Integral Group has climbed the charts in this year’s Engineering News-Record (ENR)’s 2021 Top 500 Design Firms, moving to #167 up from #181 in 2020. Integral Group also ranked #26 on ENR’s Top 50 Designers in the International Markets sublist, up from #37 in 2020. The annual Top 500 Design Firms list features peers and…
How do we design lifts to evacuate occupants safely? As building design standards are being transformed to incorporate accessibility design elements, one aspect of accessibility requirements have not been updated: evacuation in the event of an emergency. Our National Construction Code (NCC), the Building Code of Australia (BCA) is almost silent on how mobility-impaired occupants,…