Webinar: Beyond Part M: Universal Design and Accessibility Legislation

On the 01 October 2024, CEUD hosted the second in a series of lunch time webinars as part of the Universal Design in the Build Environment series. This webinar, Beyond Part M: Universal Design and Accessibility Legislation waspresented by Tom Grey who emphasized legislation beyond Part M of the building regulations, which architectural professionals should be aware of in their everyday practice.

You can watch the recording of this webinar below. ISL interpretation and captions are included. 

Following this webinar, you should have:

• Awareness of a range of legislation, outside building regulations, that relates to Universal Design and accessibility in the built environment
• Knowledge of key sections of the Disability Act 2005 relevant to architectural practice
• Understanding of the difference between the minimum requirements of the building regulations and Universal Design

Tom Grey, TrinityHaus

Tom graduated from DIT Bolton Street in 1998 with an honours degree in Architecture. He moved to New Zealand in 2003 to complete a two-year master’s in architecture (Sustainability of the Built Environment) at the University of Auckland. With over 10 years in architectural practice working on projects in Ireland, the UK, Croatia, the US and NZ, Tom joined TrinityHaus Research Centre in Trinity College Dublin as a Research Fellow in 2009. Since then, he has undertaken a variety of urban design and building design research projects exploring the relationship between the built environment and accessibility, inclusion, resilience, and sustainability. All these projects are underpinned by people-centred design, Universal Design, co-creation, and stakeholder engagement. (See: https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=greyt and https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3705-8666)

Watch the webinar below.