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Consistent
wayfinding Devices

Navigating the built environment creates challenges for people who live with disabilities in the absence of well developed solutions
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Aged Care & Senior's
Housing

People will choose to stay in their own homes for as long as they can, aging in place. There are numerous strategies that can be incorporated unobtrusively, before they are required.
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Playground and Child
Care Access.

These facilities are required to reduce the barriers to access for parents and children who live with disabilities.
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Clear Consistent .
Signage

Signage systems, maps, and accessways need to consider the wide variety of sense that people use to navigate through a building.
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Inclusive .
Education

Education centres are required to accommodate access to education for everyone.
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Inclusive play, travel
and recreation.

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Equal Opportunities and
engaging employment.

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An accessable workplace is
of benefit to everybody

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Good access =
good business.

In NSW 40% of the population are around 60+ years of age and they are more likely to face access challenges. It's simply good business to provide access to your services.
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Symantics

Our Services.

Sydney* Coogee* Mid North Coast* (NSW) Brisbane* (Qld) Perth (WA)* Kuala Lumpur*

We are dedicated registered* architect professionals fully qualified in Access Consulting and we improve accessibility, architecture, interior design and perform project management.

Specialist Disability Accommodation

Specialist Disability Accommodation

We are accredited assessors and expert architects in the design of Specialist Disability Accommodation proposed to be enrolled in the NDIS

Access Consultants

Access Consultants

As accredited Access Consultants and architects with many years of involvement in Construction and Project management, our access solutions are thorough and cost effective.

Performance Solutions

Performance Solutions

We inspect and prepare sensible Performance Solutions for DDA compliance in a broad range of public and private sector developments.

Expert Testimony

Expert Testimony

With a lifetime of experience as an architect and qualifications in construction law, detailed examinations in complex matters are regularly prepared by the Principal Architect

Sydney Access Consultants (Malaysia) Plt

Sydney Access Consultants (Malaysia) Plt

Sydney Access Consultants™ is committed to promoting and facilitating equitable access to the built environment for people with a disability. We achieve this by assisting people to find practical, innovative and cost-effective solutions to access questions encountered in everyday life. We have an established team of Architects in Malaysia
Expert People.

Meet Our Professionals.

Gary Finn

Gary Finn

Coogee Beach Branch
Daniel Wong

Daniel Wong

Hurstville Sydney Branch
Sandy Gray

Sandy Gray

Mid North Coast Branch NSW
SYDNEY ACCESS CONSULTANTS (MALAYSIA) PLT

SYDNEY ACCESS CONSULTANTS (MALAYSIA) PLT

Business
Promoting participation that is interwoven into everyday life. Contact Us
Assessing your building plans for
Audit Designs.

Assessing your building plans for "suitable access"

It might seem obvious that suitable access means different things for different projects. We need to establish the extent of access required for your project so that our advice is targeted at achieving your outcomes. In short, suitable access is access that is suitable to your requirements.
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Firm Details

Suite 7/438 Forest Road Hurstville NSW 2220 AUSTRALIA 02 9586 3111 EAST SYDNEY * SOUTH SYDNEY * NORTH SYDNEY * MID NORTH COAST NSW * BRISBANE *PERTH *KUALA LUMPUR
Our Services.

Our Services & Business.

Association of Consultants in Access Australia Accredited member

The Disability Discrimination Act [DDA] is enforced by the Australian Human Rights Commission [AHRC], through the Federal Courts. The AHRC introduced the Disability Access to Premises Standards [DAPS] in 2010 to assist developers and the building industry broadly, in meeting its obligations under the DDA. The DAPS provides a Disability Access Code, which is no fully encapsulated within the National Construction Code [NCC]. Sydney Access Consultants are experts in interpreting and applying the DAPS and its nuances so that the Performance Requirements of the NCC are met. There are various nuances of the DAPS which provide performance solutions satisfying the NCC, by reference to the intricacies of the various documents provided by the AHRC. In this way, somewhat silly assertions by certifiers of buildings can be avoided, for instance, it is not required to provide Disability Access to the Access Code to and within an office Store Room, even though the Access Code does not specifically exclude it. That is where our expertise comes in. Knowing why an access requirement is imposed, helps us to assist you to meet your objectives under the DDA, without undue hardship. This and other complex strategies, that put a practical nuance on the "written rules", given that we disability access advocates, helps a person with a disability to gain the best outcomes from the built environment.

SDA Accredited Assessor

Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) Design Standards for the NDIS are in transition. Want to know more? The audio content of this video is transcribed here to improve access.

Architect Principal Design Practititoner

The Design and Building Practitioner's Act in NSW regulates the design and construction of apartment buildings, aged care buildings, boarding houses, hostels, student accommodation and Hotels, for instance. Architects that work in this space must be registered design practitioners and follow mandatory processes intended to ensure that the quality issues confronted by strata plans in the past, are avoided.

NCC Livable Housing Design Standards Assessor

As architects with many years in business designing, documenting and constructing livable housing solutions for Social Housing providers as well as private clients, we are highly specialised professionals and our services are available to you in the arduous process that is building procurement. The National Construction Code has adopted elements of the guidelines, as a mandatory Standard fro inclusion in residential developments in an effort to engage developers in the promotion of housing where the home owner can age in place, with disabilities that follow the aging process.

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Symantics is important. It means more than political correctness to get it right.

 

It is also important to keep disability a noun (i.e. the person has a disability)..... for example:

"10 million people and their Disabilities" = Good, exactly what I am talking about.
"10 million disabled people in Australia" = Bad, a person is still a person if they have a disability. A better way to phrase this would be "10 million people with disabilities in Australia". Always put the person before the condition.

A blind person = bad.
A person who is vision impaired = fine.
A person with a visual impairment = bad. That means they're visually ugly doesn't it?
A deaf person = bad.
A person who has difficulty hearing = fine.

Put the person first.

Symantics is important.