When You Build a City on a Hill…The ADA is implicated: A case review
- Topics:
- Disabilities
- Tags:
- Americans With Disabilities Act,
- Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA),
- Gender And Diversity,
- Human Resources,
- Reed Elsevier Inc.
- Source:
- Reed Elsevier
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Overview: This article describes a case in which an engineering firm, Engineering, Inc.1, was retained to design improvements to the streetscape of a small, suburban town, (“Town”) located in a hilly section of central Massachusetts. The design of the streetscape improvements implicated the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and state accessibility regulations. After the Contractor substantially completed the first phase of the project, a local accessibility advocate pointed out what he considered violations of the regulations of the Massachusetts Architectural Access Board (“MAAB”). The Engineering Firm immediately began to work with its client to address the accessibility issues. Unfortunately, this process was complicated by the fact that the Contractor had performed shoddy work and was essentially non-responsive to the Town’s request that it repairs construction deficiencies.
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Format: PDF | Size: 43KB | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 14
