ADA Seminar with Mike Gibbens, The Access Guy

THE SEMINAR – In an alteration project, virtually every building department In California enforces the same CBC disabled accessibility requirements differ from one another. It is also common for officials in the same department to disagree on the basic requirements. This seminar displays and discusses the definitive black-letter requirements in both the CBC and ADA for the specific area of alteration and the specific path-of-travel obligations that may or may not be triggered for that particular alteration. Attendees will learn the basic requirements and considerations for compliance in alterations, additions, ADA barrier removal projects and modifications to historic structures. The discussion will include disproportionality, ENR cost valuation threshold, unreasonable hardship, technical infeasibility, safe harbor, landlord/tenant obligations, and the most common misconceptions and errors in the application in the industry.

5 LU/HSW

4 learning objectives for the class:

• Understand the basic accessibility requirements for an Alteration under State and Federal Access Requirements
• Understand the path of travel obligations in an alteration, including when project costs exceed California’s cost threshold limit
• Understand Landlord and Tenant compliance obligations in permitted alterations and for ADA barrier removal project
• Understand where to find, and how to apply, the legally-allowed exceptions and alternative methods for complying with disabled access requirements in the CBC and ADA.

SPEAKER – Michael Gibbens, CASp, ICC, CASI

Mike is a Certified Access Specialist and the author of the best-selling California Disabled Accessibility Guidebook (the CalDAG™). Mike has written 18 books on disabled access compliance, served as expert witness/consultant in well over 1,000 lawsuits, and has served for 18 consecutive years on the Accessibility Code Advisory Committee of the California Building Standards Commission (5 years past as Chairman). As a nationally-recognized expert and consultant in disabled accessibility compliance, Mike has given hundreds of seminars throughout the United States and is one of the most consistently-requested experts in the industry.