- Author
-
Weber, J.
|
Dibner, D.
- Title
- Implications for Federal Buildings--Safe Environments--What Does it Take?
- Coporate
- General Services Administration, Washington, DC
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
-
NBS GCR 82-383
March 1982
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- NB80NADA1058
- Book or Conf
- AIA Research Foundation. Life Safety and the Handicapped, 1980 Conference. Final Report. October 26-30, 1980,
Washington, DC,
Kennett, E. W., Editors,
62-63 p.,
1982
- Keywords
-
buildings
- Abstract
- Any discussion of the implications of existing and new accessibility regulations on Federal design must begin by putting the subject in context. We are now in the midst of an evolutionary process of ensuring that accessibility is provided in Federal buildings. Until the recent past, General Services Administration, like most organizations, was most concerned with getting handicapped people into our buildings. This was based on the authority to set standards given to GSA under the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968, P.L. 90-480. Under that law, GSA and the other standard-setting agencies, for a long time relied on ANSI A117.1-1961.