The Course:
2 hour Advanced Accessibility Training Module
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Š The advanced 2 hour accessibility training module will address the following:
Š Accessible Route Š Parking Š Vertical accessibility Š Toilet Rooms and Toilet Stalls
Š Building Volume, Editorial Changes Š Plumbing Volume, No Changes Š Residential Volume Accessibility Incorporated Š Base Document (1997 Accessibility Edition) No Changes Š 2004 Access Board Guidelines Not Implemented, Not Law Š Florida Law 553.501-553.513 No Changes
Š FBC Certified Accessibility Code-Chap. 11
„ Fair Housing Accessibility Guidelines-Chap. 11
„ ANSI, A-117.1 Standards –Detectable Warnings Chap. 11
„ FBC Plumbing Code -Chap. 4
Š ASME A-17.1 Elevators Standards Chap.30
Š Educational Guidelines for Children, Chap. 4
Š ADAAG-Current Federal Guidelines Fair Housing
Accessibility Guidelines Š FDOT Guidelines/Standards for Public Spaces Š UFAS -Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards Š 2004 Access Boards Guidelines, not law
Departure from the explicit technical and scoping requirements of this code for any element voids any otherwise applicable presumption of rebuttable evidence that the element has been constructed or altered in accordance with the minimum accessibility requirements of the ADA
Departures from particular technical and scoping requirements of the Code that will provide substantially equivalent or greater access to and usability of the facility shall be provided from public transportation stops, accessible parking, and accessible passenger loading zones, public streets or sidewalks.
Š Width
Š Passing Space
Š Headroom
Š Surface Textures
Š Slope
Š Changes in Level
Š Doors
Š Areas of Rescue Assistance
3/9/2005
Signage
„ Entrances/Accessible Route: These elements shall be connected to public transportation stops, accessible parking, passenger loading zones, public streets or sidewalks.
„ Minimum number: At Least 50% of all public entrances must be accessible. At least one must be a ground floor entrance.
„ Signage: Entrances which are not accessible shall have directional signage to the location of the nearest accessible entrance
Š Changes in Level
Š Changes up to ¼ inches may be vertical and without edge treatment
Figure 7c
Š Required Parking Spaces Š Access Aisle Š Curb Ramps Š Accessible Route Š Passenger Loading Zones Š Signage
Š Required minimum number
„ 1 to 25 = 1
„ 26 to 50 = 2
„ 51 to 75 = 3
„ 76 to 100 = 4
„ 501 to 1000 –2% of total
„ 1001 and over, 20 plus 1 for each 100 over 1000
Š Exterior accessible routes include parking access aisles, curb ramps.
Š Location: Accessible parking spaces serving a particular building shall be located on the shortest safely accessible route
Š All spaces must be located on an accessible route no less than 44 inches wide.
Passenger Loading Zone
„ Curb ramps shall be provided wherever an accessible route crosses a curb.
„ Curb ramps must be located outside of disabled parking spaces and access aisles
„ Handrails are not required
„ EXCEPTION: Curb ramps that are a part of a required means of egress shall be not less than 44 inches wide
Š Maximum slope of flared sides shall be 1:12
Š All Levels Above and Below Occupiable Grade, Fl.Law
Š Elevators (includes “LULAS”)
Š Platform Lifts
Š Code compliance or apply for waiver to Fl. Specific issues.
Š Exceptions to compliance
„ Lube Pits
„ Mechanical Rooms
„ Projection Booths
„ Certain Storage
„ Unoccupiable Spaces
„ Non-Public & Occupiable with 5 persons or less
Š If platform lifts are used, they shall comply with the following: controls and operating mechanisms shall be operable with one hand and shall not require tight grasping, pinching, or twisting of the wrist
Š If platform lifts are used then they shall facilitate unassisted entry, operation, and exit from the lift
Š Non conforming equipment
Š Applies to Existing Buildings only Š Cost does not exceed 20 %of the Cost of Alteration Š Priorities:
„ Accessible Entrance „ Accessible Path of Travel „ Minimum of One Accessible Toilet Room for Each Sex „ Accessible Unisex Toilet Room shall be provided in
accordance with the Plumbing Code, see Chapter 4 „ Accessible Public Telephones „ Accessible Public Drinking Fountains
Figure 17
„ Handrails – 34” to 38” shall extend 18 inches at top and bottom.
„ Any part of an accessible route with a slope greater than 1:20 shall be considered a ramp
„ Landings: Not less than 60” clear
Š The maximum slope of a ramp in new construction shall be 1:12
Figure 16
| Š | The 2004 FBC Building Code |
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| Š | Toilet Stalls |
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| „ | Specific Criteria |
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| Š | Toilet Rooms |
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| „ | Specific Criteria |
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| Š | Protruding Objects |
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| Š | Reach range |
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| Š | Additional related technical requirements for these Sections |
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| Š | The 2004 FBC Plumbing Code |
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| Š | The 2004 FBC Residential Code |
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Š The “Florida accessible stall”: New construction shall contain a lavatory that complies with the Code. The lavatory shall be mounted so as not to overlap the clear floor space areas required.
Š Doors: Shall not swing into the clear floor space of any fixture.
Figure 30c Figure 30d
Rear wall of Standard Side Walls
Figure 30b Alternate Stall
Š Water closet design, not in stalls. See Section on Toilet Rooms
Figure 28
Š Flush valve is on wide side of the accessible water closet Š Grab bars are required
Figure 29a
Š Height of accessible water closets shall be 17 inches to 19 inches measured to the top of the toilet seat.
Figure 29b
Toilet Room -1
Toilet Room -2
