Gyeonggi-do Comprehensive Welfare Support Center for the Disabled (hereinafter referred to as Nurim Center) held an advisory committee meeting at the center on the 10th to establish a ‘comprehensive plan for building a universal design model’.
The Nulim Center, built in 2004 as the Gyeonggi Province Welfare Center for the Disabled, underwent remodeling once in 2016 and received an ‘excellent’ barrier-free living environment certification in 2017.
However, as the aging of the building has revealed limitations in terms of convenience facilities such as parking spaces for disabled vehicles and restrooms, there has been a continued need for comprehensive remodeling in line with the perspective of universal design.
This advisory committee was composed of disabled people and universal design experts, including Park Jae-yong, a member of the Health and Welfare Committee of the Gyeonggi Provincial Council, Woo Chang-yoon, president of the Korea Universal Design Association, Choi Bo-yoon, lawyer of the National Integration Committee, tax accountant Cho Bong-hyun, Seongnam City Sheltered Workplace Director Jeong Ki-young, and Able News reporter Park Jong-tae.
The advisory committee members who attended the meeting on this day, together with Lee Ki-pyo, director of the Gyeonggi-do Disability Facilities Promotion Center, looked around the installation status of convenience facilities at the Nurim Center and expressed various opinions on the direction of establishing universal design.
The main contents derived from the advisory committee include separating vehicle access from the external pedestrian area, renovating restrooms that can be used by severely disabled people, installing rain shields for easy use, replacing flooring at the main entrance, replacing fire escape facilities with non-electrically operated elevators, and installing electric vehicle chargers for the transportation vulnerable.
A variety of newly developed opinions were expressed from a universal design perspective, going beyond the existing BF (barrier-free) certification standards, and in particular, Chairman Woo Chang-yoon suggested a plan to remodel the Nulim Center so that it could become a ‘Model House’ of universal design-based convenience facilities for the disabled.
Meanwhile, the Nulim Center plans to establish a comprehensive plan for modeling universal design, starting with an advisory committee meeting.
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