Assessing the disability inclusiveness of university buildings in Hong Kong
Tended to view disability inclusion as merely another mandate, building and construction practitioners have yet to recognize its value in social sustainability. In academia, similarly, it has received less attention than other building performance attributes such as environmental friendliness and in...
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Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
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| description | Tended to view disability inclusion as merely another mandate, building and construction practitioners have yet to recognize its value in social sustainability. In academia, similarly, it has received less attention than other building performance attributes such as environmental friendliness and indoor air quality. With rights to access now acknowledged as basic human rights, there is demand for a tool to assess building disability inclusiveness, indicating the extent to which building considerations include persons with disabilities (PWDs). This paper proposes a Building Inclusiveness Assessment Score (BIAS) to fill the existing gap. The BIAS framework comprises two hierarchies of inclusion attributes identified from literature, guides, and standards of barrier-free access and universal design. The final product consists of two building disability inclusiveness assessment tools: the Physical Disability Inclusion Sub-score (PDIS) and the Visual Impairment Inclusion Sub-score (VIIS). These are simple, quantitative, objective tools for assessing buildings. We performed a Monte Carlo simulation to validate the assessment protocols. Following the validation, we assessed 48 university buildings at four universities in Hong Kong to illustrate the real-life application of the tools. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-95b3e10ecdf14a0daa9f4d7e23ccfbcc2022-12-21T20:18:53ZengVilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityInternational Journal of Strategic Property Management1648-715X1648-91792016-06-0120210.3846/1648715X.2015.1107653Assessing the disability inclusiveness of university buildings in Hong KongWai Kin Lau0Daniel Chi Wing Ho1Yung Yau2Department of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ChinaDepartment of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ChinaDepartment of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, ChinaTended to view disability inclusion as merely another mandate, building and construction practitioners have yet to recognize its value in social sustainability. In academia, similarly, it has received less attention than other building performance attributes such as environmental friendliness and indoor air quality. With rights to access now acknowledged as basic human rights, there is demand for a tool to assess building disability inclusiveness, indicating the extent to which building considerations include persons with disabilities (PWDs). This paper proposes a Building Inclusiveness Assessment Score (BIAS) to fill the existing gap. The BIAS framework comprises two hierarchies of inclusion attributes identified from literature, guides, and standards of barrier-free access and universal design. The final product consists of two building disability inclusiveness assessment tools: the Physical Disability Inclusion Sub-score (PDIS) and the Visual Impairment Inclusion Sub-score (VIIS). These are simple, quantitative, objective tools for assessing buildings. We performed a Monte Carlo simulation to validate the assessment protocols. Following the validation, we assessed 48 university buildings at four universities in Hong Kong to illustrate the real-life application of the tools.https://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/IJSPM/article/view/2081Building performance assessmentDisability inclusionFacility management,Nonstructural fuzzy decision support systemUniversal design |
| spellingShingle | Wai Kin Lau Daniel Chi Wing Ho Yung Yau Assessing the disability inclusiveness of university buildings in Hong Kong International Journal of Strategic Property Management Building performance assessment Disability inclusion Facility management, Nonstructural fuzzy decision support system Universal design |
| title | Assessing the disability inclusiveness of university buildings in Hong Kong |
| title_full | Assessing the disability inclusiveness of university buildings in Hong Kong |
| title_fullStr | Assessing the disability inclusiveness of university buildings in Hong Kong |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the disability inclusiveness of university buildings in Hong Kong |
| title_short | Assessing the disability inclusiveness of university buildings in Hong Kong |
| title_sort | assessing the disability inclusiveness of university buildings in hong kong |
| topic | Building performance assessment Disability inclusion Facility management, Nonstructural fuzzy decision support system Universal design |
| url | https://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/IJSPM/article/view/2081 |
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