Sydney Access Consultants Promoting participation that is interwoven into everyday life Sydney* Coogee* Mid North Coast* (NSW) Brisbane* (Qld) Perth )WA)* Kuala Lumpur*
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.
Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA)
Gary Finn, the architect has worked in the design documentation and delivery of public and social housing developments since the inception of his practice in 1993. He prepared designs and documentation of community health and development projects in remote indigenous communities throughout NSW until around 2005 when the NSW government commissioned the firm to design and document Group Homes for people who live with disabilities.
Disability Access to Child Care Centres
Over the last 30 years, I've designed Child Care Centres for both the private and public sector, around 20, I guess. They each have one common thread, namely, good access. Mothers with prams and a toddler in tow, vehicular movement and safe separation for daydreaming pedestrians, consideration for the circulation spaces required by groups of people moving together, shower and toilet facilities for those little accidents, with all the space required for a teacher to assist in the cleanup...
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
We are accredited assessors and expert architects in the design of Specialist Disability Accommodation proposed to be enrolled in the NDIS
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
We inspect and prepare sensible Performance Solutions for DDA compliance in a broad range of public and private sector developments.
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
Meet Our Professionals.
Gary Finn
Coogee Beach Branch
Daniel Wong
Hurstville Sydney Branch
Sandy Gray
Mid North Coast Branch NSW SYDNEY ACCESS CONSULTANTS (MALAYSIA) PLT
Business
Assessing your building plans for "suitable access"
- What is Suitable Access?
- How to Proceed
- Fee Proposals
Firm Details
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.