About the Practice
Built
for the Built Environment
An accessibility practice built from the disciplines that create, document, and regulate the built environment — architecture, accessibility specialization, and building code enforcement.
The Practice
Who We Are
Accessance Consulting is an accessibility practice serving owners, tenants, operators, architects, engineers, and contractors on new construction, alterations, and existing facilities — on projects across the United States. Every engagement is approached with the same rigor, the same standards depth, and the same commitment to getting it right.
We engage at the peer level — as colleagues who understand what every member of the project team needs, what the standards require of them, and what an engagement that actually serves the work looks like.
Why We Exist
The Practice We Set Out to Build
Accessance Consulting was founded on a specific understanding of how accessibility consulting is most effective — and what it requires.
The standards that govern accessibility in the built environment — federal, state, and local — are technical documents. Understanding them takes more than knowing the numbers. It requires understanding how a building moves from a concept to a set of construction documents to a constructed facility: how design decisions propagate through drawings, how field conditions relate to approved documents, how a finding in a plan review connects to a correction in the field.
That understanding changes what a plan review, an inspection, or a consulting engagement actually delivers. Findings are documented with the precision that allows a design team to act on them, not just acknowledge them. Conflicts between standards and design intent get resolved rather than catalogued. Every engagement — from a single plan review to a full project consultation — is genuine work by a practitioner who understands the project in full context.
Accessance Consulting applies the adopted standard consistently, accurately, and without qualification — giving every client a practice they can rely on to get it right.
The Name
Why Accessance
The name is deliberate.
The practice, condition, and discipline of access in the built environment; the systematic planning, design, and evaluation of spaces, structures, and facilities to meet established standards of access for all people, regardless of ability.
Accessance is a constructed term — built from the Latin root accessus, meaning the act of approaching and the means of entry, and the suffix -ance, a noun-forming element that describes the action, process, or condition associated with its root. As performance names the act of performing and assurance names the state of being assured, Accessance names the discipline — the practice, process, and condition of access. Not limited to any single field or context, but brought here to the built environment, where it belongs.
The name signals what the practice is. The work delivers on it.
Credentials
The Credentials Behind the Practice
The combination of credentials brought to every Accessance Consulting engagement is specific and intentional.
The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation registers accessibility specialists who have demonstrated the knowledge and experience to review plans and inspect construction for compliance with Texas Accessibility Standards. The RAS credential is required for TDLR-registered accessibility reviews and inspections in Texas.
35 years of architectural practice across every project phase and every team role — from technical staff through principal — provide direct working knowledge of how design decisions translate into construction documents, where errors occur, and how a finding in a plan review propagates through a project. That background informs every engagement, from the first consultation through occupancy.
The International Code Council's Certified Building Official credential represents mastery of the full body of building codes and standards, including the accessibility provisions of the International Building Code and their relationship to ICC A117.1. Understanding how code officials evaluate submitted documents is a direct advantage in preparing documents that satisfy regulatory review.
Together these credentials represent the three professional perspectives most relevant to accessibility in the built environment: the designer, the specialist, and the code official. Having all three in a single practice means every project arrives with full context — from design intent through construction document, from regulatory requirement through field verification, from the standards on paper to the conditions in the field.
Our Philosophy
Commit. Create. Excel.
We ACE every engagement. ACE — Accessance Consulting Engages — is how we deliver on our highest obligation: unparalleled service to every client on every project. That commitment is expressed through three core values: Accountability, Creativity, and Excellence.
Accountability. We can be counted on. Commitments made are commitments kept — to schedules, to scope, to the accuracy of the work. We stand behind everything that leaves our desk, and we are present when questions arise after an engagement closes. We engage as collaborative partners, not outside reviewers: our word is our bond, and our clients carry the confidence of knowing exactly what they are getting and that we will deliver it.
Creativity. The most useful thing we can do when a standard conflicts with what the team is trying to build is find a path forward — not a dead end. Creativity in accessibility practice means working with owners, designers, and contractors to find real-world solutions at the intersection of design intent and accessibility requirements. A different detail. A better approach. An alternative path that satisfies the requirement without compromising the design. That is what creative problem-solving looks like in the built environment.
Excellence. We hold ourselves to a standard we describe simply: get it right. That means being accurate — citing the standard correctly and applying it as written. It means being faithful to intent — understanding what a requirement is trying to accomplish and applying it in that spirit. It means being sound in judgment — giving advice that serves the project and the client, not the path of least resistance. No engagement is perfect. Every engagement gets our best.