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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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Social Science, Economics and Human Behavior |
| Subtitle of host publication | SEH 2014 |
| Publisher | Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors |
| Pages | 51-55 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-63248-003-3 |
| Publication status | Published - 8 Mar 2014 |
| Event | International Conference on Advances in Social Science, Economics and Human Behavior (SEH 2014) - Hotel G Tower, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Duration: 8 Mar 2014 → 9 Mar 2014 |
Conference
| Conference | International Conference on Advances in Social Science, Economics and Human Behavior (SEH 2014) |
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| Country/Territory | Malaysia |
| City | Kuala Lumpur |
| Period | 8/03/14 → 9/03/14 |
Research Keywords
- Barrier-free access
- building performance assessment
- disability inclusion
- universal design
