| Direction of approach of wheelchair |
New buildings |
Existing buildings |
| Straight-on (without a turn or oblique approach) |
800mm |
750mm |
| At right angles from an access route at least 1 500 mm wide |
800mm |
750mm |
| At right angles from an access route at least 1 200 mm wide |
825mm |
775mm |
| At right angles from an access route at least 900 mm wide |
N/A |
800mm |
| External doors and internal lobby doors at the entrance of buildings
used by the general public |
1000mm |
775* |
*Where the entire frontage is being replaced, the width for a new building should be used.
Key
1 - Minimum zone of visibility between 500 mm and 1 500 mm above floor level, with maximum interruption
of 350 mm vertically within the zone
2 - Maximum obstruction (X + X + X) no more than 350 mm
Location of door opening and closing furniture - Dimensions in millimetres
Location of door opening and closing furniture - Dimensions in millimetres
| Key: |
Description: |
| 1 |
Cranked pull handle, 19 mm to 35 mm diameter |
| 2 |
Vertical pull handle, 19 mm to 35 mm diameter |
| 3 |
Horizontal pull rail to help people close the door behind them |
| 4 |
Lever handle |
| 5 |
800 mm to 1 050 mm (900 mm preferred) |
| 6 |
Bottom end of pull handle no lower than 700 mm and no higher than 1 000 mm above the floor |
| 7 |
Top end of pull handle no lower than 1 300 mm above the floor |
| 8 |
Fixing centres close to door edge |
| 9 |
Doors with narrow stiles require cranked pull handles with an offset of not less than 50 mm from the door edge |
NOTE 1 - The lever handles and pull handles shown on this drawing will not necessarily be used on the same
face of a door.
NOTE 2 - Although the conventional “D” pull handle is shown in the figure, other patterns of pull handle
are acceptable, provided they conform to the dimensional critera.
