SEMINAR 10AC06

2004 Accessibility Guidelines (ADA/ABA)
Six contact hours (CEH’s, PDH’s)
AIA Course Number 10AC06 (6 Learning Units) 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Did you know that the latest Accessibility Guidelines (2004) from the United States Access Board are already Standards for Accessible Design for some federal agencies? The U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) has also adopted the Guidelines as Standards for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), though the Standards and the new ADA Regulations must be printed in the Federal Register before implementation deadlines can be established. The new regulations will address many difficult issues concerning how to apply the Standards to existing facilities, to new construction, and to altered facilities. Seminar 10AC06 will look at the new ADA/ABA Accessibility Standards, as well as, at the USDOJ’s new Regulations in order to help seminar participants understand the significant changes they are likely to encounter when designing for the ADA. The core document for the seminar will be the ADA and ABA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities. 

GOALS: Seminar 10AC06 is designed to help ensure that participants:

   1.  Understand from discussion some of the key differences between the current ADA
   Standards and the 2004 ADA and ABA Accessibility Guidelines;

   2.  Recognize from discussion and exercises some of the difficult problems that can occur
   when standards are updated;

   3.  Understand from discussion and handout material some of the proposed solutions to
   problems with updating standards; and

   4.  Recognize from discussion and handout materials why merging federal accessibility
   standards is so complicated. 

WHAT TO BRING? Each participant should bring a copy of the 1994 ADAAG and a copy of
the ADA and ABA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities. This free document is available for download at http://www.access-board.gov/ada-aba/final.pdf. Each participant
should also bring a calculator, a writing instrument, and an AIA number (if the participant is a member of the AIA). If you are trying to travel “light”, you will be able to follow along well enough with your 1994 ADAAG.
 

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