Integrated production applied to building rehabilitation in the São Paulo historic center

The particularities of building rehabilitation projects evidence the limitations of conventional production management approaches. The aim of this work is to analyze the process of building rehabilitation from an integrated production view. The approach is based on collaborative work and early participation of all agents to improve efficiency of the process and quality of the building. Interviews were conducted with two professionals that work with rehabilitation and also the assessment of the production process of a rehabilitated building in São Paulo, Brazil. It is argued that the adoption of measures aimed at eliminating the linearity of production phases optimizes the process, especially in cases of rehabilitation, due to their particularities in relation to new projects.