Abstract
With rights to access becoming basic human rights, a tool for building disability inclusiveness assessment is necessary to tell how far we have gone to include people with disabilities in buildings. This article proposes a Building Inclusiveness Assessment Score (BIAS) framework which is made up of two hierarchies of inclusion attributes, namely the Physical Disability Inclusion Sub-score (PDIS) and the Visual Impairment Inclusion Sub-score (VIIS). The tool allows simple, quantitative and more objective assessments of buildings. Using the tool, forty-eight university buildings from four universities in Hong Kong were assessed for illustrating its real-life application.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 114-118 |
Journal | International Journal of Business and Management Study |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 25 Jun 2014 |
Research Keywords
- Barrier-free access
- building performance assessment
- disability inclusion
- universal design