VIET NAM CONSTRUCTION STANDARD TCXDVN 264 : 2002 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS ÷ BASIC RULES OF ACCESSIBLE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES 1 FOREWORD TCXDVN 264: 2002 is compiled on the basis of the Ordinance on PWD: Article 26.- “The investment for new construction or reconstruction of dwelling houses, of public amenities and for design, manufacture of domestic furnitures, of transport and communication means . must take into account the needs for convenient use by PWD, firstly of mobility and sight PWD, and at the same time have to comply with construction codes, standards issued by competent state agencies”. TCXDVN 264: 2002 is compiled by the Research Institute for Architecture – Ministry of Construction and Panel for elaborating “Building Codes and Standards of Construction Accessibility for People With Disabilities”, submitted by the Department of Science and Technology - Ministry of Construction, has been approved, signed and issued by the said Ministry for enforcement. The Standards have been compiled with the cooperation and financial assistance by President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities (PCEPD) and the Vietnam Assistance for Handicapped (VNAH). 2 VIETNAM CONSTRUCTION STANDARD TCXDCN 264:2002 Houses and Building - Basic rules of accessible design and construction for PWD. 1. Scope of Application 1.1. This standard is applied in the new construction of works for ensuring the accessibility and use by mobility and sight PWD. In cases of need for reconstruction, upgrade of works with requirements for ensuring accessibility and use by PWD, the regulations of this standard must be enforced. 1.2. When applying regulations in this standard, the regulations of building codes ensuring accessibility and use by PWD must be respected. 1.3. It is mandatory to ensure safety on walking paths and facilities for PWD accessibility to and use of works according to Article 2.1 of Building codes. 2. Standard cited - Vietnam Building Codes - Building code of construction accessibility for people with disabilities - TCXD 228:1998 - Walking paths for PWD in buildings. Part 1. Walking paths for wheelchair users. Requirements on design. 3. Terminology - Definition Terms used in this standard are stipulated in the Building code for construction in view of ensuring PWD’s accessibility and use QCXDVN 01:2002 4. General regulations 4.1. Requirements on design of houses and buildings for ensuring PWD’s accessibility and use must be in accordance with regulations in table 1. 3 TCXDVN 264: 2002 Table 1: Design components of houses and buildings Type of buildings Scope of areas to be designed for ensuring PWD’s accessibility and use Basic requirements 1 2 3 Different levels of people committees’ offices, Tribunal, Prosecutor’s Institutes , Offices of State administration bodies and organizations - Walking ways, car parking grounds; - Entry, exit gates; - Reception desks and public activity areas; - Working seats and specific equipment - Arrangement of structure and function of building’s parts for ensuring PWD’s accessibility and use. - Meeting, conference venues needing seat arrangement for PWD Culture, sport works such as: Parks, entertainment areas, zoos, theaters, cinemas, museums, exhibition, cultural buildings, clubs, libraries, tourism areas, vestiges, picturesque landscapes, stadiums, sport/gym grounds, contest halls - Walking ways, car parking grounds, - Entry, exit gates, - Reception desks and public activity areas, - Emergency escape when accident occurs - Helping equipment - Spectators’ area - Arrangement of structure and function of building’s parts for ensuring PWD’s accessibility and use. - Reading rooms, spectators’ rooms, tribunes must be arranged with seats for PWD Public service buildings: hotels, rest houses, boarding houses, shops, and eating/drinking services, post offices, trade centers, super markets, markets, banks. - Walking ways, car parking grounds, - Entry, exit gates - Reception desks and public activity areas, business activity areas, - Emergency escape when accident occurs, - Helping equipment - Rooms’ area - Arrangement of structure and function of building’s part for ensuring PWD’s accessibility and use. - Lift must be available on all service storeys. - At shops, bazaars, there must be sloping paths in entry/exit doors, in seats, reception places. - Beds, equipment and facilities must be arranged in rooms reserved to PWD Public health buildings: hospitals, centers for orthopedic and functional restoration, disease consultation and treatment units, sanatorium centers. Scope of use by patients - Arrangement of structure and function of building’s parts for ensuring PWD’s accessibility and use Educational buildings: different levels’ primary schools, vocational schools, colleges/ universities, specialized secondary schools - Walking ways, car parking grounds - Entry, exit gates - Class- rooms, labos. - Students’ seat places and specially used equipment. - Arrangement of structure and function of building’s parts for ensuring PWD’s accessibility and use. - In classrooms, there must be seat places for PWD 4 Collective houses - Walking ways, car parking grounds - Entry, exit gates - Spaces in house interior - Arrangement of equipment, furnitures - Arrangement of structure and function of building’s parts for ensuring PWD’s accessibility and use Transport building works: roads, sidewalks, stations for vehicles, railway stations, airports, passengers’ transport harbors, car-waiting spots Scope of use by passengers - Arrangement of structure and function of building’s parts for ensuring PWD’s accessibility and use - Lines of ways/paths for PWD’s accessibility and circulation Note: 1) Structure and function of building’s parts comprise slopes, entry/exit gates/doors, corridors, walkways, staircases, lifts (elevators), toilets, bathrooms, special public spaces such as seat places, reception desks, telephone booths. The concrete arrangement must be based on requirements to define it properly. 2) Regarding reconstructed works, it must be based on actual state of works for selecting appropriate solutions. 3) Regarding works specially reserved to PWD, it is possible to refer to this standard for adequate design. 4.2. In housing areas, in public buildings or in densely populous zones, it is necessary to have at least one entrance way for ensuring PWD’s accessibility and use. The height of entrance way must be the same with that of the house floor or of the soil surface. If these heights are different, there must be adequate slope. 4.3. If the entrance way has footsteps, it is necessary to arrange handrails in both sides so that people who move with difficulty on crutches, on sticks could walk through. 4.4. In car parking grounds, places must be arranged for PWD’s wheelchairs, just adjacent to sloping way or to entry/exit path of the buildings. There must be guiding posts at parking places of PWD’s wheelchairs. 4.5. Lifts in buildings must ensure following requirements: a) Serving all floors; b) Convenient entry path for wheelchairs; c) Clearance dimensions of lift cabin must ensure accessibility and use by PWD; d) System of lift’s switchboards must be adequately accessible to wheelchair users and blind people; e) There must be handrails at lift cabin walls; 5 f) In lift cabin there must be sound devices, raised symbols and Braille raised dots for blind people 4.6. On entrance way, entry path to buildings and in public spaces in buildings, for ensuring PWD’s accessibility and use, signposts, guiding posts according to international convention must be arranged and put in easily visible recognizable places 5. Design requirements 5.1. Sloping ways 5.1.1. Entrance ways to buildings for ensuring PWD’s accessibility and use must be flat, plane, unrugged, unslippery and without brusque change of level. Where there is brusque change of level, it is necessary to design sloping way. 5.1.2. Sloping ways of entrance reserved to PWD using wheelchairs are calculated for design as follows: - Slope: - Not over 1/12 for public buildings - From 1/10 to 1/20 for collective houses. - Width of sloping way no less than 1,000mm to 1,200mm; - Where length of sloping way being over 9,000mm, it is necessary to arrange landing place. Length of landing place being not less than 2,000mm; landings are arranged with equal distances not exceeding 9,000mm (see fig. 1 and fig. 2) 6 Fig.1: Slope plan outside the house - At the two sides of sloping way, handrails must be arranged. Details for design of handrails are shown in article 5.6. Note: 1) When sloping way changes direction, it is necessary to arrange L-form landing with each length of 2,000mm 2) Regarding reconstructed, upgraded buildings, allowed slope in sloping way in 1/10, and allowed length is 6,000mm 5.1.3. At the top and end of sloping way, it must be a free space with not than 1,500mm long for wheelchair moving. 5.1.4. Balustrade, handrail must be arranged at both sides of sloping way. Where a side of sloping way has an empty space, then in the lower part of balustrade, handrail, it is advised to arrange safety relief with height not less than 50mm or barring fence, see fig.3. 5.2. Entry path 5.2.1. For buildings with preservation requirement or buildings where it is impossible to arrange sloping ways, it is necessary to build entry path with steps for people having difficulties in moving on crutches, sticks and blind men. Entry path with steps must ensure following requirements (see fig. 4) - Height of steps: less than or equal to 150mm; - Width of step surface no less than 300mm; - Not to use half-open steps; - Landing to be arranged at top step; - Where there are more than 3 steps, handrails must be arranged on both sides of steps. Details for design of handrails are shown in article 5.6. 7 Fig.2: Slope plan with landing in the corner Fig.3: Safety balustrade of sloping way Note: For collective houses, it is permitted that the step height being 120mm to 160mm. Width of step surface: 250mm to 400mm. 1. Smallest dimensions of space before entrance way: 1500mm x 1,500mm; 2. Door of entrance way laid in the gorge of wall; 3. Handrail prolonged at the extremity slope; 4. Handrail prolonged at the end of slope; 5. Entrance way with steps; 6. Sidewalk; 7. Handrail arranged at a height of 900mm; 8. Sloping way with slope of 1/12, 1200mm wide 5.2.2. Entrance way to hall, corridor with different heights must be arranged with sloping path. Slope must not exceed 1/12. Width of sloping path being not less than 900mm (see fig 5,6 and 7) 8 Fig.4: Entrance way with steps Fig 5: Perspective of sloping path (wide base) 5.3. Car parking grounds and car waiting spots 5.3.1. Data for calculating parking places for PWD are as follows: - Wheelchair, motorbike: from 2,35sqm/vehicle to 3 sq.m/vehicle - Bicycle: 0,9sqm/each - Car: from 15sqm to 18sqm/vehicle Note: Regarding place for car, it is necessary to arrange a clearance space beside or behind the car for Wheelchair user could ascend and descend. Width being from 900mm to 1,200mm (for bus, it is 2,500mm). If two cars are adjoining, it could be so arranged as having a common space for wheelchairs in - between (see fig.8) 9 Fig 6: Perspective of sloping path (prolonged) Fig 7: Perspective of sloping path with continued sidewalk Fig 8: Dimensions prescribed for a parking place 5.3.2. At car waiting spots, it is necessary to design sloping streaks or sloping paths ensuring PWD accessibility to transport means. Details for design of sloping streaks, sloping parks are stipulated in article 5.1.2. 5.4. Doors 5.4.1. Doors in buildings to ensure PWD use must be arranged at convenient and safe passage ways. Where the building is equipped with lift, doors must be arranged near the lift cabin. Note: Doors comprise gate, entrance way without door, entry/exit door to and from hall. 5.4.3. Inside and outside the door, it must be a clearance space with dimensions 1,500mm x 1,500mm. 5.4.4. If the door comprises two layers, the clearance interval between layers must be no less than 1,200mm. 5.4.5. It is advised to use doors opening to both sides and automatically opened, closed doors, pushed doors and rotary doors instead of doors opened by hand. Not to use too heavy door or many-winged revolved doors. Width of door being not less than 800mm for houses, 900mm for public buildings; not to arrange doors close to wall corners. Note: Force deployed for opening, closing all types of doors shall not exceed 30N (3Kg.m/s 2 ) and could open doors up to an angle of 90 0 . 5.4.6. Door knobs must be easily/smoothly operated and close to key holes. Door knobs must rotate clockwise and arranged at 800mm to 1,100mm from the floor surface. 5.4.7. Where door opening opposite to the direction of walk path, it is necessary to arrange a clearance space with a width over 500mm on the side of door knob/see fig.9) 5.4.8. Not to put door sill or salience on the inner side for door with clearance space less than 800mm Note:1) It is only permitted to put door-sill on the inner side for doors with clearance space over 800mm, but not with height over 10mm; 2) Modes for opening the door (see fig 10) 5.4.9. Regarding pulled door, slide door, accordion door, the clearance spaces for each type are calculated according to tables 2, 3. 10 Fig 9: Direction for access to door [...]... 1 3: Width of passage way 13 Fig 1 4: Width of corridor changing direction 5.5.5 Clearance dimensions for wheelchair moving in corridor, passage way, are regulated as follows: a) Direct, right angle entrance way (see fig 15 ): clearance dimensions being 1,200mm x 900mm Fig 1 5: Direct, right angle entrance way b) Parallel entrance way (see fig 16 ): clearance dimensions being 1,500 mm x 800 mm Fig 1 6: Parallel... 1 9: Gradually lowered clearance height 5.5.9 Clearance space under the knees and place for feet putting of wheelchair user are regulated as follows (see fig 20 ): 15 - Distance from floor surface to above the knees: 650mm; - Distance from floor surface to under the knees: 500mm; - Place for feet putting: 200mm 5.5.10 Reach of arm by wheelchair user (from the floor surface or the ground) is as follows:... movable shower Fig4 4: Bathing room combined wilt lavatory Length of bathtub Length of bathtub Fig 4 5: Bathing room with bathtub 5.11.6 In bathing room for installing handit is in bathing room with shower Fig 4 6: Place with bathtub, rails necessary to install handrails for ensuring accessibility and use by PWD Dimensions for installation are as follows: a) Bathtub with fixed chair: handrails are installed... surface 30 Fig 4 2: Elevation for installing lavatory 5.10.11 Looking glass in toilet room is suspended at an elevation not exceeding 900mm from floor surface to upper rim of the looking glass 5.11 Bathing room 5.11.1 Clearance space dimensions of bathing room for PWD are as follows: a) Door swing to outside: dimensions not less than 1,200mm x 800mm b) Bathing room with movable shower: dimensions not... above the floor level 5.5 Corridor, passage way 5.5.1 Clearance width of corridor, passage way is as follows: - For passage of one wheelchair: not less than 1,200mm; - For passage of one wheelchair and one pedestrian from opposite direction: not less than 1,500mm - For passage of two wheelchairs: not less than 1,800mm (see fig.13) 5.5.2 At the spot where a corridor changes direction, the corridor must...Note: Regarding building works with doors width exceeding or equal to 1,100mm such as doors of rooms in hospitals, these requirements on dimensions are not prescribed a) Pulled doors: clearance space for wheelchairs as in fig 11 In case of closed door or locked door, there dimensions are extended with additional 300mm Fig 1 0: Modes for opening door Directly opened... materials ensuring a force resistance of 1,100N (110 Kg.m/s+2+0 at any points Fig 2 5: Details for designing handrail 18 Fig 2 6: Position for arranging two handrails on one side 5.7 Staircase, up and down steps 5.7.1 Staircases for ensuring accessibility and use by people with moving difficulties are regulated as follows: - No use of semi-circled, spiralled staircases; - Width of stair flight not less... sides Continuous handrail around Fig 2 9: dimensions of staircase 5.7.5 Regarding reconstructed buildings where lift could not be installed, a system of lift platform by specialized devices fastened on balustrade or pulley could be adopted (see fig 30,31 and 32) Handrails at 900mm height should be arranged on both sides of staircase 20 Fig 3 0: Lifting equipment 21 Fig 3 1: Lifting equipment In cases of high... system for lifting or lowering by specialized devices fastened on balustrade or pulley 22 Fig 3 2: Specialized devices 5.8 Lift/elevator 5.8.1 Safety requirement when installing and using lift or electric lift must abide by regulations in standards TCVN 574 4: 1993 Lift - Safety requirement and use, and TCVN 639 5:1 998 Electric lift - Safety requirement on construction and installation 5.8.2 Lift door is... 300mm from above the handrail (see fig 38) Fig 3 8: Place for arranging sanitary paper box 5.10.6 On the wall around the closet, there 28 must be arranged safety handrail capable to withstand the body weight Details of handrails are in accordance with regulation in article 5.6 of this standard Dimensions of handrails are as follows (see fig 39 ): Fig 3 9: Dimensions for arranging handrails in toilet room . STANDARD TCXDVN 264 : 2002 HOUSES AND BUILDINGS ÷ BASIC RULES OF ACCESSIBLE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES 1 FOREWORD TCXDVN 26 4: 2002. accessibility and use must be in accordance with regulations in table 1. 3 TCXDVN 26 4: 2002 Table 1: Design components of houses and buildings Type of buildings Scope