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PCC Research / The PCC Book of Parking / Part V
THE PCC BOOK OF PARKING · PART V · 8 MODULES · BUILT IN FULL

Making It Usable

The systems the patron actually touches: the accessible space and the route it anchors, the wayfinding chain, the signs, the light, and the air. This is the part where the building's obligations to every person walking through it get counted, drawn, and lit -- and where the accessibility family's canonical dimension set lives.

Source chapters: Accessibility (Monahan, Schneeman, Kim, Gross) · Wayfinding and graphics (Stanley, Hammerschlag, B. Lozano) · Lighting and ventilation, Ch 16 (Monahan)
Mechanisms on display: the accessible space calculator (Module 37, live), and the flagged-value figure (Module 42's lighting levels hold their numbers under an open author query while the zone map publishes).
MODULE 37 · FREE

Accessible Parking: How Many Spaces, and Where They Go

How many accessible spaces, which are van, and where they go -- with the live calculator.

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MODULE 38

ADA in Existing Facilities: Alterations, Barrier Removal, and Triggers

Alterations, barrier removal, and the triggers: which rung of the obligation ladder the project stands on.

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MODULE 39

Accessible Routes, Ramps, Elevators, and Equipment

The route is a chain: stall, aisle, path, ramp, elevator, door -- as compliant as its worst link.

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MODULE 40

Wayfinding: Getting Drivers and Pedestrians Where They're Going

Six handoffs from approach to return, each with its own decision point and failure mode.

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MODULE 41

Signage and Environmental Graphics

The sign hierarchy: authority first, direction second, identity third, atmosphere last.

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MODULE 42

Lighting Levels: IES Standards, Uniformity, and the LED Baseline

IES zones and uniformity -- with the numeric levels honestly held under an open author query.

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MODULE 43

Lighting Design and Economics: Where the Payback Is

The best LED case in the building stock: long hours, high counts, brutal relamping access.

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MODULE 44

Ventilation: Natural vs. Mechanical, CO Sensing, and Fan Sizing

Natural vs. mechanical with CO sensing -- and fan sizing left with the engineer of record.

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← Part IV · Making It StandPart VI · Making It Pay →Start at Module 37 →