PRACTICES: IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF UD
BY THE KUALA LUMPUR CITY HALL, MALAYSIA (KLCH)
CH’NG GAIK BEE @ DALILAH BEE ABDULLAH
(secretariat for people with disablility of KLCH )
ARCHITECT
INNOVASION AND BUILDING STANDARD UNIT,
URBAN DESIGN AND BUILDING DEPARTMENT
KUALA LUMPUR CITY HALL, MALAYSIA
(UNIT INOVASI DAN PIAWAIAN BANGUNAN, JABATAN
REKABENTUK BANDAR DAN BANGUNAN, DEWAN BANDARAYA
KUALA LUMPUR , TINGKAT 25, MENARA DBKL 3, JALAN RAJA
ABDULLAH, 50350 KUALA LUMPUR , MALAYSIA)
Tel: 603-2617 6551 Fax: 03-26946237
Email: cgb4444@yahoo.com.sg
Cell: 019- 3298169
ABSTRACT
Towards creating a Barrier Free Kuala Lumpur, mechanisms are in the place within the departments in Kuala Lumpur City Hall to spearhead efforts to ensure that compliance to the existing legislation and policies were being made. With reference to Malaysian
Standards 1183 and 1184 which is under the Uniform Building By-
Laws and MS 1331 and a section outlining Barrier Free objectives in
Kuala Lumpur Structure Plan 2020, the efforts to make the city more safe, usable and accessible for disabled people are constantly being made.
OBJECTIVE
This paper have two objectives that is;the social aim - to integrate disabled people into society in order for them to take an active part in society and lead a normal life. To be active, a disabled person should be able to commute between home, work and other destinations. The technical aim is to provide a barrier-free environment for the independence, convenience and safety of all people with disabilities.
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KUALA LUMPUR’S COMMITMENTS
The vision for ‘Kuala Lumpur – A World Class City’ , encapsulates the ambition to make Kuala Lumpur a city that will assume a major global and sub-global role for the benefits of all its communities, workers, visitors and investors.
1.
Provide equal opportunity to all its local population and stakeholders to share in its liveability.
2.
Provide quality of life for its people.
3.
Create quality built environment with priorities to people’s safety and comfort.
POLICIES AND PRINCIPLES
The Draft KL City Plan 2020 has 5 core guiding principles that will frame the Draft Kuala Lumpur City Plan 2020.
Planning principle
These are 5 core principles :
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Planning For Wealth Creation
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Planning For Safety and Comfort
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Planning For Connectivity and Accessibility
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Planning For Greener Standards
• Planning ‘with and for’ the People
ACTS AND GUIDELINES
KLCH as the local government, the authority for Kuala Lumpur; the existing legislation and policies play important mechanisms to create a Barrier Free
Kuala Lumpur. All the departments in Kuala Lumpur City Hall need efforts to ensure that all development must compliance to requirement of the existing Acts . With reference to Malaysian Standards 1183 and 1184 which is under the Uniform Building By-Laws and MS 1331 and a section outlining Barrier Free objectives in Kuala Lumpur Structure Plan 2020, the efforts to make the city more safe, usable and accessible for disabled people are constantly being made.
Barrier-Free Guidelines
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Barrier-free design strives to make the built environment accessible to and useable by all persons. It promotes integration and
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independence through design that is safe, functional and dignified for everyone. Designing a barrier free environment is a design planned according to human needs which includes parent with a stroller, an individual with a visual disability, a person who uses a mobility aid, someone with a hearing loss, a cyclist, an elderly person or disable person on wheel chair.
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A barrier free environment will allow a person with a disability to live more independently within their own home as well as access public buildings and participate in community activities. The purpose of this Barrier-Free Guidelines is a step for the City Hall seriously to implement Barrier Free Environment in any existing, new or current development in Kuala Lumpur. It is also a design guidebook made to provide basic information and data necessary of barrier free environment to the architects and designers.
WAYS IN ACHIEVING BARRIER FREE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Apart from the legal instruments, the summary of mechanism and tools to create barrier free city of Kuala Lumpur as follow:
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Legislation
•
Policies
•
Standards
•
Guidelines
•
Implementation and Enforcement
•
Awareness Training
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Access Officers in Local Government
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Access Advisory Group / Technical Committee
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Access Inspectors (individuals/NGOs)
All implementor departments in the KLCH shall always has these design criteria in mplementing all developments in Kuala Lumpur:
1.
Policy
2.
Adaptation and renovation starting within KLCH buildings
3.
Implementation of PWD Act 2008
4.
Universal design approach
5.
Pilot projects for all implementor departments
6.
Access audits for existing and new developments
7.
Access Consultants (professionals/training)
CHALLENGES AND ’BARRIERS’ a) Maintenance
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b) Coordination and collabortion between all utilities agencies and authorities c) Periodical enforcement d) Public awareness- society, developers, users (vehicles owners, traders, contractors) e) continuity f) financial g) Existing localities and constraints h) Private commitments
CONCLUSION
Efforts to create barrier free environment and infrastructure for the urban population whilst to ensure a sustainable development require continuous manouvres an endless commitment from the various level in the governments, NGO and the private sections. DBKL desires to work closely with all relevent organization individuals of Kuala Lumpur to realise the success of the vision of KL structure plan 2020 towards a world class city ambition by year 2020.
These divine intentions to create barrier free environment can be achieved through vigorous and collaborative effort from all section to provide the
PWD the physical and infrastructure facilities in the urban environment in coperating designs into the building interior, spaces between buildings, open spaces, parks and recreational use areas,market places, school public halls, the roads/walkways, commercial spaces and etc. we actually build the environment for our own future use, when we are old now. Simply said, woman, are temporary PWD when she is pregnant and injury occur, a person may need to use callipse.
Therefore ,may I call upon you to have a paradigm shift in our thought on the need to create this barrier free environment for all to use, and may
Allah bless you, insya ALLAH …please let me access t o heart to be together in changing the Kuala Lumpur into barrier free city.
REFERENCES
MS 1184: 2002 – Code of Practices On Access For Disabled Persons To
Public Buildings (First Revision) (2002): Department of Standards
Malaysia, SIRIM.
MS 1331: 1993 – Code of Practice For Access For Disabled People Outside
Buildings (1993): Department of Standards Malaysia, SIRIM.
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“
Biwako Millenium Framework for Action towards an Inclusive, barrier-free and Rights-based Society for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the
Pacific”
Paradorn Tanyapan (2003) – Accessibility, Regional Training Course of
Trainers on the Promotion of Non-handicapping Environments for
People with Disabilities, APCD, Bangkok, Thailand.
Government of Western Australia; (1999),
“Access – Helping to Remove
Physical and Social Barriers to Full Participation by all People in the
Community of Ryde
”; Ryde City Council; Australia.
Government of Western Australia; (1996),
“Access – Resources Kit : With
Checklists To Improve Access For People With Disabilities”;
Disability Services Commission.
Ar Choo, G. W. (2007, February). Design for Barrier Free
Architecture.
Berita Akitek, PAM , p. 1.
Mesyuarat Majlis Penasihat dan Perundingan Kebangsaan Bagi Orang
Kurang Upaya, ( Social Welfare Department, 2009 http:// www.worldenable.net
. http:// www.nationsencyclopedia.com
.
Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (PWDs) & optional
Protocol to the Convention on the right of PWDs, 2006
Akta Jalan, Parit dan Bangunan19749 (Akta 133).
Undang-undang Kecil Bangunan Seragam 1984.
Akta Perancangan Bandar dan Desa 1976 (akta 172) Akta Perancangan dan
Desa (Pindaan ) 1995 (Akta A 33).
Garis Panduan “Building Requirement for Disable” oleh Jabatan Kerajaan
Tempatan, tahun 1999.
Garis Panduan “Building Requirement for Disable” oleh JabatanPerancang dan Desa, tahun 2000.
Piawaian Malaysia, MS 1183; 1991 Code of Practice for mean of escape for disabled persons to Public Building.
Designing a barrier free city, Interim report of Kuala Lumpur Local Plan.
Polisi Kerajaan Terhadap Golongan Orang Kurang Upaya di Malaysia oleh
Prof. Madya Dr. Asiah Abdul Rahim pada 25hb. Julai 2000 di Penthouse
(Tingkat 30), Bangunan DBKL, Jalan Raja Laut, 50350 Kuala Lumpur.
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Perancangan Bagi Golongan Kurang Upaya di Kawasan Bandar oleh Dr.
Jamalunlaili bin Abdullah pada 26hb. Julai 2000 di Penthouse (Tingkat 30),
Bangunan DBKL, Jalan Raja Laut, 50350 Kuala Lumpur.
THE FUTURE OF KUALA LUMPUR 2020 Menara Kuala Lumpur,
Monday 22 August 2005, at 12.00nn to 2.30pm by Datuk Bandar Kuala
Lumpur.
FACILITIES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT 2005:;THE
GOVERNMENT’S ROLE IN FACILITIES MANAGEMENT-Effective
Facilities Planning and Management Conference on 12 th
September 2005,
The Sheraton Imperial, Kuala Lumpur.
Purpose of the Study
 Approach and/or Methodology
 Results or Expected Results
 Conclusion
 Topic Code: Please choose one topic code for each abstract submission (see Abstract
Categories
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1. OBJECTIVE
This paper have two objectives that is;the social aim - to integrate disabled people into society in order for them to take an active part in society and lead a normal life. To be active, a disabled person should be able to commute between home, work and other destinations. The technical aim is to provide a barrier-free environment for the independence, convenience and safety of all people with disabilities.
In 2002 government had gave commitment in the BIWAKO
MILLENNIUM FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION TOWARDS AN INCLUSIVE
BARRIER-FREE AND RIGHTS-BASED SOCIETY FOR PERSONS
WITH DISABILITIES IN ASIA AND PACIFIC to achieve 75% ‘barrierfree” environment in 2012. City Hall Kuala Lumpur will take the lead in achieving that vision.
2. INTRODUCTION
Kuala Lumpur is a multi-cultural city that truly reflects an Asean city.
The Malays (41%) and Chinese (39%) almost equally share the majority population in the City while the Indians comprise of 10%, followed closely by the foreign population at 7%. Such trend will continue until 2020 when Kuala Lumpur population grows to 2.2 million.
Kuala Lumpur has a small proportion of elderly residents. Only 4% of the residents are 65 years and above whilst its persons with disabilities account for only 1.13% of the City’s population. Though the number is small, Kuala Lumpur will ensure that facilities and accessibility for this small group of residents is comfortable and the
City is reachable especially to public spaces and buildings.
The target group is composed of five major categories:
(a) Wheelchair users
(b) People with limited walking abilities
(c) The sightless
(d) The partially sighted
(e) The hearing impaired
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Type of disability
Vision Impaired
2003
1525
% 2004
13 1601
18 2284
%
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17 Hearing Impaired 2131
Physically
Handicap
3573 30 3971
Mental
Learning Disorder
(LD)
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Othes total
4538
-
-
-
11,757
39
-
5322
-
20
-
-
1
100 13,199
Ratio with population –
1,379,310 (2000)
Ratio of PWD per
1000 population
0.85%
8.52
0.95%
9.57
30
-
40
1
0.1
100
1.13%
11.27
2005*
1703
2501
4435
%
11
16
28
-
6851
-
44
61
2
15,553 100
0.3
9
0.1
3. K
UALA LUMPUR’S COMMITMENTS
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The vision for ‘Kuala Lumpur – A World Class City’ , encapsulates the ambition to make Kuala Lumpur a city that will assume a major global and sub-global role for the benefits of all its communities, workers, visitors and investors.
4. Provide equal opportunity to all its local population and stakeholders to share in its liveability.
5. Provide quality of life for its people.
6.
Create quality built environment with priorities to people’s safety and comfort.
KLCH has social obligation in providing facilities and services to the city society from womb to the tomb:
Stages involve as follow:
1. Pra and Post natal maternity checkup
2. After birth
– imunisation for babies and children
3. nursery
4. kindergarden
5. Guidance class for primary and secondary students
6. Intensive guidance class for examination
7. Programmes and activities for teenagers
8. Sport and community centre
9. Club for elderly people
10. Grave yards and plus others services:….
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Maternity & Pediatric Clinic
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Public Parking
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Sports Complex
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City Theatre
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Neutering Services for Animals Online Services
 e-Complaint
 e-License
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Real Time Traffic
 e-Services
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Examination System (SPPI)
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Develoment Control System
 myTempahan
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
Sistem Semakan PembayaranMobile Servis
7. IMPLEMENTATION
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The Kuala Lumpur Structure Plan 2020 (KLSP 2020) emphasizes that the Vision and goals of Kuala Lumpur have been formulated with the aims of creating a sustainable city with Kuala Lumpur City Hall
(KLCH) ensuring that the planning for Kuala Lumpur will strike a balance between physical,economic, social and environmental development.
Draft Kuala Lumpur City Plan 2020 (Draft KL City Plan 2020) is
KLCH’s primary planning and development strategy. It is the draft local plan for Kuala Lumpur prepared under provision of section 13 of
Federal Plan sets out a twelve year plan on what must happen to achieve the vision for the City of Kuala Lumpur in 2020. This will guide decision makers, city planners, designers and builders the direction of growth for Kuala Lumpur and lead the City into a World
Class City status.
4.1 KUALA LUMPUR IN 2020
Kuala Lumpur - A World Class City’ - This vision is a commitment that by the year 2020, the City of Kuala Lumpur will have made many positive changes to the physical environment without compromising the local environment and its ecology. It also commits to create a liveable and attractive environment for residents, businesses and visitors.
The Draft KL City Plan 2020 has adopted a set of strategic directions to realise this vision and they are centred on the five main goals of the
KLSP 2020.
Goal 1
To enhance the role of Kuala Lumpur as an international commercial and financial centre.
Goal 2
To create an efficient and equitable city structure.
Goal 3
To enhance the city living environment.
Goal 4
To create a distinctive city identity and image.
Goal 5
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To have an efficient and effective governance.
These goals are the framework for Draft KL City Plan 2020, in which its greatest challenge is the implementation of the goals and policies to achieve environmental, social and economic development simultaneously; where the improvement of one shall not be to the detriment of the other. The
Draft KL City Plan 2020 integrates land use with transportation to ensure transportation network are economically viable and physically accessible. It also integrates land use with environmentally sensitive areas to ensure protection of sensitive areas as well as control the environmental quality of the City.
4.2 POLICIES AND PRINCIPLES
The Draft KL City Plan 2020 has 5 core guiding principles that will frame the Draft Kuala Lumpur City Plan 2020.
Planning principle
These are 5 core principles :
• Planning For Wealth Creation
• Planning For Safety and Comfort
• Planning For Connectivity and Accessibility
• Planning For Greener Standards
• Planning ‘with and for’ the People
Planning For Wealth Creation
Kuala Lumpur core business and financial zone is strengthened by not limiting it to the once famous ‘Golden Triangle’. The Draft KL City
Plan 2020 identifies a Premier Business and Financial Zone for Kuala
Lumpur that will enhance the financial and business cluster in Kuala
Lumpur. It would induce the growth of supporting financial, professional and business activities in and around this core area.
Planning for Safety and Comfort
Kuala Lumpur priority is to ensure that it is a safe and comfortable city, i.e. where everyone feels at ease and is able to do business, work, live and play in the city in peace, free from threat of crime, violence or intrusion. The Plan focus upon protecting the natural environment, enhancing the built environment, conserving of culture and heritage to
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create an image that is uniquely Malaysia, providing quality parks and open spaces and facilities for all age groups of the community.
Planning for Connectivity and Accessibility
Draft KL City Plan 2020 has planned for a comprehensive network of public transportation system for the city. The main aim is to make
Kuala Lumpur a well-connected city, enhancing accessibility and improving reachability. This will be done through integrated land use development with transportation planning and development, which will encourage development to grow in a smart manner i.e. in areas that is well served and accessible by public transportation.
Planning ‘For and With’ the People
Kuala Lumpur is a city that houses 2.2 million populations and provides employment to 1.4 million people. The City will thus ensure that whatever it plans, builds or develop are what the people wants and needs. As a city that responds to the changing needs of the city, it will be ‘Inclusive’ i.e. where it enables the people to participate fully in
Kuala Lumpur city life, where social inclusion and liveability are important elements of this City. Kuala Lumpur will also strive to become an ‘Engaging City’ – where it will engage its people to support the city’s activities such as recreation, cultural and social event, festivals, sports activities, etc for the greater benefit of the community.
4.3 Design considerations
Transportation
In order to create a city that is highly accessible for all its residents and users, in particular, one that is pedestrian and handicapped friendly, existing road space shall be reclaimed for implementing bus lanes, transit malls and barrier free pedestrian pathways. And in order to achieve a long term target modal split of 60% using public transport by the year 2020, an integrated approach and measures has been aligned for implementation by Draft KL City Plan 2020.
Housing
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Kuala Lumpur is home to 1.6 million people (2006) and this is expected to grow to 2.2 million by the year 2020. With more than
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464,996 homes today, the housing sector is fast growing and contributes significantly to the urban footprint of the City.
Strategic Direction
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Providing Housing for Special Groups
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Promoting Inner City Living
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Increasing Residential Population Distributing Densities
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Providing Quality Living Spaces
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Adopting Safe Community Guidelines
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Promoting Sustainable Principle in Neighbourhood Planning
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Providing quality and Sufficient Community Facilities
Providing Housing for Special Groups
Housing needs for ‘Special Group’ communities include housing for persons with disabilities, singles and the ageing population. These special group communities, though a minority, comprise of about 1% of the City’s population. In making the City liveable, providing housing for this group is important and efforts should include partnership with various parties to ensure this community’s needs is not neglected.
Making residential developments accessible and habitable by all members of the community.
In creating an inclusive community for the City, it is important to make residential development accessible and habitable by all groups of the community. Adopting universal design principles in residential development would not only make i t accessible for the special group but for all walks of communities. Thus residential development in Kuala Lumpur must meet the mobility standards of people with disability especially the affordable residential development as well as the non-market residential. Provisions for these standards can be applied as follows:
• 1.2% of total units or 4 units for every 350 units are designed to accommodate the needs of this special group community.
• For apartment type residential – Ground floor units must be built to mobility standards i.e. accessible to people with disability.
• Provision of ramps from public use areas (car park, corridors, etc) to the main door of the unit must be provided.
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• Units to comply with Standard in MS1331:2003 Code of Practice for
Access of Disabled Persons outside Buildings must be complied.
• Certification of Fitness (CF) shall not be issued unless the developments incorporate the above.
Communities facilities
Ensure adequate provision of facilities at the appropriate locations
It is important that all new development provide adequate facilities at locations which are within the walkable distance of a community.
Community Facilities to be provided in the Neighbourhood includes: i. Community Library ii. Multi-Purpose Hall ii Post Office iv. Bill Paying Facilities v. Surau vi. Clinic i. Recreational Facilities ii. Police Beat iii. Day Care Centre iv. Food Court v. Information Centre vi. Retail and Office vii. Public Toilet
Tourist Friendly City
As a tourist friendly city, Kuala Lumpur shall undertake to improve the facilities and to upgrade the supporting amenities for tourists.
• Making Kuala Lumpur a tourist friendly city.
• Expanding MICE facilities.
• Promoting Kuala Lumpur as a regional centre for educational tourism.
• Enhancing urban heritage tourism
• Developing sports and recreational to strengthen local tourism.
• Creating strategically located visitors’centres in the City to provide information and guide tourists.
8. ACTS AND GUIDELINES
KLCH as the local government, the authority for Kuala Lumpur; the existing legislation and policies play important mechanisms to create
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a Barrier Free Kuala Lumpur. All the departments in Kuala Lumpur
City Hall need efforts to ensure that all development must compliance to requirement of the existing Acts . With reference to Malaysian
Standards 1183 and 1184 which is under the Uniform Building By-
Laws and MS 1331 and a section outlining Barrier Free objectives in
Kuala Lumpur Structure Plan 2020, the efforts to make the city more safe, usable and accessible for disabled people are constantly being made.
The following below are acts and guidelines related :
• Town and country planning act 1976 (Act 172) include amended act 1995 (Act A 933)
• Federal Territory (Planning) Act 1982 (Act 267)
• Street, drainage and building act,1974 (Akta133)
• Uniform building by- law, 1984
• Guideline of “Building Requirement for Disable” by Local
Government Department, 1999
• Building Requirement for Disable by JPBD, 2000.
• Malaysia standard, MS 1184;1990
Code of Practice for access for disabled persons to Public
Building
• Malaysia standard,, MS 1331;1993
Code of Practice for access for disabled persons to Outside
Building
• Malaysia standard,, MS 1183;1991
Code of Practice for mean of escape for disabled persons to
Public Building
• Designing a barrier free city, Interim report of Kuala Lumpur
Local Plan
• PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ACT, 2008
8.1 Barrier-Free Guidelines
• Barrier-free design strives to make the built environment accessible to and useable by all persons. It promotes integration and independence through design that is safe, functional and dignified for everyone. Designing a barrier free environment is a design planned according to human needs which includes parent with a stroller, an individual with a visual disability, a person who uses a mobility aid, someone with a hearing loss, a cyclist, an elderly person or disable person on wheel chair.
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• A barrier free environment will allow a person with a disability to live more independently within their own home as well as access public buildings and participate in community activities.
The purpose of this Barrier-Free Guidelines is a step for the
City Hall seriously to implement Barrier Free Environment in any existing, new or current development in Kuala Lumpur. It is also a design guidebook made to provide basic information and data necessary of barrier free environment to the architects and designers.
5.2 PWDs Act 2008
• This is the first legal instrument giving official recognition to the rights of PWDs.The Act seeks:
• to provide for the registration, protection, rehabilitation, development and wellbeing of PWDs.
• establishment of the National Council for PWDs.
Part IV: Promotion/Devt of Quality of Life
In compliance with the Act, part IV has important clauses related to achieve accessibility in the built environment:
• Cl. 26: provide PWD right to access of public facilities
• Cl. 27: access to public transport, amenities and services
• Cl. 28: inclusion of PWD in education system and a duty on educational provider to provide reasonable accommodation suitable with requirements of PWD
• Cl. 29: right of access to employment on equal basis. Requires employer to protect of PWD to just and favourable conditions of work and Co.’s role in promoting employment of PWD
• Cl. 30: provides PWD with right of access to information, communication and technology.
• Cl. 31: provides PWD right of access to cultural life and to develop artistic potential.
• Cl. 32: right to participate in recreational, leisure and sporting activities.
9. WAYS IN ACHIEVING BARRIER FREE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
Apart from the legal instruments, the summary of mechanism and tools to create barrier free city of Kuala Lumpur as follow:
• Legislation
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• Policies
• Standards
• Guidelines
• Implementation and Enforcement
• Awareness Training
• Access Officers in Local Government
• Access Advisory Group / Technical Committee
• Access Inspectors (individuals/NGOs)
• Access Consultants (professionals/training)
6.1 PLANNING FOR LONG TERM STRATEGIES
KLCH need to create a new Division of PWD Development as the secretariat to advice and planning in KLCH
• Set up a division within KLCH that liase, monitor and coordinates all infrastructure and utility providers in terms of planning, implementation and maintenance on facilities for
PWD
• Assist service providers in their long term planning by integrating projected demands generated from the proposal of the
Draft KL City Plan 2020 and by monitoring development
Implementation and Distribution. o To conduct workshop and training TOT -Training will provide a better skills at understanding the built environment issues and how do proper Access Audits from surveys and information gathering o Public awareness programmes o PWD to be involved in the planning o Monitoring and liason with others govt agencies and utilities authorities and NGO
The design of the built environment, which includes internal and external of buildings and pedestrian facilities, shall cater for a barrier-free environment to cater for the independence, convenience and safety of all people.This section provides technical considerations and design provisions or measures to be taken into account in the planning of the built-up environment and also highlighted all other facilities that support the barrier free environment. It shall include the followings:
• i. Urban design consideration for barrier free environment
• ii. Designing a barrier free building
• ii. Providing an accessible public transport system
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All implementor departments in the KLCH shall always has these design criteria in mplementing all developments in Kuala Lumpur:
8. Policy
9. Adaptation and renovation starting within KLCH buildings
10. Implementation of PWD Act 2008
11. Universal design approach
12. Pilot projects for all implementor departments
13. Access audits for existing and new developments
6.3 KLCH FACILITIES FOR PWD
The city planning and building and construction legislation, should take into account the conditions that facilitate the movement of disabled persons and ensure their safety, including in the design of infrastructural services, transport and the entrances and interiors of buildings. The first track should aim at influencing the development and reconstruction of the Central Business District (CBD). .
The second track should have the long-term aim of addressing the issue on the national level. At the core, this approach is the development and legal enforcement of standards and regulations. In physical terms, the provision of a barrier-free environment can be undertaken in four complementary domains:
(a) Inside buildings;
(b) In the immediate vicinity of buildings;
(c) On local roads and paths;
(d) In open space
All new development in Kuala Lumpur are control under issuance of
Development Order.Conditions applied in DO request that all development must comply to ms 1184,ms1331,ms1183 that is involve
:
• Approval for building plan must be fullfill requirement on uniform by laws and the guideline in Malaysia Standard regarding facilities for PWD
• Endorcement needed from applicant for PWD facilities being provided
• Thorough checking by the Building Department in KLCH
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For existing building implementation involve :
• Local authority issue notis to building owner
• Owner of building to engage qualify architect to do access audit
• Renovation will be implement as in the report proposal of access audit report
• Endorse of work done by KLCH
Access Survey & Audit
• Checklist based on Malaysian standards
• Using the information gathered to: i. Identify the Problem ii. Record the Problem iii. Provide Recommendation and Solution iv. Costing possible
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CHALLENGES AND ’BARRIERS’ i) Maintenance j) Coordination and collabortion between all utilities agencies and authorities k) Periodical enforcement l) Public awareness- society, developers, users (vehicles owners, traders, contractors) m) continuity n) financial o) Existing localities and constraints p) Private commitments
For Barrier-Free to happen: a) Legislation / Standards / Policies in place b) Different roles and agencies play their part c) Software in place and functioning: Awareness training / disabled people involved in consultation / access officers / access groups / consultants d) Hardware in place: Infrastructure and proper design e) Access audit is an important technique to identify problem areas on access for the disabled on existing buildings so that the owner or building providers can do upgrading and renovation to accommodate accessibility.
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f) Awareness program on access audit should be done continuously to professional and implementor departments such as architects, engineers, town planners, and technical people in the KLCH. g) Barrier free architecture, universal design should be applied in all development. h) To encourage renovation from the private owners dialogs between KLCH and all parties will be proposed. i) Future development should consider continuous accessibility from inside to outside buildings, and accessibility should be provided in all building typologies such as resorts, recreational areas, and schools, shopping complex, office buildings, transportation, airports, ports, religious buildings and others.
This needs coordination and collaboration between various agencies, NGO and private sectors
15. CONCLUSION
Efforts to create barrier free environment and infrastructure for the urban population whilst to ensure a sustainable development require continuous manouvres an endless commitment from the various level in the governments, NGO and the private sections. DBKL desires to work closely with all relevent organization individuals of
Kuala Lumpur to realise the success of the vision of KL structure plan 2020 towards a world class city ambition by year 2020.
These divine intentions to create barrier free environment can be achieved through vigorous and collaborative effort from all section to provide the PWD the physical and infrastructure facilities in the urban environment in coperating designs into the building interior, spaces between buildings, open spaces, parks and recreational use areas,market places, school public halls, the roads/walkways, commercial spaces and etc. we actually build the environment for our own future use, when we are old now. Simply said, woman, are temporary PWD when she is pregnant and injury occur, a person may need to use callipse.
Therefore ,may I call upon you to have a paradigm shift in our thought on the need to create this barrier free environment for all to use, and may Allah bless you, insya ALLAH …please let me access
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t o heart to be together in changing the Kuala Lumpur into barrier free city.
16. REFERENCES
MS 1184: 2002
–
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