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Accessible Buildings Standards

Key standard for the construction industry on disabled access to buildings

The new BS 8300 Design of buildings and their approaches to meet the needs of disabled people – Code of practice

The revised BS 8300:2009 explains how the building can be designed to anticipate, and overcome, restrictions that prevent disabled people making everyday use of premises and their surroundings.

An standard and accessible environment is one which a disabled person can enter and make use of independently or with minimal assistant, including being able to escape in the event of a fire or other emergency (See BS 9999). The guidance in the BS 8300 standard will cover a wide range of disabilities and the use of the built environment by disabled people.

BS 8300 gives recommendations for the design of buildings and their approaches to meet the needs of disabled people, including, where appropriate, disabled children. It applies to car parking, setting-down points and garaging, access routes to and around buildings, and entrances to and interiors of new buildings. The standards recommendations also covers routes to facilities associated with and in the immediate vicinity of buildings.

The revised BS 8300:2009 applies to the following types of building:

a) Transport and industrial buildings, e.g. rail, road, sea and air travel buildings and associated concourses, car parking buildings and factories
b) Administrative and commercial buildings, e.g. courts, offices, banks, post offices, shops, department stores and shopping centers and public service buildings, including police stations.
c) Health and welfare buildings, e.g. hospitals, health centers surgeries and residential homes.
d) Refreshment, entertainment and recreation buildings, e.g. cafes restaurants, public houses concert halls, theatres, cinemas, conference buildings, community buildings, swimming pools and sports buildings.
e) Religious buildings.
f) Educational, cultural and scientific buildings, e.g. schools, universities, colleges, zoos, museums, art galleries, libraries and exhibition buildings.
g) Dwellings and other residential buildings, e.g. hostels, hotels, residential clubs, university and college halls of residence, nursing homes and prisons.

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