Required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), detectable warning tiles are required in several areas of public life, to ensure all persons have the same access to public areas, regardless of ability. Not only does the installation of ADA tiles ensure code compliance, but as a property manager, ADA tiles can provide you with an added level of peace of mind, knowing your property is safe and accessible for all members of the community.
Enhanced Accessibility
The installation of ADA tiles gives you one less thing to worry about, knowing your property can easily be accessed by persons with visual impairments. Say you’re a business owner, the installation of ADA tiles can help increase foot traffic to your business, potentially leading to an increase in sales as well, by ensuring persons of all abilities can safely and easily access your business.
ADA tiles provide an ease of accessibility without making major changes to the appearance of your building.
Ease of Wayfinding
While ADA tiles are installed to provide a non-visual warning of upcoming potential hazards, such as oncoming traffic or the edge of a transit platform, they also create a pathway that is helpful for all pedestrians.
In a large, unfamiliar space it can be difficult to navigate to the main point of interaction, such as a hotel lobby front desk or a bank of elevators. ADA tiles, however, create an easy to follow pathway that is easily seen. In this instance, the installation of detectable warning tiles ensures occupants of all abilities can easily navigate their way around your property, reducing the need for other wayfinding hints.
Increased Pedestrian Safety
The installation of ADA tiles is not just for the visually impaired and can increase safety for all pedestrians in a number of ways!
Comfortably felt underfoot, detectable warning surfaces can call a pedestrian’s attention to their surroundings and acts as a signal to stop, assess their surroundings and proceed with caution. The stark visual contrast provided between brightly coloured ADA tiles and surrounding concrete acts as a visual warning to potential upcoming hazards. Additionally, ADA tiles provide a non-slip surface, helping to minimize slips and trips in all weather conditions.
The installation of detectable warning tiles will help increase safety on any property they are installed.
Maintenance Free Solution
As a property manager, you have a lot on your plate, and the installation of ADA tiles takes one more thing off your plate. Installed into wet-set cement or retrofitted to existing substrates, detectable warning tiles are securely installed to provide a long-lasting, durable accessibility solution, that does not require constant care and maintenance.
The benefits of installing ADA tiles goes beyond meeting code compliance, and can provide property managers with an added level of peace of mind!
Access®Tile offers the ultimate solution in detectable warning systems! Our full range of detectable warning tiles, including replaceable cast in place, surface applied, and radius curve, have been carefully designed and expertly manufactured to ensure total code compliance, durability, detectability, all at the lowest cost available.
