CAE - Centre for Accessible Environments

Are you passionate about preserving heritage while ensuring it's accessible to all? Then our online Access to Historic Buildings and Environments course is for you! 📚 Learn how to balance conservation with inclusivity, understand the legal framework, and discover practical solutions for creating welcoming spaces in historic buildings. Join us on 24 October 2024 to make inaccessible buildings and environments history. Book now. → https://lnkd.in/eGGdkk8n #accessibility #inclusivedesign #heritage #historicbuildings

📢 Habinteg and CAE - Centre for Accessible Environments' Inclusive Housing Design Guide is launching today! Our RIBA-published Inclusive Housing Design Guide (IHDG), authored by Jacquel Runnalls and peer reviewed by Marney Walker, is hot of the presses and ready to buy. The guide is for anyone needing guidance on how accessible housing can be designed and built. It addresses misconceptions about accessible housing, offering a fresh, practical approach to delivering attractive, adaptable, and inclusive homes that can benefit everyone. Pick up your copy today! → https://lnkd.in/dKNZmYUe #IHDG #AccessibleHousing #UKHousing

📘Looking forward to the book launch this week of our and Habinteg's Inclusive Housing Design Guide - written by Jacquel Runnalls and peer-reviewed by Marney Walker - which is available to buy in the CAE Shop now. →https://lnkd.in/dKNZmYUe With invaluable advice, insights, explanations, and illustrations, it is an essential guide on how to deliver housing that is functional, and inclusive for everyone. Also available from RIBA Publishing. #accessible #inclusiveDesign #housing #architectecture #homes #AHW2024 #inclusion

Did you hear? We have a new Access Panel made up of a diverse group of disabled people and access specialists, who can offer valuable insights, advice and best practice guidance to ensure your projects are accessible to all. You can leverage the panel’s expertise to: • Mitigate accessibility barriers using the social model of disability. • Avoid costly retrofits by integrating accessibility considerations early on. • Create a more inclusive experience for everyone. Think your project could benefit from the Access Panel's guidance? Email info@cae.org.uk with a brief project outline to find out how our panel might help. More. → https://lnkd.in/eWQYrxik #Accessibility #Inclusion #BuiltEnvironment #CAE #SocialModelofDisability

We're thrilled to announce that five graduates from our Pathways Academy programme are now part of our team of access consultants. The Academy is part of City Bridge Foundation's Bridge to Work initiative, which tackles unemployment amongst disabled Londoners. These success stories demonstrate the programme's impact in creating opportunities for talented individuals. We're committed to its continuation and are exploring wider funding options to expand the Academy's reach. Read more about our #PathwaysAcademy graduates and their journey at CAE. → https://lnkd.in/eCvRv2He And check out our Pathways video below. #DisabilityInclusion #SocialImpact #PathwaysAcademy 

If you’re embarking on a project to build accessible homes, our multi-disciplinary team has expertise and comprehensive experience in Local Authority Planning, Building Control, and occupational therapy, enabling us to help with even the most complex challenges in accessible housing design. We can support your project team with: • Training (including M4(2) and (3) accessible dwellings standards) • Access statements, strategies and plans to support planning and building control applications. • Reviews of masterplans and housing regeneration schemes. • Reviews of kitchen and bathroom specifications for wheelchair accessible properties. • Training on Approved Document M Volume 1: Dwellings, and more. Contact us now to discuss how we can help with your housing project by calling 0207 822 8232 or emailing info@cae.org.uk. More. → https://lnkd.in/dxKcNvu #DisabledPeople #Accessibility #UKHousing

It's the last day of our Accessible Homes Week - we hope you've enjoyed reading our research and insightful blogs. Thank you for all the likes, comments, and reposts, please keep them going! To wrap up the week, we have a feature on Habinteg and CAE - Centre for Accessible Environments's new Inclusive Housing Design Guide. The guide - authored and peer reviewed by Specialist Housing Occupational Therapist & Inclusive Environments Specialists, Jacquel Runnalls , and marney walker respectively - launches on Wednesday 18 September. In this feature, we’ve shared some key points from a Q&A with Jacquel to demonstrate why the guide is essential reading for those building new homes. → https://lnkd.in/ee3e8WZR #AccessibleHomesWeek #AHW2024 #ForAccessibleHomes #M42Now Keir Starmer Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

If your work revolves around preserving the character of heritage sites while ensuring accessibility, and implementing inclusive design solutions for disabled visitors, we’ve got just the course for you. Our 24 October 2024 training on Access to Historic Buildings and Environments will give you the skills and knowledge to: • Understand diversity and access requirements in the historic built environment • Plan with understanding of statutory framework including the Equality Act, planning permission, building regulations and listed buildings • Balance access and conservation and the role of access audits. We’ll even include case studies and examples of good practice. If you’d like to become a champion for inclusive heritage, book your place now. → https://lnkd.in/eGGdkk8n #HistoricBuildings #InclusiveDesign #DisabledVisitors

A great blog, for Habinteg's Accessible Homes Week, by Royal College of Occupational Therapists's Lauren Walker, on how an ambitious housing agenda can also help improve public health. Read the full blog in the post below. #AccessibleDesign #AcessibleHomes #AccessibleHomesWeek

Want to know why you should pre-order Habinteg Housing Association’s and CAE - Centre for Accessible Environments’ new Inclusive Housing Design Guide now? Here are five reasons: 1) It provides practical guidance with explanations, illustrations, case studies and technical specifications on cost effective ways to deliver inclusive, attractive, accessible and adaptable homes. 2) It dispels common myths and misunderstandings about Part M Volume 1: Dwellings M4(2) and M4(3), providing the rationale for exceeding the minimum requirements through detailed insights into how environments impact on disabled and older peoples’ ability to live well in their own homes 3) It provides practical guidance with useful explanations, illustrations, case studies and technical specifications on cost-effective ways to deliver inclusive, attractive, accessible and adaptable homes. 4) It updates and builds on the Wheelchair Housing Design Guide by providing guidance on how to meet and exceed the minimum requirements of M4(2), and additional considerations for outside space and connectivity to the local neighbourhood. 4) It provides standalone sections on Strategic Site layout and communal outside space, M4(2) accessible and adaptable general homes and M4(3) wheelchair user homes. If you’re a housing commissioner, developer or built environment professional, the Inclusive Housing Design Guide should be your go-to resource. Pre-order your copy now for early delivery in September. → https://lnkd.in/dKNZmYUe #IHDG #InclusiveHousing #UKHousing