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BP-344 Group2
BP-344 Group2
3. Category I
Only government-owned structures are subject to the following requirements:
• Group A – includes duplexes, school or company housing units, and single detached.
• Group B – includes multiple dwelling units or high-rise residential condominiums or
tenement houses.
4. Category II
The guidelines listed below apply to both government and privately owned structures. This
includes:
• Group B
▪ Accessories, tenement or row houses, apartments, or townhouses.
▪ Hotels, motels, inns, pension houses, or apartels.
▪ Private or “off-campus” dormitories.
• Group C
▪ Amusement halls, parlor
▪ Massage and sauna parlors.
• Group E-1
▪ Train Stations and terminals
▪ Bus depots and terminals
▪ Transportation Office
▪ Airport terminal buildings and heliports
▪ Ports and harbor facilities, landing piers, sheds, ferry landing stations
• Group E-2
▪ General wholesale and retail stores
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▪ Shopping centers, supermarkets, and public markets
▪ Restaurants, dining, and drinking establishments
▪ Office buildings
▪ Financial institutions
▪ Funeral parlors, morgues, and crematories
▪ Memorial and Mortuary Chapels
• Group H-1, H-4 and Group I
▪ Theaters, Auditoriums, and Convention Halls
▪ Concert hall and Opera house
▪ Colisea, Sports Complexes, and Stadiums
• Group F
▪ Dairies and Creameries
▪ Factories and Workshops
▪ Breweries, Canneries, and Tanneries
• Group G-3
▪ Woodworking establishments, lumber, and timber yards
▪ Pulp, paper, and paper board factories
▪ Textile and fiber spinning mills
▪ Garment and undergarment factories
5. Category III
• Group C
▪ Educational institutions
▪ Libraries, museums, exhibition halls, and art galleries
▪ Civil centers
▪ Clubhouses and lodges
▪ Community Centers
• Group D-1
▪ Mental Hospitals, mental sanitaria, mental asylums
▪ Jails, prisons, reformatories, correctional institutions
▪ Rehabilitation Centers
▪ Leprosaria
• Group D-2
▪ Home for the Aged
▪ Hospitals and Sanitaria
• Group D-3
▪ Nursing homes for ambulatory patients
▪ orphanages
• Group E-7
▪ Police and fire stations
• Group H
▪ Churches, temples, chapels, and similar worship places
6. Category IV
• Group J-1
▪ Agricultural buildings
4 – 50 2
51 – 300 4
301 – 500 6
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Auditoriums, assembly halls, theaters, and related facilities shall implement the following:
• Accessible seating for those with disabilities from the main lobby, which is the main
entrance, including related restroom facilities.
• Spaces for those with disabilities in all assembly places.
• An additional wheelchair seating space shall be provided for those that exceed 500.
• Removable seats may be provided when the wheelchair is not allowed.
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2. CURB CUT-OUTS
• Only allowed when it is not blocking or lessening the width of the walkway.
• Curb cut-out shall have a minimum width of 0.90m.
• Have a gradient of not more than 1:12.
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Figure 14.3. Walkways and Passageways
4. HANDRAILS
• Be installed at each side of ramps and stairs and at the outer edges of dropped
curbs for smooth pedestrian flow.
• Must be installed 0.90m and 0.70m above steps or ramps. And can be 1.0m to
1.06m for higher heights protection.
• Start and end of ramps and stairs should have a 0.30m long extension of the
handrail.
• Full grasp of the handrail should have a dimension of 30mm to 50mm.
• Distance between handrails to walls should be no less than 50mm. And handrails
on ledges have a minimum clearance of 40mm.
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5. OPEN SPACES
• Should provide defined edges on walkways such as planters with dwarf walls, a
grass verge, or similar for the blinds, providing texture different from the path.
6. SIGNAGES
• Directional and informational signs should be positioned at points conveniently
seen by Persons with Disabilities (PWDs).
• Signs must be kept simple and understandable for easier detection and reading.
• Usage of the international symbol for designating accessible routes and facilities.
• Minimum headroom of 2.0 meters, if the sign protrudes into walkways.
• Wall and door signs should be located at a 1.60-meter maximum height and 1.40-
meter minimum height.
• Signage should have raised symbols, letters, or numbers, with a minimum height
of 1mm. Moreover, in signifying public and safety routes, braille symbols can be
used.
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7. CROSSINGS
• Minimizing vehicular traffic, all grade crossings should be:
a. Close perpendicularly to the carriageway.
b. Situated at the narrowest and most convenient part of the carriageway.
c. Central refugees of at least 1.5m in depth and 2m preferred, which will
serve as a mid-crossing shelter, where the carriageway width to go across
exceeds 10m.
d. All pedestrian crossings should be positioned or near to, if not on the
normal pedestrian design line.
e. Tactile blocks or surfaces should be provided as an aid to blinds. It must
be appropriately high to be sensed by the sole but not cause injury or
danger to pedestrians.
f. Anywhere possible, pedestrian phases and synchronized audible signals
should be provided in preference to other types of crossings.
• The Traffic Engineering Center will be in charge to develop easily distinguishable
sounds to avoid confusion for the blind.
• Walking speed of the disabled should be considered. Hence, a steady green period
for pedestrians should not be less than 6 seconds or 0.90 m/sec crossing distance.
B. Parking
1. PARKING AREAS
• Enough space for a wheel-chaired person to easily transfer from a vehicle.
• Must be positioned in high accessibility areas or entrances.
• Be perpendicular or to an angle to the road or circulation aisles.
• A minimum width of 3.70m.
• Walkway from accessible spaces of 1.20m clear width.
• Have dropped curbs or curb cut-outs where access walkways are raised.
• For the handicapped, there should be pavement markings, signs, or others.
• Parking spots for the disabled must not be positioned at ramped or sloping zones.
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Figure 14.8. Parking Area
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Figure 14.9. Entrance and Ramps
3. DOORS
• A minimum clear width of 0.80m for all doors.
• Clear openings must be measured between the surface of a fully open door at the
hinge and the door jamb at the stop.
• Applying pressure or force of not more than 4.0kg, doors should be able to open.
• The minimum clear level space of 1.50m x 1.50m before and beyond a door must
be provided.
• Doors that swing in corridors should be protected. Moreover, storage rooms,
closets, and accessible restroom stalls should install out-swinging doors.
• No wrist action or fine finger manipulation in latching and non-latching hardware.
• Doorknobs and other hardware should be placed between 0.82m and 1.06m
above the floor, but 0.90 is preferred.
• For swing doors or doors with locking devices, vertical pull handles placed at
1.06m above the flooring are preferred to horizontal pull bars.
• Must be provided along major circulation routes having kick plates made of sturdy
supplies at a height of 0.30m to 0.40m.
4. THRESHOLDS
• The thresholds and sliding door tracks should have a maximum height of 25 mm
and a ramp.
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Figure 14.10. Doors and Thresholds
5. SWITCHES
• Manual switches should be placed within 1.20m to 1.30m above flooring, and be
located not more than 0.20 meters from the latch side of the door.
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6. SIGNAGES
(Kindly see “SIGNAGES”, under OUTSIDE AND AROUND BUILDINGS)
7. CORRIDORS
• A minimum clear width of 1.20m is needed in corridors.
• Recesses and turnabout spaces must be provided. It must have a minimum area
of 1.50m x 1.50m and be spaced at no greater than 12.00m.
• Every dead end, there must be turnabouts.
• It shall be maintained level and be slip resistant.
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Figure 14.13. Washrooms and Toilets
9. STAIRS
• To minimize slipping, tread surfaces should be a slip-resistant material and nosings
should be equipped with slip-resistant strips.
• Slanted nosings should be utilized rather than projected ones to avoid difficulty for
people with crutches or braces. Also, avoid using open stringers.
• Runners and risers should be marked with paint or non-skid material that contrasts
with the rest of the stairs to aid visually impaired persons.
• Installing tactile strips 0.30m wide shall be posted or mounted near to unsafe
places.
10. ELEVATORS
• It should be located 30.00m away from the entrance with location signs.
• It must have a minimum dimension of 1.10m x1.40m.
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• Control panels and the emergency system should be within the reach of a seated
person; between 0.90m to 1.20m from the floor has to be the centerline heights
for the topmost buttons.
• To indicate floor levels, braille-type signs should be placed at door frames or
elevator doors to aid blind persons.
• The minimum diameter for button sizes at elevator control panels has to be
20mm and 1mm maximum depression depth.
D. Safety
1. FENCING FOR ROADWORKS AND FOOTWORKS
• All excavations should be protected whether on road or footway.
• Top of the rail should be at least 1.00m high above the adjacent surface. It should have
a tapping rail not greater than 0.35m to aid blinds.
• It should offer sufficient resistance and no gaps between adjoining fence lengths.
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• The effective width of footways past any obstruction should be greater than or equal
to 1.20m. Further to that, loose materials on footways have to be properly enclosed
and prevented from encroaching onto the main footway by a kickboard with at least
0.20m.
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