INFLUENCING CHANGE

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INFLUENCING CHANGE

• TOWARD
• INCLUSIVE DESIGN
• in
• RESIDENTIAL BUILDS
• in the
• UK and US

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• Diane Bright, OTR
• University of Salford
• Manchester, England, UK

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MSc Accessibility and Inclusive Designat the
University of Salford, UKwww.surface.salford.ac.
uk
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Why Salford University?

• Leading UK expertise in inclusive design
• The top rated research centre for the Built and
  Human Environment in the UK
• Has provided internet distance taught courses for
  over 12 years
• Awarded the Queens Anniversary Prize in 2001 for
  distance taught education

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Personal Connection to Specific Built Space

• HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
• HOME
• THERES NO PLACE LIKE HOME
• MI CASA
• A MANS HOME IS HIS CASTLE
• LA MAISON

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Limiting DesignsLimit Living/Visiting Options

• Steps
• Narrow Doorways
• Second Floor Bathroom Locations

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Exclusion by Design

• Mi Casa no es su casa
• My house can not be your house
• ARCHITECTURALLY DISABLED

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UK/USDISABILITY PERSPECTIVES

• Social Model of Disability
• Medical Model of Disability

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QUESTIONS RAISED

• What are the barriers to establishing
  a national ID standard in the US?
• Did the UK experience these barriers?
• How were barriers overcome?
• What has the UK learned over time with regard to
  application of Part M?
• What could the US learn from the UK experience

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What will most influence change?

• Legislation
• Advocacy groups
• Design professionals
• Builders
• Consumers

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UK LEGISLATION
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Part M

• Adopted into the UK building standard in 1999 to
  provide basic access for new home
  builds.including private home builds

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Part M Basic Requirements

• The approach to the house should be wide enough
  for wheelchair users, even with a parked car
• The approach should not be too steep, ideally it
  should be level
• An accessible threshold at entrance level should
  be provided
• Doorways and corridors should be wide enough to
  allow wheelchair users to maneuver into and out
  of rooms
• Communal stairs in blocks of flats should provide
  ease of access to ambulant disabled people
• A stepped change of level within an entrance
  storey should allow ease of access to ambulant
  disabled people
• Switches and sockets should be at a convenient
  height for all
• All homes should have an entrance level WC which
  is usable by a wheelchair user
• (JRF 2005)

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Lifetime Home Standards

• Expands on Part M.
• Instead of basic access to visit, construction
  includes features that increase usability of the
  home at the time of the build, and allow
• for easy modifications to the structure if the
  future needs of
• the homeowner dictate.

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Lifetime Home Features
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A Two Way Effort

• Advocacy supported by the Government
• Advocacy during the 1990s
• Government determination to regulate universal
  change for creating builds for all

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USLEGISLATION
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Leaders with ADALag with Home Access

• In the United States, the rights
• given to persons by the ADA to
• engage in the community, to work, go to school,
  worship, access government buildings, and even
  use the internet, do not extend into the housing
  market on a federal level, and is limited on
  state and local level.

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Visitability/HB1441

• An accessible route, or zero step, into the
  home
• 32 clearance doorways on the main level
• One bathroom on the main level of the home that
  can be accessed by wheelchair

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LOCAL SUPPORTPOWERFUL OPPOSITION

• Cities and States Advance Visit ability before
  National
• Advocacy Group Efforts
• Builders Opposition

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GOOD

• HB 1441 presents a good start to provide for
  basic access into new home builds, it does not
  address life long living in the home, or non
  government funded homes
• Local Visit ability Laws
• Do not address life long living
• May/may not address private builds

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BETTER

• PART M
• Includes all new homes built not just government
  funded builds
• Addresses basic access and visit ability

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BEST

• Lifetime Standards
• Expands on the requirements of Part M.
• Allow for modifications to the structure if the
  future needs of the homeowner dictate.

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ADVOCACY GROUPS
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INITIATORS OF CHANGE

• In both the UK and the US advocacy groups have
  done much to bring the need for re design of
  residential builds to the forefront
• UK Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• US Concrete Change

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BUILDERS
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The Building CommunitySeparate Shores Parallel
Problems

• Builder groups on both sides the Atlantic share
  beliefs that visit ability laws impose undue
  hardship on their industry.
• We will build it when the Consumer Demands it

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DESIGN PROFESSIONALS
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CREATORS OF CHANGE

• Its not enough to follow regulations for
  access.EXTREME IS GOOD FOR THE MEAN
• Its the Why behind the regulationDESIGN FOR
  LIFE OF THE OCCUPANT NOT THE LIFE OF THE BUILDING

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CONSUMER INFLUENCE AND POWER
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CONSUMER

• The key player for change
• in the US

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WHO IS THE CONSUMER?

• The new majorityThe grey majority
• Will need and want ID features due to Functional
  Aging
• Will leave homes that do not allow them to age in
  place in ease and comfort
• Family caring for family

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• FUNCTIONAL AGING
• It is a natural occurrence of the aging process
  (from birth to death) and interaction with both
  the social and physical environment that enables
  or disables individuals. Not just old age, but
  all ages. The influence of the built environment
  on ability is paramount on either side of the
  aging process.

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Lack of Consumer Demand?

• The consumer is either
• Unaware of the benefits
• or
• Does not realize the influence they have to
  request Inclusive Design when they are building
  homes.

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Consumers Driven Change

• When you consider architectural challenges to all
  involved audiences, or constituencies, and also
  consider that Inclusive Design has an inbred
  quality for all consumers no matter what age,
  life stage or even level of ability or
  disability, there is a large consumer market for
  Inclusive Design.

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MARKET POTENTIALCONSUMER DEMAND

• Manufacturers.creating awareness and preference
  directly with the consumer.NAME BRANDING OF
  INCLUSIVE DESIGN

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THE END USER

• Name Branding directly to the consumer
• Inclusive Design HOUSING
• INTEL COMPUTERS

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QUALITY of LIFE LANGUAGE

• Access Storage
• (Pull Out Shelves)
• Roll In Shower
• Wheelchair Work Space
• Roll Under Sink

• EZ Storage
• Spa Shower
• Multi height work areas
• Vanity Sink

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DREAMWOOD HOME

• Where ease and comfort are standard features

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STREAMWOOD HOME
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EDUCATING THE DEVELOPER

• Initially wanted a wheelchair bathroom
• ID education directed at consumer benefits
• Redesign of entire home

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Why Choose ID?

• Increasing potential buyer pool
• Increased the Usability of the home
• Designed for All
• Substantial return for very little increase over
  expected investment
• Prepping for features (high tech wiring, wall
  re-enforcement for potential grab bar placement
  etc.) that may be used later did not cost more at
  the time of rebuild
• Most added features were invisible but valuable

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FORMULA FOR CHANGE

• Advocates Design Professionals
• Educate Consumers
• to
• Inclusive Design Benefits
• INCREASED CONSUMER DEMAND
• INCREASED ID BUILDS

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THE TIPPING POINT

• When the application of Inclusive Design to
  residential builds is no longer uniquebut the
  norm

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CONTACT INFORMATION

• Diane Bright
• AccessAnswers_at_aol.com

• University of Salford
• www.surface.salford.ac.uk
• Marcus Oremond/Rita Newton