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Industrial Refurbishment and Urban Planning
Industrial master plans could be compared to city master plans in many details. Industrial facilities have flux of people and vehicles, infra structure for water, waste and energy in a large scale. Sometimes is necessary some urban changes, as new roads or ways to make the industrial logistic work well. The first architect in Brazil to use the term Industrial Master Plan was Beatriz Bechara in a refurbishment project for British America Tobaco, BAT, known as Souza Cruz in Brazil. In that time, 1993, that intervention was considered by the main office in United Kingdom as their best industrial refurbishment among all units in the world. In that case, before the intervention, was an industrial unity with more then 100 thousand square meters already built, in many stages and times,resulting in a complete lack of design union. An industrial space like this can certainly be compared as a small village and it´s needs are pratically the same. Treat industrial projects as urban master plans is not knew. Architects allways used similar parameters between urban and idustrial planning, but never had a conscient coparaison, before this example in the country.