The Access Manual: Designing, Auditing and Managing Inclusive Built Environments - Softcover

Sawyer, Ann; Bright, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118730747 ISBN 13: 9781118730744

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Synopsis

This manual covers the design, improvement, maintenance and management of accessible environments. It shows you how to provide and run buildings, services, and employment facilities to enable independent and convenient use by everyone.

The Access Manual was first published in November 2003 and has been used by architects and facilities managers needing to meet the requirements of new legislation in 2004. It was well received by design, management, access, and health professionals.

This is a fast-moving area and there are now several additional pieces of legislation and guidance central to inclusive design and making buildings accessible to all. This 3rd edition follows the same structure and approach and updates three main areas:

• The Equality Act 2010
• Building Regulations: Approved Documents to Parts M (2013) and K (2013)
• British Standards:  amendment and updating of BS8300

 

The authors have also updated the material on access auditing, providing additional examples and sample access audit reports and access statements.

With its comprehensive information on standards, legislation and good practice, The Access Manual: designing, auditing and managing inclusive built environments, 3rd edition ensures you can:

• be fully aware of the issues involved in accessibility and inclusive design
• understand your legal obligations and the guidance available 
• commission access audits
• create and manage an access improvement programme
• maintain accessibility in buildings and working practices
• understand access issues in the design of new buildings

About this title

About the Author

Ann Sawyer BA Dip. Arch. is an architect and access consultant. She works with architects, developers, building owners and facilities managers providing access consultancy services on new and existing buildings and environments. She advises on access and inclusive design, provides access appraisals and audits, advises on improvements to meet new legislative requirements and provides training in accessible design, auditing and the management of accessible environments. She has been involved in many prestigious new build and refurbishment projects for public and private sector clients and has advised on access to a wide variety of historic buildings. Ann is a member of the London Legacy Development Corporation Quality Review panel, the South East Regional Design Panel and is an Urban Design London design surgeon.

Keith Bright an independent registered access consultant, Director of Keith Bright Consultants Ltd and Emeritus Professor of Inclusive Environments at the University of Reading. He is a member of the Building Regulations Advisory Committee for England (BRAC), with a special interest inclusive design issues, and is a Design Advocate for the Design Commission for Wales.
Keith is a Consultant member of the National Register of Access Consultants (NRAC) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Inclusive Environment Consultants Scheme (IEC). He served as Chairman of the NRAC Management Board until March 2012.
Keith is a member of the Civic Trust Awards (CTA) National Judging Panel and Chairman of the judging panel for the joint Centre for Accessible Environments CAE/CTA Selwyn Goldsmith Award for Universal Design. He is also a member of several British Standard committees developing good practice guidance for the provision of inclusive environments.
His international roles include working as an advisor to the Building Construction Authority in Singapore and inclusive design training and development for leading organisations in Asia and Europe.
Keith has published widely in academic and practice journals and is the author and editor of several highly regarded reference books related to the development of inclusive environments. He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences on topics related to disability and equality legislation and the provision and management of inclusive, accessible environments.

Review

This is a well written and practical manual, recommended reading for building engineers concerned with the creation, planning and management of buildings. Building Engineer Incredibly informative . . . will enable you to keep the edge over non-enlightened competitors Architectural Technology This is an excellent book Access Journal Please make the most of what you find in this volume, but please dont use it merely to achieve compliance. Use it to spark creativity, humanity and urbanity in the buildings and public spaces we all use every day, so nobody need feel this place isnt for me and everyone feels welcome. Richard Simmonds, Chief Executive CABE I welcome this guidance which should enable people to understand access requirements and to undertake access audits The law is important but how much better if those organisations simply did it right in the first place so the law did not need to be used. This book should help do just that. Bert Massie, Chairman of Disability Right Commission Both authors are well known for their work on access between them they have produced a useful book that is helpful in the context of our current built environment and what steps can be taken to improve access.—Barrierfree

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1118730747
• ISBN 13: 9781118730744
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 288