The Access Audit Handbook

Name: The Access Audit Handbook
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781914124839
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An inclusive approach to auditing buildings

By Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE)

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The Access Audit Handbook is a practical guide for assessing the accessibility of buildings and services. It provides clear advice on how to conduct access audits, interpret findings, and produce reports that align with current legislation and best practices in building management. The third edition is updated with the latest legal and technical standards, featuring guidance on commissioning audits, audit methodology, making recommendations, and report writing, all supported by case studies, examples, and checklists.
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This book is ideal for professionals involved in building management, architecture, accessibility consulting, and anyone responsible for ensuring environments are inclusive and compliant with accessibility standards.

Well established as the best resource for conducting access audits, this book offers straightforward advice about undertaking access audits and explains how they make buildings, environments and services more inclusive.

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Our buildings and environments should be inclusive to all, but how can we assess this?

The Access Audit Handbook is an indispensable tool for auditing the accessibility of buildings and services. This book offers straightforward advice about undertaking access audits and explains how they make buildings, environments, and services more inclusive.

Following the audit, the book explains how each of the various report formats works best to communicate recommendations in the context of current legislation, funding requirements, and best practice in building management.

Well established as the best resource for conducting access audits, the third edition of The Access Audit Handbook is fully up to date with the latest legal and technical standards as well as developments in equipment and building maintenance.

Featuring advice on:

Commissioning an access audit
Audit methodology
Making recommendations
Report writing

The practical guidance is supported by case studies, worked examples, and checklists.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781914124839

Publisher: RIBA Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 March 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: RIBA Publishing

Edition: 3rd edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 208

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About the Author

Centre for Accessible Environments

Founded in 1969, CAE is one of the UK’s leading authorities on inclusive design and management and, through access consultancy and training, helps to provide environments that can be accessed, used and enjoyed by everyone.

CAE pioneered the provision of access guidance for building designers based on collaborative research with disabled people and this remains core to its activities and services. As a leader in promoting design for disabled people and inclusive design, CAE’s research projects and partnerships in the UK and overseas keep the team at the forefront of user-led intelligence which informs our work and services. CAE has produced technical input into research reports and toolkits on accessible standards and access publications. Since 2020 CAE has run the Pathways Academy, an initiative to support young disabled people into employment in the inclusion sector. CAE is part of Habinteg Housing Association, a leader in building and promoting accessible and inclusive homes and communities. Find out more about us at www.cae.org.uk