POLAND Warsaw Unit banishes barriers

The certification confirms that the building has been adapted for the needs of people with disabilities, reduced mobility, parents with children and older people.

The developer of the building, Ghelamco, has been cooperating with the Integracja foundation since the very beginning of the Warsaw Unit’s development. This allowed solutions to be applied that would not have been possible in later stages of construction.

This is another project on which we have worked closely with Ghelamco. We are pleased that the city's landmark buildings are being constructed with people with disabilities in mind. We do not usually notice the architectural obstacles they face. A door that is too narrow or a small threshold can sometimes be an insurmountable barrier. Fortunately, in buildings such as Warsaw Unit, everyone can get to the top of the building without any problems. Thanks to such places, Warsaw is becoming a friendlier city, more and more open to everyone.
Ewa Pawłowska, the president of the Integracja foundation

Integracja one of the largest organisations in Poland working for the benefit of people with disabilities, which for 27 years has been helping to eliminate architectural, digital and social barriers. For the Warsaw Unit, the foundation singled out, among other features, the wide entrances with doors opening automatically for various groups of users, parking spaces for people with disabilities (which account for more than 2 pct of the total number of spaces in the building), access to all floors by means of lifts, a lift management system equipped with additional features for people with disabilities (including precise voice information) and toilets perfectly designed for people with disabilities, located in common spaces on each office floor.

Warsaw Unit, on the Rondo Daszyńskiego roundabout in the Wola-Centrum business district, was completed in Q2 2021. It contains 57,000 sqm of leasable space on 45 storeys.