Inclusive environments Flashcards
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What do you think inclusive environments is?
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- Designing Buildings and spaces which are accessable to all and if done propertly will not add cost.
- Aims to enable everyone to participate
- Creating an environment that everyone want to be in to help productivity
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What is diversity of user needs?
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- Community - Accessability
- Healthy buildings - Promote pleasant environments
- Sound - Is there too much sound from building works etc
- Movement/accessibility / vibration - How to move around a buiilding. Vibration from plant machinery
- Environment/space/working experience - Space, occupancy levels
- Light - natural light for working conditions
- Water - testing/quality
- Indoor enronmental quality
- Thermal comfort, heat, CO2 and fresh air - Not too hot or cold, air conditioning
- Effects wellbeing/productivity - Good wellbeing creates better productivity
- Nourishment/food - Canteen service within the building
- Amenities -
- Mind, beauty, design - Austhetics of the building
- Occupancy
- Monitoring and measuring performance of the environment
3
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What local planning policies are relevant?
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Spacial planning considering equality and diversity
- safe guarding - school, nurseries
- Improving place spaces
- New areas of opportunity / new buildings
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Planning Portal - Policy and Legislation
- Culture
- Sustainable communities - Regeneration
- Monitoring and improving
4
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What buildiing regulations are relevant?
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- Part B - Fire Safety (Requirements, spaces, safe zones)
- Part K - Protection from falling, collision, impact
- Part M - Access & use of buildiings - Door widths, stairss, access for disabled people
- It could incorporate others too…
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What are relevant health and safety issues?
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HSE Web Site mentions
- Diversity & equality (tackling discrimination)
- Vulnerable employees (Someone who is vulnerable)
- Commitment to Equility (Equality Act 2010) (DDA Act)
- Strategy for workplace H&S - Abililty to ensure the H&S measures
- RICS Surveying Safely (Nov 2018) -
6
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What is the difference between ethical issues and legal requirements?
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Ethical issues
- Respect etc
- Diversity and Inclusivity
- Human Resources
- Employment Legislation
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Equality Act 2010
- Race Relations
- Sexual Discrimination
- Human Rights
7
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What best practice is out there?
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- RICS website info on Diversity & Inclusion
- ‘Work With Me’ Calling businesses to action
- BSI - British Standards, inclusive design
- Design Council - Inclusive environments (Collaboration - BIFM, CABE, CIAT, CIC, CIOB, RICS, RIBA…)
- Scope - Equality for disabled people
- United Nations - Conventiion on the riights of Persons with Disability
- Construction Industry Council - Essential Principles Guide
- Health & Safety at Work Act 1974
- Recruitment / Resources
- Employment Law
- Anti-slavery
- Work/Life balance
- Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Charities - Lionheart (Mental health/Mindfulness)
8
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Sample APC Questions
- How can you make a working environment more inclusive?
- Talk to me about some relevant inclusitivity legislation?
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9
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Why create Inclusive environments?
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- To help tackling social disadvantagess - Dilapidated towns/streets overcrowded or badly insualted housing
- To help economic inequality - The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer
- Social cohesion - Creating a boundary line which divides ethnic communiities = them and us mentality.
- A new shopping mall near to a town will hurt the local high street
- Gentrification can improve neiighbourhoods as it is a process of renovation
- An ageing population - As the population is getting older then housiinig needs to change to meet the needs.
- Health inequalities - Having poor access to poorly designed street, parks and neighbourhoods increases physical inactivity which is detramental to health.
- Street promoting pedestrians and cyclists over motorists.
- From a business sence for improve productivity
10
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Can you name the 9 protected characteristics of The Equility Act 2010?
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- Age - Covers both young and old
- Disability - Where a person has a physiical or mental impairment
- Gender Reassignment - where a persons is considering changing genders
- Marriage and Ciivil Partnership - whether married or not also recognises same sex couples
- Pregnancy and Maternity - no discriminatiion becouse they are pregnant or on materniity leave
- Race - Race, Colour and Nationality
- Religion and/or belief - Religion beleifs including Atheism
- Sex - Men and Women must be treated equally
- Sexual Orientation - Own sex, oppossite sex or both sexes
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What is a resonable adjustment within the Equality Act?
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- Existing buildiings would have needed to have provided ramps for access if thehy only had steps.
- For new build it is easier to consider the access right from the start.
12
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What does the National Planning Policy Framework 2019 do/state?
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- Sets out the Governments planning policy for England
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Identifies the need for planning policies that are:
- Safe
- Inclusive
- Accessible
- and Promote health and Well-being
- They are now fuinding their way onto Local Plans
13
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What does the draft New London Plan (2018) state?
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- One of the 6 growth policies facuses on “Buildiing strong and Inclusive communities” therefore minimising barriers and challenges and inequalities.
14
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What does Part M of the Approved Document state:
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- If provides minimum functional requirements to be met relating to accessibility.
- These include size of door opening for wheelchair access
- Size of lift.
- The size and gradiant of pathways
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What are five key principles of Inclusive Design?
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People first
- Plces people at the heart of the design process by iinvolving as many people as possible on the design
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Diversity & Difference
- Acknowledges diversity and difference
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Choice
- Inclusive desiign offers choice
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Flexibility
- Inclusive design provides flexibility in use
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Positive experience
- Inclusive design provides environments that are convenient and enjoyable to use for everyone
