Sandton Central’s HB Connect Meets Accessibility Compliance
13 July 2018
The number of able-bodied executives and employees who sustain sporting mishaps as well as a variety of injuries due to road crashes and the like continue to be on the increase.
Complete venue accessibility is key to ensuring these dynamic executives and management employees are not left behind when it comes to ‘getting around’ and in particular attending and presenting at various conferences, events, exhibitions and board-meetings.
HB Connect are delighted that stringent assessments has proven total accessible functionality
throughout the HB Connect facilities. According to the MD of Cape Town-based Stay Sure Insurance Brokers wheelchair-bound Coert Knoetze ‘HB Connect provides all the requirements for wheel-chair accessibility from the basement under-cover parking to the fully-equipped toilet facilities – no assistance was required of any sort’
Some of the HB Connect access highlights are:
• Access ramps for both basement and open parking independence;
• Suitable Lift/Elevator widths for wheelchair entry/exit;
• Meeting room door-widths allow wheelchair access/egress;
• Total auditorium access;
• Access to front of auditorium for presentations;
All HB Connect facilities are on one level that is: dining, exhibition, reception, bar and private lounges which ensures total access independence. Added to this is the majority of the high human-traffic floor covering are tiles while corridors and meeting rooms including auditorium are short-crop wall-to-wall carpeting – making perambulation a pleasure.
Enquiries can be made by calling the HB Connect operating personnel Dudu or Lara on 011 7897992 for further details. Check out the HB Connect at www.hbconnect.co.za
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