What I appreciate about this article in the Daily Record by columnist Warren Boroson is that it puts in print what Universal Design promoters have been observing over the past several years, "These days, builders in general are being encouraged to pursue "universal design," so the houses they construct are safe and comfortable not just for the young and healthy but for the elderly and ill."
It also has some very good advice on how to evaluate the credentials of someone offering to redesign homes.
Let us hope that FEMA has such experts on staff as they redesign and rebuild the region devastated by Katrina. The failure to do so will be expensive in the short term as lost tourist trade, and even more expensive in the long term as poor design is retrofitted to accommmodate the aging baby Boom generation.
Posted by rollingrains at October 8, 2005 12:44 AM