List of design guidance
CAE design guidance
Designing for Accessibility
Designing for Accessibility, the Centre's best-selling design guide, is now published as a joint venture with RIBA Publishing. It is the acknowledged benchmark reference and is used as an access standard for grant providers and other organisations. Includes extensive plans and dimensional data illustrating internal and external features that commonly need attention in public buildings.
Andrew Lacey 2004 (ISBN 1 85946 143 3)
Price £22.50
Access Audit Handbook
The Access Audit Handbook is an multimedia planning tool for auditing the accessibility of buildings and services, and writing reports in the context of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, funding requirements and best practice in building management. It offers straightforward guidance about undertaking access audits and writing reports to communicate recommendations. The book comes with a series of auditing checklists and a DVD of the award-winning film 'Access Audits: a planning tool for businesses '.
Alison Grant 2005 (ISBN 1-85946-177-8)
Price £35.00
Good Loo Design Guide
Good Loo Design Guide, also published with RIBA Publishing. Now updated in line with Part M of the Building Regulations and BS 8300:2001, the Good Loo Design Guide takes an inclusive approach to the provision of WCs to suit a wide range of users, and gives guidance on various WC layouts.
Andrew Lacey 2004 (ISBN 1 85946 144 1)
Price £22.50
Museums and Art Galleries: Making Existing Buildings Accessible
This book confronts the dilemmas faced by architects and their clients in making museums and art galleries located in historic buildings more inclusive in response to contemporary access standards and regulations. Includes 14 varied case studies.
Adrian Cave 2007 (ISBN 978 1 85946 175 4)
Price £35.00
Specifiers' Handbooks for Inclusive Design
The Specifiers' Handbooks for Inclusive Design series comprises a set of design guides which look in detail at the technical aspects of key building elements. The series expands on the guidance given in Designing for Accessibility, a leading CAE/RIBA Publishing publication. Buy all five Specifiers' Handbooks for £49.95.
Architectural Ironmongery
Price Covers detailed aspects of door ironmongery, including manually operated door handles, locks, latches, self-closing devices, pull handles, door thresholds, door protection, window fittings and some specialist ironmongery.
Alison Grant 2005 (ISBN 1 85946 170 0)
£15.00
Automatic Door Systems
Covers detailed aspects of automatic door systems, including automatic sliding, folding, swing and balanced doors and low-energy swing doors, for use in non-domestic buildings.
Alison Grant 2005 (ISBN 1 85946 171 9)
Price £15.00
Internal Floor Finishes
Covers detailed aspects of internal floor finishes, including staircases, in non-domestic buildings. It covers general design issues common to most types of flooring as well as particular requirements for specific locations such as entrances, kitchens and sports halls. Operation and maintenance issues, including cleaning, that need to be considered at the design stage are also indicated.
Ann Alderson 2006 (ISBN-10 1 85946 255 5)
Price £15.00
Glass in Buildings
Covers the design criteria and detailed aspects of the different use of glass in
buildings, including windows,
doors, walls and partitions, balustrades, glazed entrance ways, floors, stairs, lifts, vision panels, protective screens, rooflights, display cases, conservatories, shower screens, signs and mirrors.
Ann Alderson 2006 (ISBN-10 1 85946 254 5)
Price £15.00
Platform Lifts
Covers the design and access opportunities that platform lifts offer in improving physical access to and within non-domestic buildings. Covers a range of platform lift types, including vertical platform lifts, wheelchair platform stairlifts and step lifts.
Alison Grant 2005 (ISBN 1 85946 172 7)
Price £15.00
Access Audits: a planning tool for business
This film, sponsored by Barclays PLC and launched for the European Year of Disabled People 2003, provides a thorough understanding of what access audits are, what they are for and how to carry one out appropriately and effective.
VHS (subtitled and BSL interpreted versions available)
DVD/CD ROM (subtitled and BSL interpreted versions available)
Price: VHS £1.50
DVD/CD ROM £12.00
Reading and Using Plans
This information pack explains to non-architects how to interpret and use architects' drawings, with a particular emphasis on features that help make buildings accessible to disabled people. It will support anyone monitoring planning and building regulations applications, advising building control officers, or anyone discussing design proposals with architects and clients. It will also be of value to occupational therapists advising on house adaptations.
Steven Thorpe 1994 (ISBN 0 903976 26 9)
Price £15.00
Access to ATMs: UK design guidelines
The 2002 edition of our authoritative design guide provides research-based information to ensure that Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) meet the needs of all users. Access to ATMs: UK design guidelines is based on ergonomic research and testing, offering design principles and guidelines for those who design, manufacture, install and maintain ATMs.
Robert Feeney 2002 (ISBN 0 903976 33 1)
Price £20.00
Planning your home for safety and convenience – practical advice for disabled and older people
Making decisions based on informed choices will help people live more easily in their homes. This guide contains useful recommendations for disabled and older people on how to make their homes safer and more suitable for both their present and future needs.
Andrew Lacey 2002 (ISBN 0 903976 34 X)
Price £7.50
Safety, security and environmental controls – a specifier's guide to Electronic Assistive Technology in the home
A guide for specifiers of electronic Assistive Technology (AT) products and systems for older and disabled clients in their homes, including door controls and entry systems, environmental controls and smart homes.
Introduction to the range of AT solutions available, description of product types, case studies of AT solutions in action, manufacturers/suppliers, contact details and useful organisations.
Andrew Lacey 2002 (ISBN 0 903976 35 8)
£10.50
House Adaptations: a working file for occupational therapists (PDF version only)
The working file is a source of information on all aspects of house adaptations. It is primarily for occupational therapists but also for other professionals involved in the process of adapting houses and flats to meet the needs of those who live in them. It is a loose-leaf ring binder covering all aspects of the process including:
- the roles and responsibilities of all those involved in an adaptation
- the building process, regulations and funding
- how buildings are constructed and supplied with services
- selecting products and elements of a building to suit a client's needs
The text is highly illustrated and there is a comprehensive index of key terms.
Stephen Thorpe, 1999 (ISBN 0 903976 26 3)
£25.00 (PDF version only)
The design of residential care and nursing homes for older people – Health Facilities Note 19 (PDF version only)
Published on behalf of CAE by NHS Estates, this guide promotes consistent, high-quality design that facilitates good care and quality of life for residents of care homes. Fully illustrated in colour, the guide covers design principles, detailed design, external environment and profiles of care homes, plus references, legislation, bibliography and useful organisations.
1998 (ISBN 0 9534158 0 5)
£15.00 (PDF version only)
Keeping up with the past: making historical buildings accessible to everyone
Reconciling the needs of disabled people with the conservation of historic buildings sometimes poses seemingly insurmountable problems. However, this film conveys the message that improvement is nearly always possible provided that it is done thoughtfully. It emphasises the importance of early consultation, good design and a full overview of the options in the management of change and inevitable alteration. It is intended to raise awareness and to help access groups, conservation officers and design professionals to improve access to historic properties for everyone. This film has been produced jointly by CAE and English Heritage.
Price: VHS £1.50
Other design guidance
All new publications are available in alternative formats. Customers may also purchase a copyright licence to customise appropriate design guides for their own purpose. Contact CAE for further details.
To order publications, fill out the order form and fax or post it to us.
Access audits of primary healthcare facilities – Health Facilities Note 20
Developed by CAE for NHS Estates, with diagrams reproduced from Designing for Accessibility.
NHS Estates, The Stationery Office, 1997 (ISBN 0 11 322056) 1
Price £75.00
Approved Document M: Access to and use of buildings 2004 edition
The Approved Document M offers guidance to help meet the duties under Part M of the Building Regulations.
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, The Stationery Office, 2004
£15.00
Access for Disabled People to School Buildings Building Bulletin 91
This bulletin aims to assist governors and managers of schools, their architects and LEAs to achieve optimum accessibility of their school buildings.
Department for Education and Employment, The Stationery Office, 1999 (ISBN 0 11 271062 X)
£14.95
Access for Disabled People – Design Guidance Note
This design guidance note offers advice on how to design new sports buildings and alter or adapt existing buildings to ensure good access.
Sport England, 2002 (ISBN 1 86078 149 7)
Price £10.50
Accessible thresholds in new housing: guidance for house builders and designers
Suggests design solutions for making the thresholds of dwellings more accessible under Part M of the Building Regulations.
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, The Stationery Office, 1999 (ISBN 0 11 702333 7)
Price £8.00
Buildings for All to Use
Good practice guidance for improving existing public buildings for disabled people.
Construction Industry Research and Information Association, Keith Bright and Sue Flanagan (ISBN 0 86017 610 X)
Price £96.00
Building Sight
A handbook of building and interior design solutions to include the needs of visually impaired people.
Peter Barker, Jon Barrick and Rod Wilson, HMSO in association with the Royal National Institute for the Blind, 1995 (ISBN 1 85878 074 8)
Price £25.00
Code of Practice – Rights of Access: services to the public, public authority functions, private clubs and premises
The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) has written and produced this Code of Practice on Part 3 (and related housing provisions) of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). The Code is a revision of the consultative draft Code published by the DRC in August 2005 to take account of further duties introduced in the DDA 2005.
Disability Rights Commission, The Stationery Office, 2006 (ISBN 0 11 703695 1)
Price £15.00
The Essential Companion to The ITAAL Directory of Accessible Loos in England
What constitutes a good accessible toilet and why we need them are the key issues addressed in this booklet. The information is wide ranging and includes: user views and concerns, guidance on how to plan, build and manage an accessible toilet, what the law says, and where to go for further advice/information. Planners, architects, maintenance staff, users and anyone concerned with designing and making public toilets accessible will find this guide invaluable.
Is There An Accessible Loo? (ITAAL), 2001 (ISBN 1 904155 01 4)
Price £5.00
Inclusive School Design – Accommodating pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in mainstream schools – Building Bulletin 94
Inclusive School Design examines issues of physical access; it also considers the design needs of pupils with sensory , learning, emotional and behavioural difficulties. The book features a number of illustrations and case studies, which demonstrate the benefits, for all pupils, of inclusive schooling.
Department for Education and Employment, The Stationery Office, 2001 (ISBN 0 11 271109 X)
Price £19.95
Meeting Part M and Designing Lifetime Homes
Detailed guide giving technical advice on quality and standards in designing lifetime homes
Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1999 (ISBN 0 11 322056 1)
Price £19.95
Personal Emergency Egress Plans
A practical manual on how to plan and implement the management elements of a fire safety strategy for the safe evacuation of disabled people. Available only from CAE.
Northern Officer Group, 1993 (ISBN 0 9521792 02)
Price £6.00
Sign Design Guide – a guide to inclusive signage
Signage has a significant role to play in ensuring that the built environment is accessible to everyone. The Sign Design Guide provides comprehensive guidance on the specification, implementation of accessible signage.
Peter Barker and June Fraser, JMU and the Sign Design Society, 2000 (ISBN 185878 412 3)
Price £20.00
Wheelchair housing design guide
The second edition of the Wheelchair housing design guide, aims to offer the latest information on how to design and detail a home that is fully manageable by wheelchair users and that maximises their independence.
Stephen Thorpe and Habinteg Housing Association, BRE Press, 2006 (ISBN 1 86081 897 8)
Price £40.00