EasyGo Accessible Family Changing Room
Additional Info
Award Winner : Wilmot Modular Structures, Inc.
Architectural Excellence : The EasyGo™ is a 6’x21’ self-contained, ADA mobile family changing room designed to be used at events by those caring for children/adults with special needs. A .024 white aluminum exterior has panhead screws and covered sidewall exhaust fan to provide a smooth surface for vinyl graphics. A handicapped ramp folds down to expose a personnel door. A separate side room with rollup door allows access to the holding tanks. They are filled/emptied via exterior connections. A rack on the hitch holds propane tanks and generator. Axles are retractable via cranks allowing the building to be lowered to ground. The most unique interior feature is a hydraulic adult change table. User Instructions are displayed in English/Spanish. All ADA fixtures have sensors. The interior walls are washable with a neutral color to allow persons with high sensitivity to lights/sound to have a quiet room. The restroom floor is covered with Raised Coin rubber to prevent slippage but ease of wheelchair movement.
Cost Energy Effectiveness : The users of the EasyGo™ are organizations that host public events and want to offer an alternative restroom facility to families caring for members with special needs. The majority of those organizations are non-profits so cost effectiveness is critical. Low maintenance materials were used to help ease cost of repairs. The exterior is designed to allow graphics for sponsorships which helps subsidize the cost to those organizations. The attached generator alleviates the need to rent one and if electricity is available, the ability to plug the EasyGo™ into an existing outlet alleviates the need to pay for propane gas. Low flow fixtures were used to minimize the number of times tanks have to be filled. The fresh water and waste tanks are 175 gallons which should handle 200 flushes at a typical one-day event. The user saves the cost of filling and emptying the tanks more than one time.
Design Firm Name : n/a
Occupied Date : 5/16/2013
Production Start Date : 3/15/2013
Project Location City : Baltimore
Project Location State Name : MD
Technical Innovation : The EasyGo™ was designed to solve the problem many families caring for members with special needs face when they go out. They are unable to attend events as a family because there are no restrooms that can truly accommodate their needs. Adults with diapers, people with developmental disabilities needing a quiet room, mothers who want to breastfeed babies in private, and older adults needing assistance are able to use this facility because of several unique features. The building is able to use an 8’ ADA Folding ramp because of the retractable axles that lower the building to the ground. An adult size change table that adjusts hydraulically allows for easy transfer from a wheelchair to the table. Motion sensors for lights and plumbing fixtures allow for resource and energy efficiency. The building is self contained with holding tanks and can be powered by either plugging into a receptacle or using a generator fueled by (2) propane tanks on the front.
Total Square Feet : 126
Category : Relocatable: Special Application: any square footage