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TWICE Breakfast Seminar


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Join the TWICE Committee for a Breakfast Seminar on Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Location: Stantec Consulting,  500 – 311 Portage Avenue

Time: 8:00 – 9:30am

Cost: $15 (plus gst) Breakfast is included.

Speakers: Brian Everton and Judy Redmond will speak on “Inclusive Design”.

This presentation will include a discussion on the use of the term, Inclusive Design and how it can be applied within the various standards (codes, regulations, standards, policies). Differing strategies such as ’barrier-free’, ‘Accessible Design’, ‘Universal Design’ and ‘Inclusive Design’ that affect the design of the built environment will be discerned.  An overview of these various strategies and the regulations, standards, or policies that drive or reinforce the need for increased response to meet the needs of a much broader population; the +50% that are left out of typical industries practices.

Paid parking on the street is available on Portage Ave and Hargrave. Centrepoint Parkade entrance is located at 329 Hargrave, with a skywalk to the building on level 2. Take elevators down to the first floor and a TWICE committee member will let you in to the 5th floor.

 

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