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EPSRC Reference:	GR/M69197/01
Title:	BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THEORY & IMPLEMENTATION IN ACCESSIBLITY - A BEST PRACTICE APPROACH
Principal Investigator:	Ormerod, Professor MG
Other Investigators:	Barrett, Professor P Newton, Miss R
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Project Partners:	Age UK Arthritis Care Disability Advice & Welfare Network Disability Wales Hearing Concern Joint Mobility Unit Limbless Association Motor Neurone Disease Association National Disability Council Parkinson's UK Powys County Council Royal Association for Disability & Rehab Royal National Inst for Deaf People Scope
Department:	Res Inst for the Built and Human Env
Organisation:	University of Salford
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 June 1999	Ends:	28 February 2002	Value (£):	248,726
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Building Ops & Management
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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The aim of the research is to undertake a study into the best practice approach for implementing designguidance on access issues in the built environment: Buildings facilitate .social inclusion far thosewith disabilities and the elderly. If the environment' is inaccessible have litle choice butto.stay in their- own home. This research will examine. the- methods .designers .use. in designing forassessibility. It seeks to assist designers, to improve the .r typically weak practice in this area bygenerating the knowledge base needed to .underpin development of the design for all approach. Avariety of research techniques will be used to ascertain qualitative information leading to a ConsensiDocument and a. Best practice guide Designers, clients, building ,professionals and users of buildingswill benefit from this study; The research is a fallow-oix from a previously funded EPSRC feasabilitystudy (GR/M05270).Keywords describing areas of proposal. Building, Design, Accessible Environments, Codes of Practice
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