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Wheelchair Housing Design Guide Habinteg Housing Association

Wheelchair Housing Design Guide By Habinteg Housing Association

Wheelchair Housing Design Guide by Habinteg Housing Association


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The Wheelchair Housing Design Guide explains how to design and detail a home that is fully manageable by wheelchair users and maximises their independence. This fully-updated, activity-based guide discusses design considerations, requirements and recommendations for various activities carried out within the home.

Wheelchair Housing Design Guide Summary

Wheelchair Housing Design Guide by Habinteg Housing Association

This guide provides all the information you need to design good quality, wheelchair accessible housing. Filled with practical advice, insightful design considerations and clear explanations, this book outlines how to meet the Building Regulations, Approved Document M Volume 1 M4(3): Wheelchair user dwellings. Detailed good practice recommendations and design features are also given for those looking to surpass the minimum standard. This comprehensive resource has been produced with expert contributions from the Centre for Accessible Environments and the Royal College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section Housing, along with input from a cross-section of experts including building control, architects, developers and other housing professionals.

  • Includes clear cross-references to AD M4(3)
  • Technical diagrams illustrating design details
  • Simple to follow guidance on best practice and technical provisions

About Habinteg Housing Association

Habinteg is a housing association with a unique vision. Founded in 1970 the organisation wants communities to include disabled people, offering places to live that meet their needs and provide the highest levels of independence, choice and control over daily life. Habinteg champions inclusion by providing accessible homes and neighbourhoods that welcome and include everyone and by using its expert knowledge to inspire and influence decision makers.

The Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE) pioneered the provision of access guidance for building designers nearly 50 years ago and remains a leading authority on inclusive design. Today, CAE is a technical division within Habinteg, where it continues to provide consultancy, training and publications on designing to meet the needs of disabled and older people wherever they choose to live, work or visit.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Strategic site development
2. Using outdoor spaces
3. External approach routes
4. Communal entrances, doors and circulation
5. Individual dwelling entrances and other external doors
6. Dwelling circulation and storage
7. Moving between levels within the dwelling
8. Using living spaces
9. Using the kitchen
10. Bedrooms
11. Bathrooms
12. Operating internal doors and windows
13. Services and controls

Additional information

NPB9781859468289
9781859468289
1859468284
Wheelchair Housing Design Guide by Habinteg Housing Association
New
Paperback
RIBA Publishing
2018-02-01
144
N/A
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