The surfaces of the accessible route on a site or within a building or facility must be designed to provide slip-resistant locomotion for both level and inclined travel by persons with disabilities...
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What values are recommended for ground and floor surfaces along an accessible route?
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Accessible Routes
Accessible Routes Accessible routes are continuous, unobstructed paths connecting all accessible elements and spaces of a building or facility....
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Surface [1017.2]
DESIGN TIP—Building a firm and stable surface A firm and stable surface does not always mean concrete and asphalt....
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Congressional Findings of Discrimination
Access Board to supplement the accessibility guidelines developed earlier for the Architectural Barriers Act to include “additional requirements, consistent with this Act, to ensure that buildings...
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R211 Signs (Section-by-Section Analysis)
the technical requirements for minimum height above the ground and line spacing (see 703.5.6, 703.5.9, and 810.4). 38The ANSI approved standard “ICC A117.1‒2009: Accessible and Usable Buildings...
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R204 Pedestrian Access Routes (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Pedestrian access routes in the public right-of-way also connect to accessible routes at building and facility site arrival points.27 Pedestrian access routes must be provided within:...
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Organization of This NPRM
equipment, wheelchairs and other power-driven mobility devices, auxiliary aids and services (including captioning and video interpreting services), and certification of state and local building...
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The ADA and Department of Justice Regulations
requires newly constructed or altered places of public accommodation--as well as commercial facilities (privately owned, nonresidential facilities like factories, warehouses, or office buildings...
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Summary of Key ADA Facility Requirements for Private Entities
Private entities must also check all state and local disability access laws, building codes and zoning ordinances to determine where they are stricter than ADA requirements....
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104.1.1 Construction and Manufacturing Tolerances
Information on specific tolerances may be available from industry or trade organizations, code groups and building officials, and published references....
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Additional Design Specifications for Requirement 1
accessible route is practical when (1) there is an elevator connecting the parking area with any floor on which dwelling units are located, and (2) an elevated walkway is planned between a building...
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C. Getting Started
When inside the building, locate the areas where people are likely to register, sleep, and eat. Locate the toilet rooms that serve the shelter area....
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11B-603.2.3 Door swing
Also, avoid violating other building or life safety codes when the door swing is reversed. 2. ...
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68.31. Variance Procedures
A separate Variance Application form shall be submitted for each TAS standard within a single building or facility....
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Visual Alarms
accessible guestrooms and a specific number of additional guestrooms for use by persons who are deaf or hard of hearing must be equipped with visual fire alarm strobes that are connected to the building's...
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11B-403.3 Slope
There is an important distinction between a “sidewalk” and a “walk”, and they are treated differently under the California Building Code....
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1132A.4 Level floor or landing
In buildings containing covered multifamily dwelling units, the floor or landing immediately outside the entry may be sloped up to ¼ inch (6.35 mm) per foot (12 inches) (305 mm), in a direction...
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11B-213.2 Toilet rooms and bathing rooms
Where exceptions for alterations to qualified historic buildings or facilities are permitted by 202.5, no fewer than one toilet room for each sex complying with 603 or one unisex toilet...
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Water Closet Clearance
Numerous comments noted that this requirement is already included in other model accessibility standards and many state and local building codes and its adoption in the 2010 Standards is...
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Tiles
Improper drainage from the landscape in the retaining wall was causing a build-up of silt on and under the tiles. ...
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Background
These problems include increased construction costs, unnecessary demolition and rebuilding, litigation, uncertainty, and - too often - animosity among members of the building team, regulatory...
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General Comments (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
Department to incorporate as its accessibility standards the ANSI standard’s technical provisions and to adopt the proposed scoping provisions under development by the Council of American Building...
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Providing Comforts and Conveniences—Constructed Features
Section 5 "Buildings in Recreation Sites" addresses requirements for buildings that are not included in ABAAS, such as camp shelters and pit toilets....
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Legislation
The Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 (ABA) ensures that buildings which are designed, built or altered by federal funding or leased by federal agencies are accessible to the public....