#justpublished 🤔 Have you ever wondered how people with disabilities evacuate from buildings? What barriers do they face and what solutions exist that support these individuals to evacuate in a safe manner? 🌎 Our world is changing - with more dense, urban, vertical cities and demographics that include projected increases in our ageing population and the rate of disability in our communities. As a result, now is the time to implement forward-thinking building standards and evacuation guidelines that consider the unique needs of individuals with functional limitations. 💡 I am so excited to announce the publication of our multi-year project titled, “Evacuation Solutions for Individuals with Functional Limitations in the Indoor Built Environment: A Scoping Review" in Buildings MDPI. We took a systematic approach to consider solutions that can support individuals with different impairments to navigate the various elements involved in an evacuation (from notification to egress), the unique challenges in different building types and emergencies, and how different disciplines can come together to design with inclusivity. 📎 These findings will help guide the creation of new accessibility standards in Canada. This project was a multi-team effort composed of researchers at both the Engineering Health team at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute as well as the Neuromuscular Control & Biomechanics Laboratory at the University of Alberta: Brad Roberts, Waqas Sajid, PEng, Zeyad Ghulam, Mark Weiler, Yashoda Sharma, Dr. Cesar Marquez Chin, Dr. Steven Pong. Special thanks to principal investigators Dr. Tilak Dutta and Dr. Albert Vette for their mentorship, encouragement, and guidance throughout the project! You can access the full open-access version here: https://lnkd.in/g-Nv_wab #disability #evacuation #naturaldisasters #firesafety #builtenvironment #aging #research #scopingreview #mdpi #buildings #openaccess
Nayef Abu Qaddum
10mo
Excellent work! 😃👏🏻
Abdulrahman Al Bochi Great to see your accomplishments.