The Livable Housing Design Guidelines provide the opportunity for many designers, developers and accommodation providers to expand their markets by building houses and apartments that can offer long term homes for the whole community, regardless of age, ability or changing life circumstances.

This course is ideal for people who have responsibility for reviewing, planning, designing, managing or maintaining buildings, as well as those who are required to provide advice to others regarding access issues in the built environment.

The key elements of access to buildings, including relevant legislation and Disability (Access to Premises – Buildings) Standards 2010 are incorporated. The nationally recognised course provides participants with a practical framework and tools for undertaking an access audit of a building.

This highly acclaimed course provides students with the skills required to provide advice on access to the built environment, as well as services and programs for people with a range of access challenges, including people with disabilities, older adults, emerging Baby Boomers, parents with prams and families.

This course will provide Building Surveyors with a significant ‘point of difference’ to their peers and competitors when it comes to understanding and assessing access compliance in buildings.

It provides essential knowledge and skills related to the ‘Why’s’ of Access’ and provides an understanding of the rationale behind the access requirements of the Building Code and the Australian Standards for Access and Mobility. It includes all of the units of competency of the Certificate IV in Access Consulting as well as others to support a higher level understanding and application in the ‘real world’ environment.

This course has been specifically adapted for Building Surveyors and candidates must be able to demonstrate Recognised Prior Learning or Credit Transfer for some specific units of competency.

This course has been specifically adapted for Occupational Therapists and candidates must be able to demonstrate Recognised Prior Learning or Credit Transfer for some specific units of competency contained within CPP50711 Diploma of Access Consulting.

This course will provide Occupational Therapists with a significant ‘point of difference’ to their peers and competitors when it comes to understanding and assessing access and Universal Design in the built environment.

The course includes twenty units of competency required for qualification as an Access Consultant. It will be of enormous benefit to people and organisations with responsibility to improve access to buildings, facilities, parks, streetscapes, playgrounds and open spaces.

This includes government staff, building certifiers, architects, building designers, asset managers, occupational therapists, educational institutions, hospitals and other organisations.

This course is ideal for people who have responsibility for reviewing, planning, designing, managing or maintaining buildings, as well as those who are required to provide advice to others regarding access issues in the built environment.

The key elements of access to buildings, including relevant legislation and Access to Premises Standards are incorporated. The nationally recognised course provides participants with a practical framework and tools for undertaking an access audit of a building.

This course has been specifically adapted for Building Surveyors and candidates must be able to demonstrate Recognised Prior Learning or Credit Transfer for some specific units of competency.

This talk is part of the 'Building Accessibility' series and discusses the need to provide an inclusive approach to building design and evacuation planning, to meet the needs of all occupants. Australian society is changing, we are living longer, extending our working lives and increasingly making our homes in taller buildings. Additionally, in 2011 building and disability legislation changed to make it mandatory to provide fully accessible workplaces and public spaces. However, the need to get everybody out in an emergency has generally been overlooked. This presentation argues a case to develop the concept of egressability to go hand in hand with accessibility.

Access Performance Solutions, Part 1 - History, Development & Modern Day

This talk is part of the 'Building Accessibility' series for Access 101. The 1.5-hour talk discusses the background of performance-based design (PBD) (Performance Solutions) and how we now have a National Construction Code that allows a prescriptive compliance path, or a performance-based compliance path, or a combination of the two.

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The presentation outlines the development of PBD, economic benefits, factors for the success of PBD, issues in recent years with PBD and how the Australian Building Code Board (ABCB) has embarked on a campaign to increased acceptance and awareness of PBD.