Disability Rights and Resources Incorporates Universal Design Features

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This 8,000 s.f. building now serves as the headquarters of Disability Rights and Resources to provide independent living services to people with disabilities and for future exhibits and interpretive displays.   Programs will be developed according to universal design principles.  Focus will be on highlighting the disability rights movement in Alabama and the United States. This facility is a gem on the civil rights trail, across from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and will serve as a model for buildings throughout the region.  All was synthesized into the overall design so no one element sticks out as just for people with disabilities.  This is also a green project that re-purposes a former residential and commercial site.

The Architect and Project Designer is Cohen Carnaggio Reynolds.  Accessibility Consultant is Hecker Design, and Landscape Architect is Macknally Ross Land Design.  The building contractor is Stewart Perry.  Office furniture was provided by Office Environments.

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