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Significant Changes to the ICC/A117.1-2017 ChangesPart - 2

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Objectives

• Overview of the changes to the Technical Requirements

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Part 1:ANSI BackgroundChapters 3-4

Part 2:Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9

Chapter 5 – General Site and Building Elements

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General Site and Building Elements

• Parking• Meters• Electrical Charging

Stations • Accessible Routes

through parking• Stairways

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Parallel parking space

• Where the width of the adjacent sidewalk or available right-of-way exceed 14 feet, an access aisle 60 inches wide minimum must be provided at street level the full length of the parking space and must connect to a pedestrian access route.

• The access aisle must comply with Section 502.4 and must not encroach on vehicular travel lanes.

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Parallel parking space• An accessible route is required from the vehicle level to the sidewalk.

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Parallel parking space

• Alterations: In alterations where the street or sidewalk

adjacent to the parking spaces is not altered, an access aisle is not required provided the parking spaces are located at the end of the block face.

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Parallel parking space

• Narrow sidewalks: An access aisle is not

required where the width of the adjacent sidewalk or the available right-of-way is less than or equal to 14 feet.

Where an access aisle is not provided, the parking spaces must be located at the end of the block face.

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Perpendicular or Angled Parking Spaces

• Where perpendicular or angled parking is provided, an access aisle 96 inches wide minimum must be provided at street level the full length of the parking space and must connect to a pedestrian access route.

• The access aisle must comply with Section 502.4 and must be marked so as to discourage parking in the access aisle.

• Two parking spaces are permitted to share a common access aisle.

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Parking meters and parking pay stations

• Location: At parallel parking spaces, parking meters must be located at the head or foot of the parking space.

• Displays and information must be visible from a point located 40 inches maximum above the center of the clear space in front of the parking meter or parking pay station.

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Electrical vehicle charging stations

• Operable parts on the charging station intended for operation by the user, including card readers, must comply with Section 309.

• An accessible route must be provided from the access aisle adjacent to the parking space to clear floor space complying with Section 502.11.1 adjacent to the vehicle charging station. When the vehicle is being charged, the accessible route must not be obstructed by the cable between the car and charging station.

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Electrical vehicle charging stations

• Protection bollards, curbs or wheel stops must be located so that they do not obstruct the clear floor space required by Section 502.11.1 or the accessible route required by Section 502.11.2.

• Specific sizes for the charging station are not specified. It can be sized for a van or a car.

• Scoping provisions are not provided in the IBC. Some states have specific criteria.

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Electrical vehicle charging stations

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Recommended width – not required. An accessible route is required (exterior = 48 inches).

Charging station cable must not obstruct accessible route.

Electrical vehicle charging stations

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Passenger Loading - Access Aisle Width

• New buildings and facilities In new buildings and facilities, aisles serving vehicular pull-up

spaces must be 67 inches minimum in width. Access aisles must extend the full length of the vehicle pull-up

spaces they serve.

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Passenger Loading - Access Aisle Width

• Existing buildings and facilities In existing buildings and facilities, access aisle serving vehicle

pull-up spaces must be 60 inches minimum in width. Access aisles must extend the full length of the vehicle pull-up

spaces they serve.

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Stairways

• Stairways are not considered part of an accessible route so they do not have any scoping within the IBC.

• Stairways, although they can be part of an accessible means of egress are not scoped from the IBC. The IBC contains requirements within itself.

• Therefore, the following is “best practice” information. It is NOT required to be a part of the design.

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Stairway Nosings

• If beveled, the bevel at the leading edge must slope at 45 degrees to the plane of the top surface of the tread and landing and extend for a horizontal distance of ½ inch maximum.

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Stairway – Visual Contrast

Visual contrast must comply with either 1 or 2.1. The leading 1 to 2 inches of every tread and landing,

measured horizontally from the leading edge of the nosing, must consist of a solid color having visual contrast of dark-on-light or light-on-dark from the remainder of the tread. The contrasting marking must be durable and must extend from one side of each tread to the other side of each tread.

2. Durable distinctive warning markings required by the adopted building code of ANSI safety standards.

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Tactile signage at stair exits

A sign stating “EXIT” in raised characters and Braille and complying with Sections 703.3 and 703.4 must be provided adjacent to each door to an area of refuge providing direct access to a stairway, an exterior area for assisted rescue, an exit stairway, an exit ramp, an exit passageway and exit discharge.

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Accessible Routes through Parking

• Where accessible routes pass through parking facilities, they must be physically separated from vehicular traffic.Exceptions: Accessible routes crossings drive aisles may not be required to

comply with this section Accessible routes only from parking spaces complying with

Section 502 and passenger loading zones complying with Section 503 to accessible entrances may not be required to comply with this section.

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Chapter 6 – Plumbing Elements

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Plumbing Elements and Facilities

• Bottle filling stations• Single occupant toilet rooms• Multi-stall toilet rooms

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Bottle Filling Stations

• A clear floor space positioned for a forward or side approach must be provided.

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• Controls for bottle filling stations must be hand operated or automatic. Hand operated controls must comply with Section 309.

Bottle Filling Stations

• General Exception: Where bottle filling stations are part of the drinking fountain for persons who are standing, the bottle filling station is not required to comply with this section provided a bottle filling station is located at the drinking fountain for persons using wheelchairs.

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OK, if…

Rear-Wall Grab Bars

• The fixed rear-wall grab bar must: Be 36 inches minimum

in length, Be located 6 inches

maximum from the side wall, and

Extend 42 inches minimum from the side wall.

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Toilet Paper Dispenser - General

(Unchanged)• Where located below the

grab bar, toilet paper dispensers shall be located 24 inches minimum and 42 inches maximum from the rear wall.

• The outlet of the dispenser must be 18inches minimum and 48 inches maximum above the floor.

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Toilet Paper Dispenser - Exception

• Toilet paper dispensers that accommodate a maximum of 2 toilet paper rolls of not more than 5-inch diameter each is permitted to be located 7 inches minimum and 9 inches maximum in front of the water closet measured to the centerline of the dispenser.

• The outlet of the dispenser must be 15 inches minimum and 48 inches maximum above the floor.

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Toilet Paper Dispenser - Exception

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Wheelchair accessible toilet compartment

• Where an alternate wheelchair accessible toilet compartment is provided, the minimum area of the compartment must be 60 inches minimum in width, measured perpendicular to the side wall, and 84 inches minimum in depth, measured perpendicular to the rear wall.

• Not scoped…

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Allows 52 inches in front of WC rim, with the front rim of the WC 36 inches from rear wall.

Doors - Exception

• In an alternate wheelchair accessible toilet compartment, the door is permitted to swing into the stall where a clear floor space complying with Section 305.3 is provided within the stall beyond the arc of the door swing.

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Toe Clearance

• The front partition and at least one side partition of wheelchair accessible toilet compartment must provide a toe clearance of 12 inches minimum above the floor and extending 8 inches beyond the compartment side face of the partition, exclusive of partition support members.

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Toe Clearance - Exceptions

• Toe clearance at the front partition is not required in a wheelchair accessible toilet compartment greater than 64 inches in depth with a wall-hung water closet, or greater than 67 inches in depth with a floor-mounted water closet.

• Toe clearance at the side partition is not required in a wheelchair accessible toilet compartment greater than 68 inches in width.

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Toe Clearance – Children’s use

• The front partition and at least one side partition of wheelchair accessible toilet compartment primarily for children’s use must provide a toe clearance of 12 inches minimum above the floor and extending 8 inches beyond the wheelchair accessible toilet compartment side face of the partition, exclusive of partition support members.

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Toe Clearance Exception – Children’s use

• Toe clearance at the front partition is not required in a wheelchair accessible toilet compartment greater than 67 inches in depth.

• Toe clearance at the side partition is not required in a wheelchair accessible toilet compartment greater than 68 inches in width.

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Ambulatory Accessible Toilet Compartment

• Size The minimum area of

an ambulatory of an ambulatory accessible toilet compartment must be 60 inches minimum in depth and a width of 35 inches minimum and 37 inches maximum.

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Urinals – Stall Type

• Depth Urinals must be 13-1/2

inches minimum in depth measured from the outer face of the urinal rim to the finished wall surface.

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Lavatories with enhanced reach range

• New Exceptions: Enhanced reach range faucets are not required

on lavatories provided with automatic faucets where the reach depth to activate the faucets and the reach depth to water outlet is 11 inches minimum.

Enhanced reach range soap dispensers are not required on lavatories provided with automatic dispensers where the reach depth to activate the soap dispensers and the reach depth to the soap outlet is 11 inches maximum.

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Chapter 7 – Communication Elements

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Communication Elements and Features

• Sign contrast• Detectable Warning Surfaces

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Signs - Contrast

• Characters and their background shall have a non-glare finish. Characters shall contrast with their background with either light characters on a dark background, or dark characters on a light background.

• The glare from coverings and the finish of pictograms and their fields shall not exceed 19 gloss units (gu) as measured on a 60-degree gloss meter.

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Signs - Contrast

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Detectable Warning Surfaces

• Where required 1. Curb ramps and blended transitions at

pedestrian street crossings; 2. Pedestrian refuge islandsException: Detectable warning surfaces shall not be required at pedestrian refuge islands that are cut-through at street level and are less than 6 feet in length in the direction of pedestrian travel.

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Detectable Warning Surfaces

• Where required 3. Pedestrian at-grade rail crossings not located

within a street or highway; 4. Boarding platforms at transit stops for buses and

rail vehicles where the edges of the boarding platform are not protected by screens or guards; and,

5. Boarding and alighting areas at sidewalk or street level transit stops for rail vehicles where the side of the boarding and alighting areas facing the rail vehicles is not protected by screens or guards.

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Detectable Warning Surfaces

• Depth and Width Detectable warning surface must extend 24

inches minimum in the direction of pedestrian travel.

At curb ramps and blended transitions, detectable warning surfaces must extend the full width of the curb ramp run excluding any flared sides or blended transition.

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Detectable Warning Surfaces

• Depth and Width

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Detectable Warning Placement

• Perpendicular Curb RampsOn perpendicular curb ramps, detectable warning surfaces must be placed as follows:• Where the ends of the bottom grade break are in front of the back of

curb, detectable warning surfaces must be placed at the back of curb.• Where the ends of the bottom grade break are behind the back of curb

and the distance from either end of the bottom grade brake to the back of curb is 60 inches or less, detectable warning surfaces must be placed on the ramp run within one dome spacing of the bottom grade break.

• Where the ends of the bottom grade break are behind the back of curb and the distance from either end of the bottom grade brake to the back of curb is more than 60 inches, detectable warning surfaces must be placed on the lower landing at the back of curb.

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Detectable Warning Placement

Perpendicular Curb Ramps

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Detectable Warning Placement

• Parallel Curb RampsOn parallel curb ramps, detectable warning surfaces must be placed on the turning space at the flush transition between the street and side-walk.

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Detectable Warning Placement

• Blended TransitionsOn blended transitions, detectable warning surfaces must be placed at the back of curb. Where raised pedestrian street crossings, depressed corners or other level pedestrian street crossings are provided, detectable warning surfaces must be placed at the flush transition between the street and the sidewalk.

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Detectable Warning Placement

• Pedestrian Refuge Islands

At cut-through pedestrian refuge islands, detectable warning surfaces must be placed at the edges of the pedestrian island and must be separated by 24 inches minimum length of surface without detectable warnings.

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Chapter 8 – Special Occupancies

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Special Rooms and Spaces

• Assembly seating• Sign Language interpreter station• Charging Stations

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Assembly Area Wheelchair spaces - Depth

Where a wheelchair space is entered from the front or rear, the wheelchair space must be 52 inches minimum in depth.

Where a wheelchair space is entered from the front or rear, the wheelchair space must be 48 inches minimum in depth.

New Existing

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Assembly Area Wheelchair Spaces- Depth

• In New and Existing buildings, where a wheelchair space is only entered from the side, the wheelchair space must be 60 inches minimum in depth.

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Assembly Area Wheelchair Spaces- Depth

• Side Approach

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Assembly Area Wheelchair Spaces- Depth

• Rear Approach

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Companion Seat Alignment

• The shoulder of the wheelchair space occupant is considered to be 36 inches or more from the front and 12 inches or more from the rear of the wheelchair space.

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Companion Seat Alignment

• Existing and New - Side approach

• Existing Front or rear approach

• New Front or rear approach

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Charging Stations

• Where charging stations are provided at wheelchair space locations, they must comply with Section 906.

• Section 906 A charging stations

must consist of a ground duplex outlet

A clear floor space must be provided at the charging station

Charging stations must comply with at least one of the reach ranges specified in Section 308.

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Charging Stations

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Spaces utilized primarily for viewing motion picture projections

• Not new requirements – just coordinating with the ADA language.

• Spaces with seating on risers Where tiered seating is provided, wheelchair

space locations must be integrated into the tiered seating area on a riser or a cross-aisle.

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Spaces utilized primarily for viewing motion picture projections

• Distance from the screen Wheelchair space locations must be located in

accordance with one of the following:○ Within the rear 60 percent of the seats provided;

or○ Located within the area of an auditorium in which

the vertical viewing angles, as measured to the top of the scree, are from the 40th to the 100th

percentile of vertical viewing angles for all seats ranked from the seats in the first row to seats in the back row.

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Sign language interpreter stations

• Because some theaters have live performances as well... Regardless, there’s no scoping for this yet.

• Area A sign language interpreter station must provide

a level and clear floor of a minimum size of 24 inches deep and 36 inches wide that is located to provide a direct line of sight from the seating area identified in Section 802.11.3

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Sign language interpreter stations

• Location Sign language interpreter stations must be

located so that seating within an arc from the station and measured to the left and to the right 60 degrees within 65 feet horizontal distance from the station is provided with sight lines providing a view of the sign language station from a height of 36 inches to 72 inches above the floor of the station.

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Sign language interpreter stations

• Illumination The sign language interpreter station must have

lighting facilities capable of providing 10 footcandles of illuminance while signing is underway measured at the center of the floor of the sign language station at a height of 48 inches above the floor.

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Sign language interpreter stations

• Backdrop Where a sign language interpreter station is located

with a permanent wall less than 10 feet behind the sign language interpreter station, the permanent wall to a height of 96 inches from the finish floor must be considered as a backdrop. The backdrop must provide a flat, smooth surface with a monochromatic, low-luster finish treatment.

Exception: The wall may not be required to comply with this section where a backdrop with a monochromatic, low luster finish treatment is provided.

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Chapter 9 - Furnishings

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Furnishings and Equipment

• Sales and Service Counters and Windows• Gaming Machines and Tables

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Sales and service counters and windows

• Where counters are provided, the accessible portion of the counter-top must extend the same depth as the public portion of the sales and service countertop provided for standing customers.

Exception: In alterations, when the provision of a counter complying with this section would result in a reduction of the number of existing counters at work stations or a reduction of the number of existing mail boxes, the counter may be permitted to have a portion which is 24 inches minimum in length complying with Section 904.3.2 provided that the required clear floor space is centered on the accessible length of the counter.

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Sales and service counters and windows

• Cross Section • Elevation

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Sales and service counters and windows

• Vertical barriers At service windows or service counter, any vertical

barrier between service personnel and customers must be at a height of 43 inches maximum above the floor.

Exception: Transparent security glazing may be permitted above the 43 inches maximum height.

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Sales and service counters and windows

• Vertical barriers

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Sales and service counters and windows

• Parallel approach A portion of the public use side of the counter surface 36

inches minimum in length and 26 inches minimum to 36 inches maximum in height above the floor must be provided.

A clear floor space positioned for a parallel approach adjacent to the accessible counter must be provided.

The space between the accessible counter surface and any projecting objects above the accessible counter must be 12 inches minimum.

Exception: Where the counter surface is less than 36 inches in length, the entire counter surface must be 26 inches minimum to 36 inches maximum in height above the floor.

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Sales and service counters and windows

• Forward approach A portion of the public use side of the counter surface 30

inches minimum in length and 36 inches maximum in height above the floor must be provided.

A clear floor space positioned for a forward approach to the accessible counter must be provided.

Knee and toe clearance complying with Section 306 must be provided under the accessible counter (17-25 inches).

The space between the accessible counter surface and any projection object above the accessible counter must be 12 inches minimum.

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Sales and service counters and windows

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Gaming Machines and Table

• Gaming machines and tables must have a clear floor space positioned for transfer or for use by an individual seated in a wheelchair.

• Clear floor spaces required at gaming machines and table are permitted to overlap.

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