quarta-feira, 22 de junho de 2016
domingo, 19 de junho de 2016
Micro-trottoir sur l'isolement des personnes âgées
Publicado em 1 de mar de 2016
En france plus de 1,5 millions de personnes de plus de 75 ans souffrent de solitude. Nous sommes allés dans la rue pour vous posez la question : est ce que vous avez déjà pensé à l'isolement, la perte d'autonomie où la solitude que pouvait engendré la vieillesse ?
Annonceur : Monalisa
Réalisation : Christophe Guyon / Gaëlle Barrier
Chargée de production : Yoannah Roux Genty
Production : les Films du Verseau production
Annonceur : Monalisa
Réalisation : Christophe Guyon / Gaëlle Barrier
Chargée de production : Yoannah Roux Genty
Production : les Films du Verseau production
sexta-feira, 17 de junho de 2016
Pedestrian Safety Strategic Plan: Recommendations for Research and Product Development
http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/pssp/fhwasa10035/
Mission of the Office of Safety
Together with our customers, stakeholders, partners, and other Department of Transportation (DOT) agencies, the Office of Safety works to reduce the number of crashes on U.S. roadways and the severity of crash impacts.
Within the broad highway safety mission, the Office of Safety's mission is exercising leadership throughout the highway community to make the Nation's roadways safer by: developing, evaluating and employing lifesaving countermeasures; advancing the use of scientific methods and data-driven decisions; fostering a safety culture; and promoting an integrated, multidisciplinary (4Es) approach to safety. Focus areas include: Roadway Departure, Intersections, and Pedestrians Safety.
Our safety awareness and education programs focus on teaching users how to gain maximum benefit from the safety features of their roadway infrastructure. We work with highway safety advocacy groups, State and local highway agencies, and other partners and stakeholders to identify safety needs, and to deliver highway user safety awareness and education programs that will make a difference.
As the lead safety champions within the FHWA, we advocate the integration of safety into the entire life cycle of a roadway—planning, design, engineering, environmental management, construction, and operations and maintenance. We coordinate with other DOT agencies (the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [NHTSA], the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration [FMCSA], and the Federal Railroad Administration [FRA]) to develop and implement multi-faceted, intermodal safety programs.
NextStep's Wheelchair for a Day-Regena Thomashauer
Publicado em 18 de mar de 2012
Regena Thomashauer, Founder of Mama Genas School of Womanly Arts, and NextStep Board Member spends a day in a wheelchair in support of NextStep's Wheelchair for a Day Challenge, www.wheelchairforaday.org
DONATE REGENA'S CAMPAIGN AT:http://www.crowdrise.com/wheelchairfo...
Wheelchair for a Day Challenge (WFD) is a nationwide campaign to raise awareness about the daily challenges associated with living with paralysis, and to raise funding to help build additional NextStep Fitness facilities across the United States. The month-long event will take place in May 2012 in conjunction with National Physical Fitness & Sports Month.
Wheelchair for a Day challenges able-bodied people across America, including celebrities, athletes and volunteers like you, to spend one day in a wheelchair. We also ask participants to share their stories with film and photographs so everyone can learn about their experience. Additionally, each Wheelchair-For-A-Day-er will create a personalized fundraising page at our home on CrowdRise to raise money supporting NextStep's mission and programs for the disabled.
ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE AND START YOUR CAMPAIGN TODAY!!!!
You can participate any day in May.
We will help you find a wheelchair.
What you do is up to you.
We want you to challenge yourself but have fun.
This will be an experience you will cherish for a life time and one you will never forget!
...And we won't forget you!
Visit www.wheelchairforaday.org to start your campaign, to donate, learn more, and watch some incredible stories! Also, make sure to download the "WFD for Dummies" Guide for all the info you need.
Please email me with any questions at jannek@nextstepfitness.org
Stay up to date on WFD news, film & photo contests, celebrity participants, new videos, photos, and stories at...
NextStep's "Best Ever" Homes on Social Media
CrowdRise: http://www.crowdrise.com/wheelchairfo...
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NextStepOrg
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NextStepLA
@nextstepla
#wheelchairforaday
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/wheelcha...
DONATE REGENA'S CAMPAIGN AT:http://www.crowdrise.com/wheelchairfo...
Wheelchair for a Day Challenge (WFD) is a nationwide campaign to raise awareness about the daily challenges associated with living with paralysis, and to raise funding to help build additional NextStep Fitness facilities across the United States. The month-long event will take place in May 2012 in conjunction with National Physical Fitness & Sports Month.
Wheelchair for a Day challenges able-bodied people across America, including celebrities, athletes and volunteers like you, to spend one day in a wheelchair. We also ask participants to share their stories with film and photographs so everyone can learn about their experience. Additionally, each Wheelchair-For-A-Day-er will create a personalized fundraising page at our home on CrowdRise to raise money supporting NextStep's mission and programs for the disabled.
ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE AND START YOUR CAMPAIGN TODAY!!!!
You can participate any day in May.
We will help you find a wheelchair.
What you do is up to you.
We want you to challenge yourself but have fun.
This will be an experience you will cherish for a life time and one you will never forget!
...And we won't forget you!
Visit www.wheelchairforaday.org to start your campaign, to donate, learn more, and watch some incredible stories! Also, make sure to download the "WFD for Dummies" Guide for all the info you need.
Please email me with any questions at jannek@nextstepfitness.org
Stay up to date on WFD news, film & photo contests, celebrity participants, new videos, photos, and stories at...
NextStep's "Best Ever" Homes on Social Media
CrowdRise: http://www.crowdrise.com/wheelchairfo...
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NextStepOrg
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NextStepLA
@nextstepla
#wheelchairforaday
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/wheelcha...
A Day in a Wheelchair, Trinity College
Publicado em 8 de jan de 2013
On December 5, 2012, 24 students, 1 professor, 1 dean, 1 chaplain and 2 staff members at Trinity College agreed to spend a day in a wheelchair to promote disability rights.
Song Credit- "Can't Stop" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Song Credit- "Can't Stop" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
LA's New Crack Epidemic: Sidewalks
Publicado em 7 de fev de 2013
Ever walk down a Los Angeles city sidewalk? It may feel like climbing the Himalayas.
Tree roots have uplifted many city sidewalks across L.A., turning a quick walk around the neighborhood into a treacherous experience. According to The Los Angeles Times, the city receives about 2,500 claims a year from people who hurt themselves on these cracks.
"People get hurt and people can die from falling down on and hitting their head on the sidewalk," says Los Angeles resident Peter Griswold.
What's the city's solution to this problem? A three-year, $10 million survey of all of the city's sidewalks.
Residents like Griswold say that price tag is too high. He has come up with a plan of his own that involves photographs, GPS devices, and - most importantly - volunteers. Griswold is confident that his ragtag crew of sidewalk cartographers can find and report trouble spots more quickly - and cheaply - than city workers.
"What Peter Griswold is trying to do with volunteers, the advantage that has is that it's decentralized," says Adrian Moore, vice president of research at Reason Foundation, the nonprofit that publishes Reason TV.
Moore grants it may be hard to implement on a large scale but you have to stack that up against the usual way city governments fix local problems. Namely, writing a fat check to a contractor so they don't have to deal with it anymore. Hence, the $10 million.
Moore points out that these uplifted sidewalk cracks are indicative of something bigger: bureaucracy run amok.
"One of the problems bureaucracies have, and LA in particular has, is nobody who manages these departments actually invests the management effort in saying lets be ruthless about prioritizing what's most important," says Moore.
Written and produced by Paul Detrick.
Music by Lee Maddeford.
Approximately 4:23 minutes.
Go to http://www.reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason TV's YouTube Channel to receive automatic updates when new material goes live.
Tree roots have uplifted many city sidewalks across L.A., turning a quick walk around the neighborhood into a treacherous experience. According to The Los Angeles Times, the city receives about 2,500 claims a year from people who hurt themselves on these cracks.
"People get hurt and people can die from falling down on and hitting their head on the sidewalk," says Los Angeles resident Peter Griswold.
What's the city's solution to this problem? A three-year, $10 million survey of all of the city's sidewalks.
Residents like Griswold say that price tag is too high. He has come up with a plan of his own that involves photographs, GPS devices, and - most importantly - volunteers. Griswold is confident that his ragtag crew of sidewalk cartographers can find and report trouble spots more quickly - and cheaply - than city workers.
"What Peter Griswold is trying to do with volunteers, the advantage that has is that it's decentralized," says Adrian Moore, vice president of research at Reason Foundation, the nonprofit that publishes Reason TV.
Moore grants it may be hard to implement on a large scale but you have to stack that up against the usual way city governments fix local problems. Namely, writing a fat check to a contractor so they don't have to deal with it anymore. Hence, the $10 million.
Moore points out that these uplifted sidewalk cracks are indicative of something bigger: bureaucracy run amok.
"One of the problems bureaucracies have, and LA in particular has, is nobody who manages these departments actually invests the management effort in saying lets be ruthless about prioritizing what's most important," says Moore.
Written and produced by Paul Detrick.
Music by Lee Maddeford.
Approximately 4:23 minutes.
Go to http://www.reason.tv for downloadable versions and subscribe to Reason TV's YouTube Channel to receive automatic updates when new material goes live.
Why Are San Antonio’s Sidewalks Such a Mess? (exemplo - mess = bagunça)
Why Are San Antonio’s Sidewalks Such a Mess?: Depending on where you're going, traversing San Antonio by sidewalk is alternately difficult, dangerous or impossible. Looking at the city's patchwork network of sidewalks from...
Algumas normas e referências de pesquisa no Canadá
CITY OF TORONTO ACCESSIBILITY DESIGN GUIDELINES
National Research Council Canada
Construction standards for streets in Vancouver
Design Guidelines for pedestrian accessibility
Engineering Standard and Development Manual June 2007. These
changes have been ... Requirement of a minimum thickness of 200mm for concrete
sidewalk within driveway ramp is added. 2.1.1.5 ..... 2.1.12 Canada Post
Facilities .
Century Root Barriers used near sidewalk to prevent trip and fall injuries.
Publicado em 11 de abr de 2015
Century Root Barriers to help protect sidewalks from trip and fall hazards caused by aggressive tree roots. Please call 714-632-7083 or go to www.centuryrootbarrier.com.
Prior to root pruning trees should be inspected by a Certified Arborist, to observe the tree root structure and to ensure the tree is a suitable candidate for root pruning. All trees subject to root pruning should also have a crown reduction and 1/3 of the volume thinned and trimmed to reduce and heavy wind cell factors.
Installing root barrier next to sidewalks help to prevent trip and fall injuries.
Century Products The Leader in Hardscape Protection.
Prior to root pruning trees should be inspected by a Certified Arborist, to observe the tree root structure and to ensure the tree is a suitable candidate for root pruning. All trees subject to root pruning should also have a crown reduction and 1/3 of the volume thinned and trimmed to reduce and heavy wind cell factors.
Installing root barrier next to sidewalks help to prevent trip and fall injuries.
Century Products The Leader in Hardscape Protection.
ADA-Compliant Sidewalk Trip Hazard Repair with Root Barrier
Publicado em 10 de jun de 2016
Using Century Root Barriers in your ADA-compliant sidewalk trip hazard repair will help those repairs last 5 to 15 years longer than the standard repair with no root barrier. Century Root Barriers are made from 100% recycled polyethylene and are designed to deflect roots downward below the concrete, and prevent aggressive tree roots from damaging adjacent the hardscape.
Urban Root System Century
Publicado em 31 de jul de 2015
CENTURY URBAN ROOT SYSTEM
The Century Urban Root System promotes tree growth and limits structural damage to surrounding paved surfaces. Utilizing the StormTank Module, this system supports surface loads while creating a void space for uncompacted soil – allowing for unobstructed root development and improved tree health. As an added benefit, the Century Urban Root System assists natural stormwater management through evapotranspiration.
For more information www.centuryrootbarrier.com or call 714-632-7083
The Century Urban Root System promotes tree growth and limits structural damage to surrounding paved surfaces. Utilizing the StormTank Module, this system supports surface loads while creating a void space for uncompacted soil – allowing for unobstructed root development and improved tree health. As an added benefit, the Century Urban Root System assists natural stormwater management through evapotranspiration.
For more information www.centuryrootbarrier.com or call 714-632-7083
segunda-feira, 6 de junho de 2016
Brock Paver Base Test Project
Enviado em 28 de dez de 2011
A 100 SF paver test pad was installed in Lindenhurst, NY in 2011 using Brock Paver Base instead of traditional base aggregate. Each 2' x4' polypropelene mat weighs 1.2# and is only 3/4" thick. The test pad was constructed to evaluate the long-term performance. Brock Paver Base reportedly can replace 5" of dense graded base aggregate.
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