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Smartbuild - Creating healthy, affordable homes for better living

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An opportunity to assist your customers with reliable, objective information… Smarter Homes, a new on-line resource which provides advice on how to make homes warmer, drier, healthier, more comfortable, more affordable and kinder to the environment, is in its final stages of development by the team contracted by the Ministry for the Environment in New Zealand. Smarter Homes will be launched at the end of June.

South Carolina Assistive Technology Project (SCATP)

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The South Carolina Assistive Technology Project (SCATP) is concerned with getting technology into the hands of people with disabilities so that they might live, work, learn and be a more independent part of the community. The web site provides information on Assistive technology and links to access the products.

Spinal Times: Home Modifications

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A valuable website for those with spinal cord injuries featuring information on family, leisure, transport, policy, health, careers and much more. The home modification page gives information on topics such as ramps, doorways, kitchens, bathrooms, work areas, safety and access dimensions.

Sportaid: Wheelchairs and Stuff

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Sportaid is an internet based company providing assistive devices to people with difficulties in mobility. They provide sporting equipment both for competitive or social sports and also exercise equipment utilised at home. Apart from this, there are also many products which help facilitate activities of daily living which can increase independence and the quality of life for those living with a mobility impairment.

Standards Australia

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This is an extensive site, reflecting the Standards Australia extensive range of documentation. It is clearly structured and easily navigated and maintains the index at the side of the page.

Sustainable Design - Adaptable House

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The complex network of real and virtual human interaction – at a communal or larger group level – which operates for reasons of tradition, culture, business, pleasure, information exchange, institutional organization, legal procedure, governance, human betterment, social progress and spiritual enlightenment, etc. The Social Environment shapes, binds together, and directs the future development of, the Built (including Virtual) Environment. A Community-Centred approach to Spatial Planning must, once again, become the norm. A general condition - in a community, society or culture - of health, happiness, creativity,responsible fulfilment, and sustainable development.

Swedish Handicap Institute

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The Swedish Handicap Institute (SHI) is a national resource centre on assistive technology and accessibility for persons with disabilities.

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