Course Title: California Building Code and Federal Accessibility Requirements

Classification: Technical

Description:
Course Description
This course will present selected California State, and Federal accessibility laws and regulations, and will address selected scoping and technical requirements pertaining to providing minimum accessibility provisions in the built environment.

Course Purpose
Participants will be able to use the 1994 and 2004 Americans with Disability Act (ADA) and 2007 Californias Title 24 to determine the similarities, differences and gray areas.

Applicable Codes	2007 California Building Code (CBC) ADA Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG)
Instructional Materials	Supplied handout 2007 CBC ADAAG

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the course you will be better able to:

Identify the federal and state accessibility laws applicable to a project.

Identify commonalities and differences in the requirements.

Distinguish which requirements are considered more restrictive when differences occur.

Evaluate alternative designs on the original intent of provisions.

Course Outline

• Introduction
• Selected Federal requirements
• Selected California requirements
• Commonalities and Differences
• Summary
• Course Evaluation

Content Provider

• ICC Staff
• Dan Kaiser, Access Services Plus
• CALBO

Content Provider:
ICC

Technical Requirements:
Minimum requirements:

Pentium 100 or greater processor

64 meg ram

56 K modem (DSL, Cable or T1 recommended)