Who Needs an Evac+Chair?

Section 117-120 of the Building Act 2004 stipulates building accessibility standards for people with disabilities — but access is pointless without safe egress! All multi-storied buildings accessible to anyone in a wheelchair or with any impairment preventing use of emergency stairs should be able to evacuate everyone.

Our 2018 Evacuation of Building Regs put much more responsibility on building owners toward total self-evacuation. Fire and Emergency want to manage an emergency, not waste time and men evacuating people who should already be out; they state they cannot guarantee to be at any emergency in time to rescue anyone left behind. Building owners have spent millions meeting "Accessibility Standards" but almost nothing on safe egress. Schemes instructing disabled people to stay behind with a volunteer buddy are no longer acceptable and fly in the face of the Human Rights Act.

Clients include public and private hospitals, councils, most Government Departments (including the Beehive), universities, schools, factories, malls, sports stadiums, airports, cinemas and many other buildings.