scholarly journals The design and build of 'special needs' housing for developmentally and physically disabled persons

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Aquino

Concept/needs of user -- Planning context -- Support services -- Organizations involved -- Design process -- Regulatory framework & community interaction -- Management process -- Appendix A: Typical case study: "Group home in North York" -- Appendix B: Questionnaire: client information profile -- Appendix C: Problem identification matrix -- Appendix D: Group homes, Metropolitan Toronto, 1987 -- Appendix E: Group home operator's neighbourhood dialogue guidelines -- Appendix F: Solicitor's certificate #1 -- Appendix G: Initial project submission "560" -- Appendix H: Project application "1414" -- Appendix I: Standard budget package (Ministry of Community & Social Services) -- Appendix J: Design illustrations -- Appendix K: Metropolitan Toronto Draft Official Plan; Policies -- Appendix L: Management plan (city of Toronto Fire Department) -- Appendix M: Housing types.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Aquino

Concept/needs of user -- Planning context -- Support services -- Organizations involved -- Design process -- Regulatory framework & community interaction -- Management process -- Appendix A: Typical case study: "Group home in North York" -- Appendix B: Questionnaire: client information profile -- Appendix C: Problem identification matrix -- Appendix D: Group homes, Metropolitan Toronto, 1987 -- Appendix E: Group home operator's neighbourhood dialogue guidelines -- Appendix F: Solicitor's certificate #1 -- Appendix G: Initial project submission "560" -- Appendix H: Project application "1414" -- Appendix I: Standard budget package (Ministry of Community & Social Services) -- Appendix J: Design illustrations -- Appendix K: Metropolitan Toronto Draft Official Plan; Policies -- Appendix L: Management plan (city of Toronto Fire Department) -- Appendix M: Housing types.


Author(s):  
Tecle Team

Deinstitutionalisation of Kew Residential Services (KRS) residents proceeded group by group and took place from October 2002 to April 2008. Residents relocated into either newly built or pre-purchased houses located across Melbourne. In Australia and other developed countries, limited studies suggest that people with intellectual and physical disabilities relocated into group homes have poor social integration into a community.This presentation is based upon findings from a quantitative research project aimed to investigate neighbours’ attitudes towards people with intellectual and physical disabilities living in the Inner Southern Region of Melbourne, who relocated to group homes after closure of KRS. The administered check list questionnaire contained three main parts, including (1) participants’ socio-demographic details, (2) information and strategies neighbours being introduced with the group home people, and (3) the Interaction with Disabled Persons (IDP) Scale. A total number of 290 participants whose properties located in the Inner Southern Region of Melbourne were randomly identified for participation in this study. The collected responses were analysed, applying descriptive statistics, bivariate analyses, trivariate analysis, and multivariate analyses.The results of bivariate analyses revealed a statistically significant association between frequency of face-to-face contacts with the group home residents and neighbours’ attitudes towards them, indicating that neighbours who had contacts with the group home residents on a daily/weekly basis had more positive attitudes towards them than the neighbours who had contacts on a less frequent basis. Other variables that were identified as important in bivariate analysis were age, marital status and employment status, and were used in multivariate analysis.


2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Rossow-Kimball ◽  
Donna Goodwin

This phenomenological case study examined the leisure experiences of five women with intellectual disabilities (ages 44–60) in two group homes. Using participant observation, artifacts, and semistructured interviews, the nature of the women’s leisure experiences were understood within the conceptual framework of self-determination. Five staff members were also interviewed to further contextualize the women’s leisure experiences. Thematic analysis revealed three main themes: leisure at home, leisure in the community, and leisure with family and friends. Leisure was experienced differently in each group home, largely due to staff-created input into leisure choices. In one group home, leisure was supervised; in the other, independent leisure was encouraged. The study highlights the importance of promoting self-determined leisure for those approaching retirement age.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
John Harner ◽  
Lee Cerveny ◽  
Rebecca Gronewold

Natural resource managers need up-to-date information about how people interact with public lands and the meanings these places hold for use in planning and decision-making. This case study explains the use of public participatory Geographic Information System (GIS) to generate and analyze spatial patterns of the uses and values people hold for the Browns Canyon National Monument in Colorado. Participants drew on maps and answered questions at both live community meetings and online sessions to develop a series of maps showing detailed responses to different types of resource uses and landscape values. Results can be disaggregated by interaction types, different meaningful values, respondent characteristics, seasonality, or frequency of visit. The study was a test for the Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service, who jointly manage the monument as they prepare their land management plan. If the information generated is as helpful throughout the entire planning process as initial responses seem, this protocol could become a component of the Bureau’s planning tool kit.


Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Andreja Đuka ◽  
Zoran Bumber ◽  
Tomislav Poršinsky ◽  
Ivica Papa ◽  
Tibor Pentek

During the seven-year research period, the average annual removal was by 3274 m3 higher than the average annual removal prescribed by the existing management plan (MP). The main reason lies in the high amount of salvage felling volume at 55,238 m3 (38.3%) in both the main and the intermediate felling due to oak dieback. The analysis of forest accessibility took into account the spatial distribution of cutblocks (with ongoing felling operations) and the volume of felled timber for two proposed factors: (1) the position of the cutblock and (2) the position of the removal. Cutblock position factor took into account the spatial position of the felling areas/sites, while removal position factor besides the spatial reference took into account the amount of felled timber (i.e., volume) both concerning forest infrastructure network and forest operations. The analysed relative forest openness by using geo-processing workflows in GIS environment showed four types of opening areas in the studied management unit (MU): single-opened, multiple-opened, unopened and opened areas outside of the management unit. Negative effects of the piece-volume law and low harvesting densities on forest operations are highlighted in this research due to high amount of salvage felling particularly in the intermediate felling by replacing timber volume that should have come from thinnings.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 1270
Author(s):  
Minyoung Kwon ◽  
Erwin Mlecnik

Web portals have the potential to promote sustainable environmental ideas due to the capacity of digital media, such as easy accessibility, openness, and networking. Local authorities (LAs) are responsible for activating carbon savings in homes, and they are key actors when it comes to providing neutral information to their citizens. Local authority web portals may thus create environmental awareness, particularly regarding owner-occupied single-family home renovation. Nevertheless, the experiences of LAs developing web portals have rarely been studied. Therefore, this paper analyses the development process of various LA web modules and investigates how LAs foster modular web portals to stimulate the adoption of home renovation with parameters to assess LAs’ actions in terms of the management of web-modules development. A homeowner renovation journey model is applied to map current local authority developments. Case study research and interviews were done to analyse and evaluate the adoption of modular web portals developed and tested by six local authorities in four countries in Europe. Based on the development and use of the modular web portal, lessons have been derived emphasising the importance of co-creation, integrating with offline activities, and a strategic management plan.


1978 ◽  
Vol 192 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
B. B. Hundy ◽  
S. Broadstock

The use of aluminium alloy instead of steel for the structural components of a 32 ton articulated lorry has been examined. The probable manufacturing difficulties have been assessed and shown to be minimal. The savings in weight possible by using aluminium have been calculated from a structural analysis of the cab, tractor chassis and trailer and from this and an assessment of the manufacturing processes the extra cost of manufacturing in aluminium has been determined. A typical case study shows that this extra cost can be easily recovered by utilising the increased load capacity of the vehicle during the first few years of its life.


2016 ◽  
Vol 711 ◽  
pp. 783-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Muciaccia ◽  
Andrea Consiglio ◽  
Gianpaolo Rosati

Typical applications for post-installed rebar connections consist in overlapping joints with existing reinforcement or anchoring of the reinforcement at a slab or beam support. At cold state it may be shown by testing that a post-installed rebar system can develop the same bond resistance with the same safety margin as cast-in-place rebar. Consequently, anchorage length and lap length for post-installed rebars can be calculated as for cast-in-place according to the Eurocode 2 provisions. However, when subjected to temperature, the decay in bond properties for post-installed systems is significantly more dramatic than for cast-in-place rebars. The paper presents the result of an experimental campaign carried out on a post-installed connection using a vinylester polymer, investigating the effects on the bond strength both of the temperature and of different testing conditions. Finally, design criteria are provided and applied to a typical case study consisting in a post-installed solid slab.


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