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The local Habitat affiliate wants to build an accessible home in the near future. I’ve got a lot of magazines and journals that cover bits and pieces, but have yet to find complete plans. I usually draw all this up from scratch, but the locals want some form of book that shows detailing, features to include, important issues, etc. Has anyone got some titles on building & designing accessible housing? Ever seen a plan book or magazine that deals with the topic? Your help is greatly appreciated.
Chad.
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ck http://www.ncsu.edu/ncsu/design/cud
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Accessible - as in wheelchairs - as in "zero barrier"?
Single story, 3-0 doors, wide halls, 60" turnrounds in the baths, etc?
Try McGraw Hill's on line book store for a manual on access. I bought one for ROC a few years back.
Our local Orange County H4H plans probably won't help. We're doing units 7,8 of an 8 unit H4H tract in Irvine. 3 and 4 BR, 2 story duplexes.
Affordable, si, accessible, no.
ToolBear
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Have you checked with H4H headquarters ? They have a lot of plans, and might have a few like you want.
Also, I think many H4H chapters have an architect volunteer to draw plans up for their project houses. They should be up on handicap stuff.
Best of luck..............
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Ron,
I am one of the volunteer architects. The local group has felt I needed to design a custom plan for each home & family; this is using up too much valuable time in the office (& at home). I'm trying to get the local affiliate to use a standardized group of plans.... you can select Plan "A", Plan "B" or Plan "C", but no others. Variation can take place in the detailing and materials, but the plans would be limited. This does two things: It makes it easier to get a project going and it makes the building process more efficient due to repetition and familiarity.
I'd like to thank everyone for the resources and leads, including the H4H National Offices- I've been trying to get better coordination with the local, state and national levels.
*Ron,A custom plan for every H4H house? It's supposed to be affordable housing, not custom housing. You volunteer your time; they figure it's free. "That which we have cheaply, we esteem lightly." (Tom Paine).Educate them. Invoice them for what it would cost a client to get the same service - and mark at the bottom that this is being donated. If you get down to a few stock plans, it would really help out on the site to really detail them, cut lists, etc. if possible. Our biggest problem here is seeing that information gets from the plans to the crews. Since the population of workers varies daily in quantity and quality, keeping everyone on the same page is a problem. I suspect our OC chapter doesn't give them that choice. I was looking at the plans for an upcoming Blitz project and I didn't see future homeowner involvement in the design.ToolBear
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I thought H4H renovated existing houses... at least they do here.
*Chad, Our affilite (Columbus, Ohio) went thru the differet plans hassle for longer than I care to think about. we now have it down to 4 basic plans. It needs to be that way in order to be efficiant & with an ever changing volunteer force that can be challenging. We hired a proffesional construction manager last year & that has helped a bunch.Tool bear, what happens is people on the board & constuction committee's keep tinkering & think their way is the best way. think of it as construction by commitee. almost every affilite goes thruogh it. It's growing pains.
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The local Habitat affiliate wants to build an accessible home in the near future. I've got a lot of magazines and journals that cover bits and pieces, but have yet to find complete plans. I usually draw all this up from scratch, but the locals want some form of book that shows detailing, features to include, important issues, etc. Has anyone got some titles on building & designing accessible housing? Ever seen a plan book or magazine that deals with the topic? Your help is greatly appreciated.
Chad.