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Incorporate accessible and inclusive equipment and activities in fitness facilities. Ensure an open and accessible route to and around the equipment.
- Where inaccessible 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 stairwells.
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.

U.S. Green Building Council LEED v5 Reference Guide for Building Design and Construction, November 2025 Edition 168