CONSTRUCTION & SITE SAFETY
BUILDING AN INCLUSIVE, INNOVATIVE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
The Construction Industry Council (CIC) asks what more the construction sector can do to increase the safety, accessibility and inclusivity of our buildings, places and spaces.
There has been a marked shift in the last 20 to 30 years in our attitude towards disability, with significant improvements in legislation and technical design standards and a more inclusive approach to designing buildings that are accessible to disabled and older people.
However, many people still face considerable environmental, attitudinal and organisational barriers when trying to participate in everyday activities, as campaigns by Attitude is Everything, Level Playing Field, Muscular Dystrophy Trailblazers and Leonard Cheshire Disability demonstrate.
It’s not just younger disabled people who still find it difficult to obtain work - the employment gap between
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disabled and non disabled people is significant - but many older people wishing to maintain active and independent lives can also be constrained by the inaccessibility of our buildings and facilities. A Commons Select Committee inquiry into the accessibility of our homes, buildings and public spaces has just been launched in recognition that more needs to be done to ensure that we can all participate equally.
The inclusive experience delivered by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is still almost unique. Using a similar inclusive design strategy and updated inclusive design standards Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is now becoming one of the most accessible neighbourhoods
in the country. But this is not the case in every new or altered building, despite improved planning and building control regulations.
The positive media coverage of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games helped to challenge stereotypes and promote positive images of disability. In spite of this it is still important to ask: what more can we do to make our buildings, places and spaces safer, easier and more comfortable for all of us to use - equally, with dignity and independently?
ENHANCING THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL One of the projects which emerged from the Government’s Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Programme is the Built Environment Professional Education Project (BEPE).
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