Selecting access consultants
When selecting access consultants it’s important to consider fees and construction industry experience. Our top three criteria for selecting access consultants are:
- qualifications and experience
- Design experience
- availability, and
- fee scale
Selecting Access consultants based on skill-set, qualifications, and experience
This is the number one criteria for selecting access consultants, but most overlooked. Obviously, the skill set that you hire must be the right match for the tasks to be performed. In Australia, we tend to engage our mates or people we think we can work with, but it’s a knowledge-based industry so qualifications are essential.
Most access consultants have Occupational Therapy backgrounds but no building experience, qualifications or understanding of architectural design and practice. Logically one can expect to pay a premium in construction costs for selecting access consultants in the design stage without construction experience. Our clients are mostly builders who tell us time and again that when selecting access consultants they contact us because we know how things are put together.
An access consultant with an Occupational Therapy background is best placed to advise builders and architects on home modifications for people with specific disabilities and age-related conditions. As access consultants with qualifications in architecture, it is our aim is to partner with architects and builders to apply industry experience and qualifications to create unique places that are accessible and universally valued.
Partnering with the design team is the best way to build an early appreciation of the design teams access solutions. We then seek ways to foster the initial concepts through the tactile elements of the building, always confirming the access solutions are consistent with the design objectives.
Our construction industry clients tell us that their obligations to the DDA stretch beyond building occupancy and that’s why they want qualified and reliable advice at the right price.
Selecting Access consultants based on availability, troubleshooting access
The greater part of our work is resolving access issues during construction and this means putting a hard hat on and deliver fast cost effective and buildable solutions to the design and construction team, on site, on time and within critical project schedules.
Selecting Access consultants based on quotes fees and costs
Access consultants usually quote fixed fees based on the anticipated hours to undertake the project. The architectural drawings and a description of the project or a list of issues raised by the building consultants are used to estimate the hours.
The fees for Alternative solutions to the building codes will vary with the number of non-compliances or alternate ideas being proposed. An architect or builder might decide to apply for a list of alternatives which in practice, will be more economical than building the code solution, or else the client wouldn’t proceed.
We aim to make selecting access consultants easy: Our aim is to add value to a project by fostering quality design and quality users experiences. In the process, we seeking ways to incrementally improve the construction schedule and budget so that clients get real value for money when they select from a team of qualified access consultants.
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