BP 344

• Accessibility law


  An act to enhance the mobility of disabled persons requiring certain buildings, institutions, establishments, and public utilities to install facilities and other devices
• Disabled people


  • Confinement to wheelchair
  • Requiring use of braces, crutches, artificial supports
  • Impairment of hearing or sight
  • Aging and in coordination
  • Acquired or congenital mental impairments
• Accessibility


  • The built environment shall be designed so that it shall be accessible to all people
  • Means that no criteria shall impede the use of facilities by either the handicapped or non-disabled citizens
• Reachability


  • Provisions shall be adapted and introduced to the physical environment so that as many places of buildings as possible can be reached by all
• Usability


  • The built environment shall be designed so that all person, whether they be disabled or not, may use and enjoy it
• Orientation


  • Finding a person's way inside and outside of a building or open space shall be made easy for everyone
• Safety


  • Designing for safety insures that people shall be able to move about with less hazards to life and health
• Workability and efficiency


  • The build environment shall be designed to allow the disabled citizens to participate and contribute to developmental goals
• Building classification by use of occupancy category

  • Residential
  • Commercial
  • Educational and industrial
  • Agricultural
  • Ancillary
• Architectural features and facilities

  • Rule 3
• Special type of facilities

  • Rule 3
• Accessible units


  • Rule 3
• Barrier-free facilities and features

  • Rule 4
• Title


  • Rule 4
• Declaration of policy


  • Rule 4
• Scope and application


  • Rule 4
• General building requirements


  • Rule 4
• Site requirements


  • Rule 4
• Definitions


  • Rule 4
• Designated seats near doors

  • Regular buses
• Seats near door


  • First class, premiere & air con bus
• Seats per car nearest the door

  • Passenger trains
• Seats preferably front seats

  • Jeepneys
• Domestic shipping: allocated on per class basis; give priority during embarkation and disembarkation
• RA 7277 is the magna carta for disabled persons
• Person liable


  • Owner
  • Contractor
  • Architect
  • Engineer
  • Building official or public official
• Minimum width or same width as crossing

  0.9 m
• Max height of curb

  6 mm
• Curb cut-outs should only be allowed when it will not obstruct a walkway or in any way lessen the width of a walkway
• Minimum width of a curb cut-out

  0.9 m
• Elements of walkways and passageways

  • Continuous curb (dropped curb)
  • Planting strip
  • Street furniture
  • Grass area
  • Defines edge of walkway
• Light controlled, audible crossings with pedestrian phases and signals are most beneficial to the disabled; they should be provided wherever possible
• Whenever and wherever possible, walkways should have a gradient not more than

  1.2 meters or 5%
• Minimum height handrail


  1 meter
• Tapping rail


  0.35 meters
• Minimum rest stop or turning space

  1.5 meters by 1.5 meters
• Max length walkway


  12 meters
• In lengthy or busy walkways, spaces should be provided at some point along the route so that a wheelchair may pass another or turn around; these spaces should have a minimum dimension of

  1.5 meters by 12 meters
• Zebra crossing should be brightly painted
• Tactile surfaces should be provided at vicinity of crossing