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Accessability

Accessibility Access auditing

- Ryan & Associates, have extensive knowledge in carrying out access audits. Our team of qualified auditors have carried out audits on a wide variety of buildings ranging from leisure, health care to office buildings. Accessibility and Fire Safety tie hand in hand.

Disability Proofing and Design Appraisals

- Ryan & Associates can work as part of your design team from initial briefing of a project to the post occupancy evaluation stage of a project. We have worked with a number of design teams to ensure access is an integral part of all stages of the project from preliminary, design, tendering, construction and handover of works. Accessibility and Fire Safety tie hand in hand.

Disability Access Certificate.

- Ryan & Associates assist in the design and development of Disability Access Certificates. Our services include: - reviewing the proposed design to ensure that the design complies with existing building regulations (Part M) and best practice (Building for Everyone; BS:8300 etc.). - provision of information and feedback to the design team on the key access requirements. - preparation of a report showing compliance with Part M and demonstrating how the building and approaches are accessible. This allows the Building Control Authority to assess whether the proposed plans and other particulars will comply with the requirements of Part M of the Second Schedule of the Building Regulation.

The Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.1. No 351 of 2009) came into effect on the 1st of October 2009. It is necessary to obtain a Disability Access Certificates from the 1st January 2010.

- Disability Access Certificates (DAC) - Building Control Authorities will have to certify that the designs of new non-domestic buildings and new apartment blocks comply with Part M (Access for People with Disabilities) of the Building Regulations, before work commences on the relevant projects. The application for a DAC will have to be accompanied by a site plan or layout plan to which the application relates. The plans should:
- Include identification of the works and a description of the building.
- Enable the Building Control Authority to assess whether the proposed plans and other particulars (if constructed in accordance to the plans) will comply with the requirements of Part M of the Second schedule of the Building Regulations
- Identify the nature and extent of the proposed use and where appropriate, of the existing use of the building concerned.