Architecture & Access understands the role of local government and its multi-faceted obligations:
Our staff are access experts across a range of professions including work health & safety, access consulting, project management, architecture and design, home modification, landscape design, interior design, and occupational therapy.
Architecture & Access has significant experience providing specialist access consulting, design, OHS and project management to assist local government to create safe and accessible infrastructure, buildings and places for people with disability and the wider community.
We offer an integrated, cross-departmental approach to access service delivery, working directly with you to:
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We can assist you to ensure traders and service providers comply with accessibility requirements where there is a change of use for retail and commercial tenancies, and wherever a building permit is required.
Consulting closely with all stakeholders including planners, people with disability, their families and service providers, we ensure design solutions meet the requirements of universal access and specific community needs.
We can provide advice, design and delivery of accessibility objectives of new developments and renovations including:
Our project managers have extensive experience delivering projects with key accessibility objectives for local government including:
Working with architects and designers, structural engineers, building surveyors and council planners, we ensure your projects achieve compliance with the DDA, National Construction Code – Building Code of Australia, referenced Australian Standards and local planning requirements.
Providing the smoothest possible planning to construction process, we take care of every aspect while keeping people informed of progress.
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Architecture & Access are specialists in Safety in Design and can assists councils to understand and meet obligations under the law.
Our services are concerned with highlighting hazards, assessing risks, recommending controls and evaluating processes to ensure safety is integral to design throughout the life cycle of a building.
Under the Work Health & Safety Act 2011 and Regulations and OHS laws, councils commissioning new work or renovation of an existing structure must consult with the designer to ensure that any risks to work health & safety arising from the design during the construction work are eliminated or minimised.
If the project is a new or refurbished workplace, the council must consult with the workers at the planning stage to ascertain any possible effects on their health & safety posed by the new design and provide this information to the designer.
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Training workshops specifically developed for local government staff with responsibilities to enable access – frontline staff, service providers, architects and designers, statutory planners, building maintenance and asset managers, event managers, capital works and major projects program managers, building certifiers, traffic and parking infrastructure teams, and others include:
We can recommend, design and deliver solutions to create safe and healthy workplaces.
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When you engage with Architecture & Access you can expect:
Contact us for a conversation about your requirements.