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JOHN MOULANG

John Moulang is an ACAA accredited consultant and is registered as an assessor for SDA and LHA projects. He is an Associate and Business Development Manager at Morris Goding Access Consulting (MGAC) where he has been for 5 years. His intended contribution to the ACAA is to evolve the status of accredited consultants to give wider and better advice than the minimum compliance tick box compliance as a norm. To support corporate organisations, educational institutions and the like to formulate their own accessibility policies that are best practice and keep up with evolving trends.

NICK MORRIS

Nick Morris a former Paralympian, a Director of MGAC is an accredited Accessibility and Universal Design expert and advisor. Nick Morris holds a degree in Human Movement, ACAA Accreditation, degree qualifications for both the secondary and vocational educational sectors and is a qualified Livable Housing and Changing Places Accessor. Nick’s status, experience and commitment has seen Nick to become a role model within the industry, a mentor to many organisations Australia and worldwide, assisting in Olympic and Paralympic bids, organising committees and event staging on how to implement accessibility and universal design, while creating a positive culture change within the community at large.

LYNDA WILEM

Lynda is a senior access consultant at Philip Chun Accessibility. She is an ACAA accredited member and architect with over 20 years experience gained at Philip Chun and the university sector. Lynda is interested in all aspects of accessibility and Universal Design but has particular interest in the accessibility of public transport, the public domain and pedestrian networks. Lynda has been involved for a number of years in disability advocacy in her local community in Castlemaine, Victoria. Lynda would like to work to support the growth of the Victorian chapter of ACAA.

RICHARD SEIDMAN

Richard is the principal of iAccess Consultants who for the past 11 years has provided access consulting services to government and non-government clients, including the Sydney Opera House, Netball Central, Health Infrastructure, Schools infrastructure, University of Sydney, University of Technology and Macquarie University. His involvement in the provision of accessible residential accommodation commenced with the implementation of the 2009 Rudd NBESP where he was part of the client side team which delivered 1500 adaptable and universal design dwellings across NSW. Since 2010 he has been involved in the provision of access consulting services of more than 1300 projects across many market segments. He holds a Bachelor in Architecture and a Diploma in Access, as well as accreditation with ACAA, LHA and SDA. He has spoken on access topics at the 2019 Planning Institute Australia National Conference, the 2019 UDIA conference, speaker at IMC15 Montreal, Canada and is delivering three papers at IMC17 in 2021 Gothenburg Sweden. He brings to the committee a depth of experience in the application of the access provisions in the architectural and project management arena.

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