Advanced Florida Building Code 8th Edition (2023) Accessibility

This two hour online distance learning course is designed to give the design and construction professional the knowledge and information needed to understand the Federal Americans with Disabilities Act’s (ADA) standards and how the State of Florida has incorporated these standards into its Florida Building Code 8th Edition (2023) Accessibility 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.

Identify important ADA documents including the 2010 Federal ADA Standards and the Florida Building Code 8th Edition (2023) Accessibility Discuss the DOJ code certification process and FL statute Chapter 553 adoption and exception language Describe Chapter 1 changes to section 106 definitions 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

Mr. Martineau is a licensed, registered architect, currently self-employed as facility management consultant (specialties facility planning, programming and maintenance, school safety and security, facilities condition assessment, facilities utilization, school kitchen and cafeteria management). He has conducted or served as team member of over fifty individual consulting efforts with K-12 schools across the United States.

As the President of Productivity house Inc since 1988, Tom has been in charge of market research and consulting services in facilities planning, programming, management, operations and security. In the past he has served as a major consultant to Shimizu Construction Company, 3M Company, AMP Corporation, Battelle Memorial Institute, CPA Associates, Ransomed Productions, MGT of America, and Evergreen Solutions, LLC. He continues to work with Prismatic Services, Inc., and International Making Cities Livable Council.

Tom has also served as a Professor of Architecture from 1985 to 2007. He was Professor and Director, at the Institute for Building Sciences, until 1992, then Professor of Architecture until Fall 2007. As the first full-time IBS Director, he developed and managed research contracts exceeding $1 million. The largest projects included recommendations for restructuring Florida's building construction regulations, and creating a maintenance protocol for the facilities inventory of the Florida Department of Transportation. He also established the first multiclient program on Intelligent Buildings.

As a professor, he taught in the areas of professional ethics, materials and methods of construction, lighting, acoustics, heating and cooling, design studio, and introduction to architecture.

In post-retirement, Tom taught as Adjunct Professor in lighting, acoustics, heating, cooling, and facilities management.