Clients

Representative Examples

    Government
  • US Dept of Justice: 30 sites – evaluation of grocery stores; Baltimore, Denver, Portland.
  • CA State Department of Rehabilitation: Conducted a state-wide evaluation of the Department's field offices.
  • CA Division of the State Architect:
    1. Subject matter expert to develop testing + certification program for access consultants (CASp)
    2. Produced manuals and checklists for plan-checkers regarding accessible housing
    3. Provided analysis to assist in securing ADA certification of the California State Building Code
  • SF Zoo: Litigation expert and design consultant on new zoo expansion projects
  • CA Attorney General: Litigation expert concerning accessible polling places and voting programs
  • Counties of Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and San Luis Obispo: Guidance to Elections Departments
  • Santa Cruz Port District: Inspection and report on all facilities within a 22-acre site
  • Santa Cruz Public Libraries: 9-Branch site survey report and implementation plan.
  • City of Santa Cruz: Municipal Wharf Site survey and solutions for waterfront commercial spaces
  • Easter Seals/Project Action: Survey tool and best practices manual for transit agencies
  • City of Pacific Grove: Plan review and recommendations for new government buildings and historic properties
  • City of Watsonville: Parks and housing
    Stores, Restaurants, Hotels, Banks and other businesses
  • Longs Drugs: Site surveys of 51 store facilities
  • Sears: Site survey and design solutions for department stores
  • Whole Foods Markets: Inspection + recommendations for 20+ stores in CA, Oregon and Washington.
  • United Security Bank: 10 Central Valley branch surveys and design solutions
  • CA Savings Bank: Bay Area locations / Site survey-report and design solutions
  • Wineries: Louis Martini / J. Lohr / Chimney Rock / Mt. Eden / Domaine Carneros
  • Anchor Blue: California retail clothing stores- site survey-reports and design solutions
  • Mollie Stone’s Markets: Bay area stores
    Developers/Architects/Planners
  • Thatcher & Thompson Architects: Multi-use publicly funded facility and senior housing + many more
  • Michael Rex Associates; Apartments, townhouses and retail
  • Nelson/Nygaard: Transportation planning
  • South County Housing: Project planning and solutions
    Training
  • AIA Chapters of Monterey, Santa Clara and Redwood Empire: Continuing education for architect licensure
  • County Election Departments: Surveying polling places and strategies for achieving accessibility
  • Tendiendo-Puentes A.C.: Featured speaker at international seminar for Latin American government representatives concerning "Essential Themes of Social Justice"

  • Institute of Federal Elections – Mexico: Featured speaker at conference concerning implementation of Article 29 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; access to public and political life – and the signing of the formal agreement by the 7 political parties (See Article).

Attorneys

  • CA Attorney General: Surveyed and evaluated more than 500 sites for access to polling places
  • CA Dept. of Fair Employment & Housing: Reasonable accommodation/condominiums
  • Disability Rights Advocates (DRA): Class actions: Merchandise in department stores; Caltrans curb ramps
  • Office of the San Francisco City Attorney: Theater, Performing arts complex, and City Zoo.
  • McCormick-Barstow: Hotels and restaurants
  • Reed-Smith LLP : Banks within the greater Bay Area
  • Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass: Major San Francisco landmarks
  • Bragg & Kuluva (house counsel-Chubb Insurance): Recreational, entertainment, wineries, banks, school campuses, & department stores
  • Rosen Bien Galvan: transportation
  • Bennedetti & Associates: Public schools, access to special education
  • Disability Rights California (formerly Protection & Advocacy): Senior housing accommodations