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  • Where nonaccessible routes are provided (e.g., stairs), provide an alternate accessible route that starts and terminates at the same location.

ACCESSIBILITY FOR SAFETY AND AGING

  • Provide nonslip flooring.

  • Fix underside of area rugs to floor and provide transition strips at all edges.

  • Provide visual indication or railing at all full-height glazing, except in private residences.

  • Provide audible and visual alerts for emergency alerts.

  • Provide closed risers (visually and physically) in all stairs.

  • Use visual contrast between walls and floors, walls and doors, and walls and casework.

  • Provide visual, tactile, contrasting, or photoluminescent warnings at floor level changes.

ACCESSIBILITY FOR SOCIAL HEALTH

  • Provide lactation room pods.

  • Provide at least one fully accessible, all-gender, single-use restroom OR one multiuse, all-gender restroom on each floor of the building.

  • Include at least one adult changing station or table in a designated, accessible restroom or

family restroom, or in one men’s and one women’s restroom.

  • Provide signage in all languages spoken by more than 5% of the local population.

  • Support neurodivergent users by achieving EQc2: Occupant Experience, Option 1, Biophilic Environments, Path 1, Integrated Biophilic Design .

ACCESSIBILITY FOR NAVIGATION

  • Provide wayfinding signage that clearly indicates exits, entrances, and major functions in the project.

  • Provide nontext diagrams and symbols at signage.

  • Provide braille, visual and auditory cues, and/or continuous linear indicators on paths of travel.

  • Use patterns and color blocking to identify key access spaces.

  • Provide haptic/tactile maps for wayfinding.

REQUIREMENTS EXPLAINED

This credit encourages design that embraces the principles of accessibility and Inclusive Design, considering physical, sensory, and cognitive needs of occupants. [184] The goal is to go

184 Zallio, M. and Clarkson, P. (2021, December), Inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility in the built environment: A study of architectural design practice, sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132321007496.

U.S. Green Building Council LEED v5 Reference Guide for Building Design and Construction, April 2025 Launch Edition 507

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