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Accessibility 2021: Building an Inclusive Community Engagement Process

This course complies with California licensure requirements for accessibility (SB 1608 and California Business and Professions Code Section 5600.05) and provides essential information about accessibility requirements applicable in most states.

In this 75-minute panel discussion, three accessibility experts focus on how design professionals can facilitate an inclusive community-engagement process that leads to buildings and public spaces that better serve the needs of the disabled community. The panelists discuss how to engage the disability community, how to help agencies prioritize their building expenditures and how to create inclusive spaces based on a diverse set of disability needs and perspectives. Interspersed with personal examples of how the ADA has affected each panelist’s life, this provocative discussion sheds light on why the disability community often states "Nothing About Us Without Us."

Presenter:
Karen Braitmayer, FAIA, Peter Slatin, Karen Tamley

Accessibility 2019: Accessibility and Historic Buildings - San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building

In this 90-minute course, Steven Winkel, FAIA, PE, CASp, walks us through the historic San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building and the inspiring Herbst Theatre. He provides guidance on how to both preserve a building's historic fabric and navigate between the requirements of the State Historical Building Code and the California Existing Building Code.

Viewers will gain a better understanding of the amount of latitude they have in applying elements of the State Historical Code, even in buildings listed only in a smaller community’s register of local landmarks.

This course complies with California licensure requirements for accessibility (SB 1608 and California Business and Professions Code Section 5600.05) and provides essential information about accessibility requirements applicable in most states.

Presenter:
Steven R. Winkel, FAIA, PE, CASp

Accessibility 2019: Design Beyond ADA & Compliance

In this 60-minute course, Peter Slatin, AIA, draws on his experience navigating as a blind person around New York City and discusses how our environment needs to respond to a growing number of people with a variety of disabilities and impairments: vision, hearing, mobility, awareness and memory. Peter also discusses the Elements of Service he created, which consists of Observe, Ask, Listen, Respond and Follow Through, and reminds us that compliance should be the floor, not the ceiling, for addressing accessibility in design.

With his guide dog by his side, Peter addresses some social misconceptions. “It’s important to remember that a person with a disability, for the most part, isn’t feeling afflicted. They are dealing with their challenges, they do it every day.”

This course complies with California licensure requirements for accessibility (SB 1608 and California Business and Professions Code Section 5600.05) and provides essential information about accessibility requirements applicable in most states.

Presenter:
Peter Slatin, AIA

Accessibility 2019: Accessibility for Persons with Visual Impairments - The New San Francisco LightHouse for the Blind

In this 75-minute course, Gilda Puente-Peters, CASp sheds light on designing accessible spaces for persons with vision impairments. After illustrating how visually-impaired people experience environments and demonstrating how people with canes avoid objects, Gilda presents a case study of the San Francisco LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, designed by Mark Cavagnero Associates with consultation from blind architect Chris Downey

This course complies with California licensure requirements for accessibility (SB 1608 and California Business and Professions Code Section 5600.05) and provides essential information about accessibility requirements applicable in most states.

Presenter:
Gilda Puente-Peters, CASp

Accessibility 2019: Persuading Clients - Where Life Safety & Accessibility Overlap

This course complies with California licensure requirements for accessibility (SB 1608 and California Business and Professions Code Section 5600.05) and provides valuable information about accessibility requirements applicable in most states.

In this 75-minute course, Dawn Anderson, AIA, CSI, describes how best to educate clients about accessibility requirements and to gain their strong support for creating an expressive design, art and aesthetic that is based on accessibility, inclusion and equality.

This course is interspersed with diagrams from Chapter 11B of the California Building Code.

Presenter:
Dawn Anderson, AIA, CSI

Accessibility 2017: Accessibility in the Public Realm -- Spend a Day in My Wheelchair

In this 60-minute course, Letrice Sherrillo, AIA, a recent wheelchair user, takes us through downtown San Francisco as she navigates hospitality, retail and public spaces. Viewers will gain a better understanding about how accessible spaces in the public realm often fall short of servicing the requirements of people with different levels of abilities.

As Letrice suggests, “Rent a wheelchair for just one day and your perspective will change, the way you design, not only for accessible design to meet ADA codes, but for overall Universal Design.”

This course complies with California licensure requirements for accessibility (SB 1608 and California Business and Professions Code Section 5600.05),the Texas BOE requirement related to barrier-free design, and provides essential information about accessibility requirements applicable in most states.

Presenter:
Letrice Sherrillo, AIA

Accessibility 2017: Observations From an Accessibility Inspector

In this 90-minute course, Stephen Dolim brings his extensive experience as an architect and accessibility inspector to enlighten us about the most common and frequently misunderstood accessibility violations. After viewing this course, design professionals will better understand how they and building owners can apply an accessibility quality assurance process to eliminate most common oversights and improve accessible design outcomes.

This course complies with California licensure requirements for accessibility (SB 1608 and California Business and Professions Code Section 5600.05),the Texas BOE requirement related to barrier-free design, and provides essential information about accessibility requirements applicable in most states.

Presenter:
Stephen J. Dolim, AIA, LEED AP, CASp, ICC Accessibility Inspector, Founders’ Circle CASI, ACIA-RCI ADA

Accessibility 2017: Universal Design in Single-Family Homes

In this 60-minute course, Erick Mikiten, AIA, a lifelong wheelchair user, takes us on a tour of his award-winning design of the universally accessible wine country residence, and shows us how the seven principles of Universal Design can be seamlessly incorporated into any small or large scale, low or high budget, single-family, multi-family or commercial project.

Viewers will also gain a better understanding of how sustainable design, specifically as it pertains to the indoor environment, overlaps with the goals of Universal Design.

This course complies with California licensure requirements for accessibility (SB 1608 and California Business and Professions Code Section 5600.05),the Texas BOE requirement related to barrier-free design, and provides essential information about accessibility requirements applicable in most states.

Presenter:
Erick Mikiten, AIA, LEED AP

Accessibility 2017: Universal Design in Multi-Family Homes

In this 90-minute course, Erick Mikiten, AIA, wheels us through this 39-unit affordable housing project for people with a wide range of abilities. Erick describes the seven principles of Universal Design and then shows us how he incorporated these into this award-winning projects.

Viewers will gain an appreciation for how to make spaces, furniture and outdoor equipment widely usable to people of different ages and abilities while creating rich and rewarding experiences.

This course complies with California licensure requirements for accessibility (SB 1608 and California Business and Professions Code Section 5600.05),the Texas BOE requirement related to barrier-free design, and provides essential information about accessibility requirements applicable in most states.

Presenter:
Erick Mikiten, AIA, LEED AP