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Accessibility of emergency evacuation for differentlyabled people in public hospital buildings in Sri Lanka: the national policy enhancements

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dc.contributor.author Manoj, S
dc.contributor.author Mallawaarachchi, H
dc.contributor.author Soorige, SDA
dc.contributor.author Jayasena, N
dc.contributor.editor Sandanayake, YG
dc.contributor.editor Gunatilake, S
dc.contributor.editor Waidyasekara, KGAS
dc.date.accessioned 2023-01-13T05:50:46Z
dc.date.available 2023-01-13T05:50:46Z
dc.date.issued 2018-06
dc.identifier.citation ********** en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/20170
dc.description.abstract It is very difficult task in nature and a prevailing issue in the world today to provide a reasonable access for differently abled people within any building. Specially, giving fair and impartial accessibility has become very complex and an ongoing global issue. However, various policies and guidelines have been developed in countries enabling buildings to be used by the differently abled people by building them in terms of ease of access for emergency evacuation. Among the other buildings, healthcare facility has obtained the first concern when considering its’ heavy use by differently abled people. Thus, this research was conducted with the purpose of studying on the accessibility procedures of emergency evacuation for the differently abled people in public buildings with special emphasis to public hospitals since the current evacuation means in healthcare sector are not adequately developed based on the needs of differently abled people. The research was conducted using case study method under qualitative phenomenon. Semi-structured interviews were conducted among building professionals who had more than five years of experience in the field of accessibility to collect the data. Hence, three public hospital buildings in Sri Lanka were selected. Accessibility procedures of emergency evacuation and issues in existing practice were investigated related to safety and security, access to built environment and access to communication in line with the National Policy on Disability for Sri Lanka. Case study data revealed that not having predetermined procedure for evacuating differently abled people and less awareness on existing safety and security procedures thus need special attention. Accordingly, a framework was developed to propose the probable enhancements for the national policy. The enhanced policy can be used as a national strategy to assure the ease of accessibility of emergency evacuation for differently abled people in public hospital buildings in Sri Lanka. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Ceylon Institute of Builders en_US
dc.relation.uri https://ciobwcs.com/downloads/WCS2018-Proceedings.pdf en_US
dc.subject Accessibility en_US
dc.subject Differently-abled People en_US
dc.subject Emergency evacuation en_US
dc.subject Public hospital buildings en_US
dc.subject Sri Lanka en_US
dc.title Accessibility of emergency evacuation for differentlyabled people in public hospital buildings in Sri Lanka: the national policy enhancements en_US
dc.type Conference-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Building Economics en_US
dc.identifier.year 2018 en_US
dc.identifier.conference 7th World Construction Symposium 2018 en_US
dc.identifier.place Colombo en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 13-22 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Built Asset Sustainability: Rethinking Design, Construction and Operations en_US


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