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Article: Assessing the Disability Inclusiveness of University Buildings in Hong Kong

TitleAssessing the Disability Inclusiveness of University Buildings in Hong Kong
Authors
KeywordsBuilding performance assessment
Disability inclusion
Facility management
Nonstructural fuzzy decision support system
Universal design
Issue Date2016
Citation
International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 2016, v. 20 n. 2, p. 184-197 How to Cite?
AbstractTended 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.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/220210
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2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.392
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dc.contributor.authorLAU, WK-
dc.contributor.authorHo, DCW-
dc.contributor.authorYau, Y-
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-16T06:32:45Z-
dc.date.available2015-10-16T06:32:45Z-
dc.date.issued2016-
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Strategic Property Management, 2016, v. 20 n. 2, p. 184-197-
dc.identifier.issn1648-715X-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/220210-
dc.description.abstractTended 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.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Strategic Property Management-
dc.subjectBuilding performance assessment-
dc.subjectDisability inclusion-
dc.subjectFacility management-
dc.subjectNonstructural fuzzy decision support system-
dc.subjectUniversal design-
dc.titleAssessing the Disability Inclusiveness of University Buildings in Hong Kong-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailHo, DCW: danielho@hku.hk-
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dc.identifier.doi10.3846/1648715X.2015.1107653-
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dc.identifier.hkuros256082-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000377893400006-
dc.identifier.issnl1648-715X-

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