Gary Renick | March 13, 2009
Principle Five Tolerance for Error Ideally, the building’s design should eliminate, isolate or shield any design features that could prove hazardous or inconvenient to any user. When potentially dangerous conditions are unavoidable, users should receive warnings as they approach the design feature (e.g., providing proximity warnings in a variety of sensory modes near the top [...]
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Gary Renick | January 23, 2009
What is Universal Design It
is a set of design criteria
developed to allow for
people to age in place.
Now this means that as we
get older and less able to
do the things we used to
do,
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Gary Renick | January 23, 2009
What do you mean Visitable
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Gary Renick | January 21, 2009
What a difference a day
makes. Twenty four hours
ago we swore in the 44th
president of the United
States. How full of hope
we are for the future. A
new generation has taken
the rains of power
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Gary Renick | January 12, 2009
The other day I wrote about people who park in handicap spaces that shouldn’t. Well that just reminded me of another pet peeve of mine. That is so called handicapped restrooms that are not really. There are several different type of what I like to call “Handicap bathroom want to be’s” . The first is [...]
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