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3. Scope

This Code specifies a range of requirements for many of the elements of construction,
assemblies, components, vehicles and fittings that comprise the built environment and
transport services.

These requirements relate to the external environment, such as public open spaces, as
well as access to buildings, to circulation within buildings, to egress from buildings, as
well as public transport system’s vehicles, elements, stations and equipment.

The requirements are to be applied during the design, construction, renovations, and
alteration of sites, facilities, buildings, and elements of the built environment and
transportation systems, to the extent required by regulations issued by the Emirate of
Dubai under Law No. 2.

This Code does not apply to individual dwellings, only to common parts of multi-
occupancy residential buildings. However, it includes a section addressing requirements
for new convertible housing.

Nothing in these requirements prevents the use of designs, products, or technologies as
alternatives to those prescribed, provided they result in substantially equivalent or
greater accessibility and usability.

The dimensions stated in this Code are primarily based on adults, but it includes
specifications that address the requirements that should suit children and people with
different heights. If a facility is primarily to serve children, dimensions and other
provisions should be adjusted to make them suitable for children.

Dimensions are given in metric units. All dimensions in figures are given in meters or
millimetres and are measured to the centreline, unless otherwise specified.

The purpose of Section C, Accessible Transport, is to give guidance when creating
transportation systems that support equitable access and ease of travelling for all
persons regardless of their social, economic, physical, sensory or cognitive capacity.

Section C focuses on issues of Universal Accessibility and usability for persons with
functional limitations and should be used together with the other sections of this Code.

Section D, Wayfinding, establishes the minimum requirements for providing information
for orientation and navigating the public realm and buildings.

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