Tài liệu TCXDVN 264 : 2002 docx

VIET NAM CONSTRUCTION STANDARD
TCXDVN 264 : 2002
HOUSES AND BUILDINGS ÷ BASIC RULES OF ACCESSIBLE
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
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FOREWORD
TCXDVN 264: 2002 is compiled on the basis of the Ordinance on PWD:
Article 26.- “The investment for new construction or reconstruction of
dwelling houses, of public amenities and for design, manufacture of domestic
furnitures, of transport and communication means ... must take into account the
needs for convenient use by PWD, firstly of mobility and sight PWD, and at the
same time have to comply with construction codes, standards issued by
competent state agencies”.
TCXDVN 264: 2002 is compiled by the Research Institute for
Architecture – Ministry of Construction and Panel for elaborating “Building
Codes and Standards of Construction Accessibility for People With
Disabilities”, submitted by the Department of Science and Technology -
Ministry of Construction, has been approved, signed and issued by the said
Ministry for enforcement.
The Standards have been compiled with the cooperation and financial
assistance by President’s Committee on Employment of People with
Disabilities (PCEPD) and the Vietnam Assistance for Handicapped (VNAH).
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VIETNAM CONSTRUCTION STANDARD TCXDCN 264:2002
HOUSES AND BUILDING - BASIC RULES OF ACCESSIBLE DESIGN
AND CONSTRUCTION FOR PWD.
1. Scope of Application
1.1. This standard is applied in the new construction of works for ensuring the
accessibility and use by mobility and sight PWD.
In cases of need for reconstruction, upgrade of works with requirements for
ensuring accessibility and use by PWD, the regulations of this standard

must be enforced.
1.2. When applying regulations in this standard, the regulations of building
codes ensuring accessibility and use by PWD must be respected.
1.3. It is mandatory to ensure safety on walking paths and facilities for PWD
accessibility to and use of works according to Article 2.1 of Building
codes.
2. Standard cited
- Vietnam Building Codes
- Building code of construction accessibility for people with disabilities
- TCXD 228:1998 - Walking paths for PWD in buildings. Part 1.
Walking paths for wheelchair users. Requirements on design.
3. Terminology - Definition
Terms used in this standard are stipulated in the Building code for
construction in view of ensuring PWD’s accessibility and use QCXDVN
01:2002
4. General regulations
4.1. Requirements on design of houses and buildings for ensuring PWD’s
accessibility and use must be in accordance with regulations in table 1.
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TCXDVN 264: 2002
Table 1: Design components of houses and buildings
Type of buildings
Scope of areas to be
designed for ensuring
PWD’s accessibility and
use
Basic requirements
1 2 3
Different levels of people
committees’ offices,

Tribunal, Prosecutor’s
Institutes , Offices of
State administration
bodies and organizations
- Walking ways, car
parking grounds;
- Entry, exit gates;
- Reception desks and
public activity areas;
- Working seats and
specific equipment
- Arrangement of
structure and function of
building’s parts for
ensuring PWD’s
accessibility and use.
- Meeting, conference
venues needing seat
arrangement for PWD
Culture, sport works
such as: Parks,
entertainment areas,
zoos, theaters, cinemas,
museums, exhibition,
cultural buildings, clubs,
libraries, tourism areas,
vestiges, picturesque
landscapes, stadiums,
sport/gym grounds,
contest halls....

- Walking ways, car
parking grounds,
- Entry, exit gates,
- Reception desks and
public activity areas,
- Emergency escape
when accident occurs
- Helping equipment
- Spectators’ area
- Arrangement of
structure and function of
building’s parts for
ensuring PWD’s
accessibility and use.
- Reading rooms,
spectators’ rooms,
tribunes must be
arranged with seats for
PWD
Public service buildings:
hotels, rest houses,
boarding houses, shops,
and eating/drinking
services, post offices,
trade centers, super
markets, markets, banks.
- Walking ways, car
parking grounds,
- Entry, exit gates
- Reception desks and

public activity areas,
business activity areas,
- Emergency escape
when accident occurs,
- Helping equipment
- Rooms’ area
- Arrangement of
structure and function of
building’s part for
ensuring PWD’s
accessibility and use.
- Lift must be available
on all service storeys.
- At shops, bazaars, there
must be sloping paths in
entry/exit doors, in seats,
reception places.
- Beds, equipment and
facilities must be
arranged in rooms
reserved to PWD
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Public health buildings:
hospitals, centers for
orthopedic and
functional restoration,
disease consultation and
treatment units,
sanatorium centers.
Scope of use by patients - Arrangement of

structure and function of
building’s parts for
ensuring PWD’s
accessibility and use
Educational buildings:
different levels’ primary
schools, vocational
schools, colleges/
universities, specialized
secondary schools
- Walking ways, car
parking grounds
- Entry, exit gates
- Class- rooms, labos.
- Students’ seat places
and specially used
equipment.
- Arrangement of
structure and function
of building’s parts for
ensuring PWD’s
accessibility and use.
- In classrooms, there
must be seat places for
PWD
Collective houses - Walking ways, car
parking grounds
- Entry, exit gates
- Spaces in house interior
- Arrangement of

equipment, furnitures
- Arrangement of
structure and function
of building’s parts for
ensuring PWD’s
accessibility and use
Transport building
works: roads, sidewalks,
stations for vehicles,
railway stations, airports,
passengers’ transport
harbors, car-waiting
spots
Scope of use by
passengers
- Arrangement of
structure and function
of building’s parts for
ensuring PWD’s
accessibility and use
- Lines of ways/paths for
PWD’s accessibility
and circulation

Note:
1) Structure and function of building’s parts comprise slopes, entry/exit
gates/doors, corridors, walkways, staircases, lifts (elevators), toilets,
bathrooms, special public spaces such as seat places, reception desks,
telephone booths.
The concrete arrangement must be based on requirements to define it

properly.
2) Regarding reconstructed works, it must be based on actual state of works for
selecting appropriate solutions.
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3) Regarding works specially reserved to PWD, it is possible to refer to this
standard for adequate design.
4.2. In housing areas, in public buildings or in densely populous zones, it is
necessary to have at least one entrance way for ensuring PWD’s
accessibility and use. The height of entrance way must be the same with
that of the house floor or of the soil surface. If these heights are different,
there must be adequate slope.
4.3. If the entrance way has footsteps, it is necessary to arrange handrails in both
sides so that people who move with difficulty on crutches, on sticks could
walk through.
4.4. In car parking grounds, places must be arranged for PWD’s wheelchairs,
just adjacent to sloping way or to entry/exit path of the buildings. There
must be guiding posts at parking places of PWD’s wheelchairs.
4.5. Lifts in buildings must ensure following requirements:
a) Serving all floors;
b) Convenient entry path for wheelchairs;
c) Clearance dimensions of lift cabin must ensure accessibility and use by
PWD;
d) System of lift’s switchboards must be adequately accessible to
wheelchair users and blind people;
e) There must be handrails at lift cabin walls;
f) In lift cabin there must be sound devices, raised symbols and Braille
raised dots for blind people
4.6. On entrance way, entry path to buildings and in public spaces in buildings,
for ensuring PWD’s accessibility and use, signposts, guiding posts
according to international convention must be arranged and put in easily

visible recognizable places
5. Design requirements
5.1. Sloping ways
5.1.1. Entrance ways to buildings for ensuring PWD’s accessibility and use must
be flat, plane, unrugged, unslippery and without brusque change of level.
Where there is brusque change of level, it is necessary to design sloping
way.
5.1.2. Sloping ways of entrance reserved to PWD using wheelchairs are
calculated for design as follows:
- Slope: - Not over 1/12 for public buildings
- From 1/10 to 1/20 for collective houses.
- Width of sloping way no less than 1,000mm to 1,200mm;
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- Where length of sloping way being over 9,000mm, it is necessary to
arrange landing place. Length of landing place being not less than
2,000mm; landings are arranged with equal distances not exceeding
9,000mm (see fig. 1 and fig. 2)
Fig.1: Slope plan outside the house
Fig.2: Slope plan with landing in the corner
- At the two sides of sloping way, handrails must be arranged. Details
for design of handrails are shown in article 5.6.
Note:
1) When sloping way changes direction, it is necessary to arrange L-form
landing with each length of 2,000mm ....
2) Regarding reconstructed, upgraded buildings, allowed slope in sloping
way in 1/10, and allowed length is 6,000mm
5.1.3. At the top and end of sloping way, it must be a free space with not than
1,500mm long for wheelchair moving.
5.1.4. Balustrade, handrail must be arranged at both sides of sloping way. Where
a side of sloping way has an empty space, then in the lower part of

balustrade, handrail, it is advised to arrange safety relief with height not
less than 50mm or barring fence, see fig.3.
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Fig.3: Safety balustrade of sloping way
5.2. Entry path
5.2.1. For buildings with preservation requirement or buildings where it is
impossible to arrange sloping ways, it is necessary to build entry path with
steps for people having difficulties in moving on crutches, sticks and
blind men. Entry path with steps must ensure following requirements (see
fig. 4)
- Height of steps: less than or equal to 150mm;
- Width of step surface no less than 300mm;
- Not to use half-open steps;
- Landing to be arranged at top step;
- Where there are more than 3 steps, handrails must be arranged on both
sides of steps. Details for design of handrails are shown in article 5.6.
Note: For collective houses, it is permitted that the step height being
120mm to 160mm. Width of step surface: 250mm to 400mm.
Fig.4: Entrance way with steps
1. Smallest dimensions of space before entrance way: 1500mm x
1,500mm;
2. Door of entrance way laid in the gorge of wall;
3. Handrail prolonged at the extremity slope;
4. Handrail prolonged at the end of slope;
5. Entrance way with steps;
6. Sidewalk;
7. Handrail arranged at a height of 900mm;
8. Sloping way with slope of 1/12, 1200mm wide
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5.2.2. Entrance way to hall, corridor with different heights must be arranged

with sloping path. Slope must not exceed 1/12. Width of sloping path
being not less than 900mm (see fig 5,6 and 7)
Fig 5: Perspective of sloping path (wide base)
Fig 6: Perspective of sloping path (prolonged)
Fig 7: Perspective of sloping path with continued sidewalk
5.3. Car parking grounds and car waiting spots
5.3.1. Data for calculating parking places for PWD are as follows:
- Wheelchair, motorbike: from 2,35sqm/vehicle to 3 sq.m/vehicle
- Bicycle: 0,9sqm/each
- Car: from 15sqm to 18sqm/vehicle
Note: Regarding place for car, it is necessary to arrange a clearance space
beside or behind the car for Wheelchair user could ascend and descend.
Width being from 900mm to 1,200mm (for bus, it is 2,500mm). If two cars
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are adjoining, it could be so arranged as having a common space for
wheelchairs in - between (see fig.8)
Fig 8: Dimensions prescribed for a parking place
5.3.2. At car waiting spots, it is necessary to design sloping streaks or sloping
paths ensuring PWD accessibility to transport means. Details for design of
sloping streaks, sloping parks are stipulated in article 5.1.2.
5.4. Doors
5.4.1. Doors in buildings to ensure PWD use must be arranged at convenient and
safe passage ways. Where the building is equipped with lift, doors must
be arranged near the lift cabin.
Note: Doors comprise gate, entrance way without door, entry/exit door to
and from hall.
5.4.3. Inside and outside the door, it must be a clearance space with dimensions
1,500mm x 1,500mm.
5.4.4. If the door comprises two layers, the clearance interval between layers
must be no less than 1,200mm.

5.4.5. It is advised to use doors opening to both sides and automatically opened,
closed doors, pushed doors and rotary doors instead of doors opened by
hand. Not to use too heavy door or many-winged revolved doors. Width
of door being not less than 800mm for houses, 900mm for public
buildings; not to arrange doors close to wall corners.
Note: Force deployed for opening, closing all types of doors shall not
exceed 30N (3Kg.m/s
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) and could open doors up to an angle of 90
0
.
5.4.6. Door knobs must be easily/smoothly operated and close to key holes.
Door knobs must rotate clockwise and arranged at 800mm to 1,100mm
from the floor surface.
5.4.7. Where door opening opposite to the direction of walk path, it is necessary
to arrange a clearance space with a width over 500mm on the side of door
knob/see fig.9)
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Fig 9: Direction for access to door
5.4.8. Not to put door sill or salience on the inner side for door with clearance
space less than 800mm
Note:
1) It is only permitted to put door-sill on the inner side for doors with
clearance space over 800mm, but not with height over 10mm;
2) Modes for opening the door (see fig 10)
5.4.9. Regarding pulled door, slide door, accordion door, the clearance spaces
for each type are calculated according to tables 2, 3.
Note: Regarding building works with doors width exceeding or equal to
1,100mm such as doors of rooms in hospitals, these requirements on
dimensions are not prescribed.

a) Pulled doors: clearance space for wheelchairs as in fig 11.
In case of closed door or locked door, there dimensions are extended with
additional 300mm.
Directly opened doors Both doors opened Doors opened Doors opened to
to inside fron a side tow different
directions
Fig 10: Modes for opening door
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Toward frontal walkway, pull side Toward frontal walkway, push side
Toward hinge walk way, pull side Toward hinge walk way, push side
Fig 11: Clearance space for ordinary pulled doors
Table 2: Clearance space for wheelchair v.s. pulled door
Type of door Clearance space, not less than, in mm
Direction of
walkway
Door face Perpendicular to
door
Under the lock
parallel to the door
From front side Pull 1 500 500
From front side Push 1 200
From hinge side Pull 1 500 900
1 300 1 000
From hinge side Push 1 000 1 300
From lock side Pull 1 200 600
From lock side Push 1 000 600
b) Slide door and accordion door: Clearance space for wheelchair moving
is shown in table 3 and fig 12
Table 3: Clearance space for wheelchair regarding slide door and
accordion door

Direction of walk way Clearance space, not less than (mm)
Perpendicular to door Parallel to door
From front side 1200
12
From hinge side 1000 1300
From lock side 1000 600
Fig 12: Clearance space regarding push-door and accordion door
c) For entrance ways without door: Clearance space for wheelchair
moving with entrance way under 800mm must be 1,200mm.
d) For two opposite doors: Clearance space for wheelchair moving
between the two doors when they are opened toward two different
directions must be not less than 1,200mm plus the width of door.
Doors in the same range/row could be opened to a same direction or
two different directions
5.4.10. Regarding automatic doors, a clearance space of 900mm must also be
ensured. On the face of automatic doors there must be guiding posts,
moreover there must be contact surface on both sides of doors for
warning and also sound signal for blind people.
5.4.11. Door accessories such as knobs, pulling devices, lock blocks, keys and
other details ensuring accessibility and use by PWD must be installed at
a height of 800mm ÷1,100mm from the floor or ground surface.
Regarding slide doors, the accessories of doors must be fit to work from
both sides.
Note: Locks must be used only for security purpose, not for ordinary
activities anywhere.
5.4.12. Time interval for closing/opening door from position of door open 90
0
to
12
0

must not be less than 5 seconds.
5.4.13. Time interval for closing/opening door with spring hinges from position
of door open 70
0
to closing position must not be less than 1.5 second.
5.4.14. Regarding glass door, an arrow must be marked along the vertical
position of door for warning the users. There must be colour contrast
between the wall and the door for easy distinction.
5.4.15.Vision hole arranged on the door must be installed at a height of not more
than 1000mm above the floor level.
5.5. Corridor, passage way
5.5.1. Clearance width of corridor, passage way is as follows:
- For passage of one wheelchair: not less than 1,200mm;
- For passage of one wheelchair and one pedestrian from opposite
direction: not less than 1,500mm
- For passage of two wheelchairs: not less than 1,800mm (see fig.13)
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5.5.2. At the spot where a corridor changes direction, the corridor must be
900mm wide, and 1,200mm wide if there is a door. (see fig.14)
5.5.3. Where at two sides of corridor there is wall salience, the clearance width
must be as stipulated in clause 5.5.1.
Fig 13: Width of passage way
Fig 14: Width of corridor changing direction
5.5.4. Handrails must be arranged in two sides of passage way at 900mm height.
Rotation angle at turning points must be round-arched wall or right angle
wall.
Where at the extremity of passage way or at the end, it appears a level
difference with floor surface or ground, there must be a balustrade, a
shield plate/salience, and safety signpost shall be arranged accordingly.
5.5.5. Clearance dimensions for wheelchair moving in corridor, passage way,

are regulated as follows:
a) Direct, right angle entrance way (see fig 15): clearance dimensions
being 1,200mm x 900mm.
Fig 15: Direct, right angle entrance way
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b) Parallel entrance way (see fig 16): clearance dimensions being 1,500
mm x 800 mm.
Fig 16: Parallel entrance way
5.5.6. On passage ways, it is permissible that salience could be protruded up to
100mm out of the wall and installed at a height of 600mm above the
floor surface, and if they protrude from the ceiling, it is 2,000mm over
the floor surface (see fig 17)
Note: Handrail of staircase and sloping way could be allowed to protrude
at most by 115mm.
Fig 17: Allowed limit for salience in passage way.
5.5.7. Objects being fastened/stuck on axles such as ad posters, public pay
phones, letter boxes.... are allowed to be protruded 300mm on each side
and installed at 600mm and over 2,000mm from the floor surface (see fig
18).
Fig 18: Allowed limit for salience of objects fastened on axles
5.5.8. Passage way with gradually lowered clearance height and less than
2,000mm width must be protected by shield bar. Height for installing
shield bar in at least 700mm from floor surface (see fig 19)
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