media such as plans, photorealistic 3D CAD, scale 1 models, 3D printing and virtual reality.
Defining the ergonomics of the control room for the Flamanville EPR in 2006 was a major flagship project for both the Human Design Group and EDF. The user-centred design approach involved around forty operators (from the N4 level), both during the working groups held to define the ergonomics of the control room and during the testing phases in operational situations recreated on a scale 1 mock-up.
EDF has renewed its confidence in us for the modernisation of the control rooms of the 1300 MW nuclear power plants (in 2010, 3e ten-yearly visit) and the N4 stage (in 2012).
The studies carried out by Human Design Group led to the creation of innovative, functional and aesthetically pleasing control rooms. They also enabled EDF to justify to the Safety Authority that it had taken proper account of human factors and complied with the ergonomic standards in force for control rooms.
Since 2013, the RATP (formerly Bertin Ergonomie) has entrusted us with specifying the ergonomics of these control rooms or Central Command Posts (CCPs). In this way, the RATP is relying on the expertise of the Human Design Group to meet the new challenges brought about by the major projects to extend and automate the Paris metro lines initiated in recent years. Understanding the operational needs of future professions, ensuring a high level of performance and reliability for regulators, and finding a solution in terms of the layout and organisation of workgroups are all challenges that our teams take up on a daily basis.
