August 03-04, 2016 | Organized by: Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2016, 9:00am to Thursday, August 4, 2016, 5:00pm
Location: George Gund Hall, Cambridge, MA
CEUs: 14 AIA/CES (HSW) | 14 AICP/CM
Tuition: $1,250.00
Forty-eight years after the Architectural Barriers Act passed, forty-three years after the Rehab Act passed, and twenty five years after the ADA regulations and standards were adopted there are still many questions about how to apply them to the tens of millions of buildings and facilities they cover. Interest in compliance is continuing to increase throughout the country as are the court cases helping to define their application under each of the laws. With ADA obligations and interpretations as the structural formwork for the class, other requirements will be brought in where they are different. This highly interactive workshop with six top instructors will focus on which laws, regulations, and standards apply to various project types, examine trending issues, and explore best practices and universal design concepts that improve usability for everyone. This fresh approach will mix presentations with very small group breakout sessions and exercises to analyze and discuss the difficult access problems that still remain. This two-day session is complemented by the one-day Fair Housing session on Friday.
Learning Objectives:
Recognize which federal accessibility laws, regulations, and standards apply to various facility types & when;
During a walking tour of the Harvard campus in the immediate area of the GSD, understand how to apply the Proposed Public Rights of Way Accessibility Guidelines in the real world;
Differentiate specific definitions for the many terms related to routes, paths, walks, trails, egress, exits, spaces, etc., then learn why those definitions are important;
Learn how to formulate solid interpretations and develop expert witness opinions that will hold up under detailed scrutiny by the courts;
Understand how to recognize and apply tolerances under the ADA, ABA, and Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards;
Understand how to apply safe harbors under the ADA and the provisions for “existing conditions that can remain” under the ABA.
Learn what is happening around the world with the adoption and application of many country-specific accessibility laws and standards.
Participants will have an option to attend dinner with the Instructors at the historic Harvard Faculty Club after the class ends on Thursday Night.
Upon registering for the course, each participant will receive access to an indexed, hyperlinked digital library including over 1,000 access-related documents, a complimentary subscription to Corada.com and a choice of electronic Pocket Guides to the standards.
A 10% discount off tuition is available when you register for both 'ADA, ABA, & 504 Access' and 'Fair Housing' programs. Upon registration to the first program, a promo code will be emailed to you for use on the second program.
Who should attend: Architects, interior designers, engineers, landscape architects, and facility managers.
Bill Hecker, AIA, is an architect and accessibility consultant at Hecker Design, LLC, Birmingham, AL. He has been involved in numerous landmark lawsuits related to the Fair Housing Act, ADA hotel requirements, movie theaters, and curb ramp transition plans. Since 1994 he has been an expert witness for the Department of Justice (DOJ) on the ADA and for nearly a decade as an FHA expert witness for the DOJ's Housing & Civil Enforcement Section.
James L. E. Terry, AIA, CASp, LEED AP, is the CEO and leader of the access-compliance team at Evan Terry Associates, LLC (ETA), a Birmingham, AL, architectural firm. ETA consults with large institutions, corporations, federal, state, and local government clients to help them assimilate accessibility requirements and universal design solutions into their barrier removal, facility design, planning, maintenance, and customer service programs.
Irene Bowen, J.D., is President, ADA One, LLC, Silver Spring, MD, and a nationally recognized ADA consultant, trainer, and speaker. Before starting her firm in 2009, she was Deputy Chief of the Disability Rights Section at the Department of Justice (DOJ), where she oversaw enforcement of the ADA and was actively involved in the development of the ADA accessibility guidelines as well as DOJ’s Title II and Title III regulations. Irene’s clients include state and local governments, colleges and universities, health care providers, other public accommodations, and a Federal agency. She teams with architectural firms and others in assisting entities with self-evaluations and transition plans, and development of cost-effective approaches to compliance. Since 2011, Ms. Bowen has authored or coauthored five ADA guides, presented internationally, and assisted in self-evaluations of Fulton County, Georgia; the City of Chicago; and several universities and health care providers.
More than 30 years ago, Mr. Mazz started his accessibility career with the University of Maryland's Section 504 Transition Plan. Since then, he has been responsible for the accessibility projects in his private practice and in the offices of Edwin F. Ball, AIA, and Celentano Esposito and Associates. Also, Mr. Mazz has collaborated with other nationally known "accessibility firms" including Ron Mace and Barrier Free Environments. His clients include owners, architects, engineers, developers, construction managers, organizations for persons with disabilities, and governmental agencies. His major clients have included the Architect of the Capitol, other Federal agencies, and Howard County Public School System. In his eight years with the Federal Government, Mr. Mazz was an architect in DOJ’s Housing and Civil Enforcement and Disability Rights Sections and the senior advisor on accessibility issues in HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.
More than 70% of his career has focused on accessibility. For the past 15 years, Mr. Mazz has focused exclusively on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Fair Housing Amendments Act (FHA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 504), the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA), and accessible design issues. Prior to federal employment, he belonged to several disability organizations and donated services through the Spinal Cord Injury Network of Metropolitan Washington and Independence Now, Inc. He continues to donate services through the Maryland Disability Law Center. Additionally, Mr. Mazz is a board member of CALMRA, a community based residential service provider for adults with cognitive disabilities.
Marsha K. Mazz is the Director of the Office of Technical and Information Services for the U.S. Access Board in Washington, DC. She has been with the board since 1989 and oversees the technical assistance programs for the ADA and the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA). Her office is responsible for the continued development of the ADA and ABA Accessibility Guidelines, the Section 508 Standards for Accessible Information and Communications Technology, and the Standards for Accessible Medical and Diagnostic Equipment. Her office includes the Board's research, training and technical assistance programs and provides on-line guidance as well as toll-free and e-mail responses to questions about the Board's guidelines and standards. She is the Access Board's representative to the model code organizations and is a member of the ICC/ANSI A117 Committee on Architectural Features and Site Design of Public Buildings and Residential Structures for Persons with Disabilities; and the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA) Disability Access Review Advisory Committee (DARAC). Her prior experience includes service with a center for independent living, as a member of the Maryland State Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities, as a board member for the National Council on Independent Living and as chair of the Washington Metropolitan Area Advisory Committee on Transportation for People with Disabilities.
John Wodatch, Esq., former chief of the Disability Rights Section, Department of Justice, Washington, DC. John is a disability rights attorney who recently retired after 42 years of federal government service. He authored regulations implementing section 504 of the Rehab Act, was the Department of Justice’s chief technical expert during the writing and passage of the ADA, oversaw the development of DOJ’s 1991 ADA regulations, created DOJ’s initial ADA technical assistance programs, and assembled the department’s ADA enforcement staff. From 1990 until 2011 he served as the Director and Section Chief overseeing all interpretation, technical assistance, and enforcement of the ADA at DOJ. Just before he retired, he was responsible for the first major revision of the department's ADA regulations, including the 2010 Standards for Accessible Design. He is now serving clients as an expert in the application of the ADA's requirements for accessible design and program accessibility for state and local governments and private businesses. On the international level, John is continuing his work seeking U.S. ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He received a B.A. from Trinity College, an M.P.A. from Harvard University, and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law School.
Mar 16 - Aug 02, 2016
George Gund Hall, Harvard University
48 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA US