BarrierFree offers a suite of targeted training courses designed to build professional capability in accessible design, regulatory compliance, and user-centred assessment.
Each course is delivered by accessibility experts and can be tailored to suit your organisation’s needs.
Understand the regulatory framework and apply it with confidence.
This course equips participants with practical knowledge of accessibility requirements under New Zealand’s building standards. It covers how to interpret and implement key frameworks—including the NZ Building Code, NZS 4121:2001, and RTS 14—and explores strategies for integrating compliance into design, planning, and consent processes. Lived experience examples are woven throughout to illustrate how these standards support real-world accessibility outcomes.
Ideal for: Architects, Landscape Architects, Designers, Building Control Officers, and Consent Authorities.
Design with diverse user needs in mind.
Explore how people of varying abilities navigate buildings, landscapes, and streetscapes. This course focuses on the capabilities and limitations of environment users, and how design choices impact access, dignity, and independence.
Includes: Interactive exercises, real-life examples, and barrier identification.
Become a skilled accessibility auditor with practical tools and professional insight.
This advanced training course is designed for professionals and those with lived experience seeking to specialise in accessibility auditing across buildings, public spaces, and facilities. Participants will develop the technical and analytical skills required to conduct thorough assessments, identify non-compliance, and produce high-quality audit reports aligned with New Zealand standards and international best practice.
Hear directly from environment users and apply their insights.
This seminar-style course features guest speakers who share personal experiences of navigating the built environment. Participants learn how barriers affect daily life and how inclusive design can transform outcomes.
Operationalise inclusive design principles in your projects.
Learn how to use MBIE’s Buildings for Everyone guidance to support accessible, equitable design outcomes. This course explores the intent behind the guidance and how it can be applied to new builds, retrofits, and policy development.
BarrierFree offers bespoke training solutions for organisations seeking targeted learning outcomes. Whether you’re preparing for a major project, upskilling staff, or embedding accessibility into operations, we’ll design a course that fits.
Contact us today to discuss how we can support your accessibility goals.
