Instructor: Tom Gard

Board: Florida Construction Contractor (FCILB)

Credit Hours: 2.00
Rating:
247 ratings

Approval Number: 0611813
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Course Description


This course is designed to give the design professional the knowledge and information needed to understand how the Federal Americans with Disabilities Act’s (ADA) standards have been updated recently, and how the State of Florida has incorporated these updates in its building code, along with special Florida requirements that meet or exceed the ADA standards. With this knowledge and information, the design professional will be able to comply with the most recent updates to the ADA, and know how to find the Florida requirements to which they also must adhere.



Course Objectives


Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:

  • Identify important ADA documents including the Federal ADA Standards and the Florida
    Building Code 5th Edition (2014) Accessibility as well as discuss the DOJ code certification process and FL statute Chapter 553 adoption and exception language
  • Describe Chapter 1 changes to section 106 definitions and explain Chapter 2 code changes regarding applications, existing buildings and facilities, and accessible routes
  • Summarize Chapter 2 code changes to parking spaces, assembly areas, transient lodging and guest rooms and residential facilities
  • Express code changes of accessible routes in Chapter 4, general site and building elements in Chapter 5, plumbing elements and facilities in Chapter 6 and special rooms, spaces and elements in Chapter 8


Instructor Bio



P.THOMAS GARD, PE, ESQ, PMP
Tom Gard holds a J.D. in Government Contract Law from Catholic University of America, a M.B.A. in Financial Management, Northern Michigan University, a M.S.C.E. in Construction Management from Purdue University, and a B.S. in Urban Planning/Civil Engineering from Michigan State University. He is currently the President of Dominion Project Management, Inc. of Leesburg, Virginia.

 

Mr. Gard is a highly esteemed speaker and writer with regard to engineering management, engineering law and project management subjects. Tom has spoken before the American Bar Association on privatization and various engineering organizations on project management and engineer law topics. He has been published several times in engineering periodicals. He currently is an adjunct professor in the graduate program at George Washington University lecturing and writing on project management topics.



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