About Event
It has been an exciting couple of years in the field of Disability Access, with a number of key access-related standards being updated and others getting close to being released for public comment. Our not to be missed ACA Conference, ACCESS 2023, provides opportunity to hear about these updates, as well as the latest results of Disability Access Research by University of Technology Sydney and Deakin University.
Please note:
- Attending the conference in person is limited to a maximum of 100 tickets and this option is currently being offered to ACA members only.
- ACA members will need to be logged in to see the member only ticketing options.
- Non members are invited to attend online and may choose to be wait listed at the time of registration for attending in person should seats become available.
Program
| Time | Details | Speaker |
| 8.30am | REGISTRATION Waiting room opens online. |
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| 9.00am – 9.30am | WELCOME + HOUSEKEEPING ACA President |
Lindsay Perry |
| 9.30am – 10.15am | SESSION 1: TECHNICAL New Carparking Standards AS2890.5-2020 and AS2890.6-2022 |
Mark Relf & Hamish Murray |
| 10.15am – 11.00am | SESSION 2: TECHNICAL New Lifts Standards AS1735.12-2020 |
Eric Martin |
| 11.00am – 11.30am | MORNING TEA | |
| 11.30am – 12.30pm | SESSION 3: TECHNICAL Upcoming New Standards AS1428.6 |
Angela Roennfeldt & Farah Madon |
| 12:30pm – 2.00pm | LUNCH + NETWORKING | |
| 2.00pm – 2.45pm | SESSION 4: THEORY UTS Research – Accessibility Design for Bathrooms |
Phillippa Carnemolla |
| 2.45pm – 3.30pm | SESSION 5: THEORY Research – Shared Zones (driveways and pedestrian access for the vision impaired) |
Jen Moon |
| 3.30pm – 4.15 pm | SESSION 6: THEORY Deakin University Research – Sensory rooms |
Iliana Ginnis |
| 4.15pm | CONFERENCE CLOSE + AFTERNOON TEA |
* Program may be subject to change.