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From our experience in carrying
out design work on sheltered housing, wheelchair accommodation and work
for disabled students, DCA has developed expertise in carrying out access
consultancy. Work includes access audits of existing
buildings and plan appraisals. These are analysed in terms of their
compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act, which makes significant
demands of employers and service providers who are now obliged to make
permanent adaptations of their buildings.
DCA have discovered that if reviewed
creatively, then making a building accessible need not be a matter of
"bolt-on" components, but can be an integrated approach to make the building
easy to use for everybody, regardless of their abilities.
Examples
of recent consultancy projects:
National Portrait Gallery
Cowdray Park
Wimbledon Theatre
Examples of recent
projects:
Conversion of detached
house, Croydon
Conversion of house,
Kingston-upon-Thames
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