Monday, March 28, 2011

Do Architects, Engineers, Contractors Understand the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?

In the opinion of ACCESSS the answer is no. 

My fellow architects undertanding maybe 35%, engineers 30% and contractors 20%.  That is not a very good adverage when ADA is Civil Rights Law and Civil Rights Law is required to be known and understood by all citizens.  ACCESS is well aware that some building owners hire these professional for ADA retrofit work and the result is not ADA compliance.  The ACCESS "Wheelchair Watchdogs" program requires an ADA architect's input at each step along the path of ADA building complaince; the ADA audit, The ADA archtect input for solutions, the ADA plan check of the architectural/engineering ADA retrofit permit drawings, the ADA costing of the ADA retrofit permit drawings and finally the ADA arcitects audit of the ADA retrofit construction with a cerfiticate of ADA compliance. 

This progarm assures building owners that ADA professionals are solving his ADA non-compliance properly with money being spent wisely.

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