Assessing the disability inclusiveness of university buildings

Wai Kin Lau, Daniel Chi Wing Ho, Yung Yau

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    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 languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)114-118
    JournalInternational Journal of Business and Management Study
    Volume1
    Issue number2
    Publication statusPublished - 25 Jun 2014

    Research Keywords

    • Barrier-free access
    • building performance assessment
    • disability inclusion
    • universal design

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