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Adaptable and Visitable Housing: Affordable and Sustainable Changes
Sustainable development has attracted considerable interest from residential communities to `green' existing homes and build new sustainable ones. The focus is on the reduction of energy consumption and environmental impacts of the built houses. This paper takes the issue of human/societal factors, especially the visitability, into consideration in developing sustainable houses. Visitability refers to a specially designed house that allows people with disabilities to visit and live in. This paper emphasizes the importance of visitable housing and discusses probably the biggest barrier—potential cost increases in construction. A list of visitable and accessible housing features is given to help homeowners and building practitioners select the most appropriate features for their specific projects with no or minimal cost increases. This paper delivers an important message to the general public and building professionals that making specific changes initially can not only reduce the cost of housing renovations for people with disabilities but also allow the homes to be sustainable considering long term human dynamics. It also calls for the support from legislators and home developers for this movement.
Adaptable and Visitable Housing: Affordable and Sustainable Changes
Sustainable development has attracted considerable interest from residential communities to `green' existing homes and build new sustainable ones. The focus is on the reduction of energy consumption and environmental impacts of the built houses. This paper takes the issue of human/societal factors, especially the visitability, into consideration in developing sustainable houses. Visitability refers to a specially designed house that allows people with disabilities to visit and live in. This paper emphasizes the importance of visitable housing and discusses probably the biggest barrier—potential cost increases in construction. A list of visitable and accessible housing features is given to help homeowners and building practitioners select the most appropriate features for their specific projects with no or minimal cost increases. This paper delivers an important message to the general public and building professionals that making specific changes initially can not only reduce the cost of housing renovations for people with disabilities but also allow the homes to be sustainable considering long term human dynamics. It also calls for the support from legislators and home developers for this movement.
Adaptable and Visitable Housing: Affordable and Sustainable Changes
Johnson, Lisa M. (author) / Chen, Qian (author)
Construction Research Congress 2009 ; 2009 ; Seattle, Washington, United States
Building a Sustainable Future ; 588-597
2009-04-01
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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