CARM: California Accessibility Reference Manual / Code & Checklist is the best-selling guide to accessibility design and construction for California professionals. Thousands of copies are used statewide by architects, contractors, and even state and municipal agencies. Thousands of professionals rely on CARM to sort through the complex of accessibility regulations.
Now CARM is available in a newly updated, Second Edition. Featuring all-new illustrations. A companion CD-ROM with the entire reference in PDF format. Plus a library of 800-plus accessibility illustrations taken straight from the pages of CARM 2nd Edition... that you can use in proposals, correspondence and plans. |
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| With the release of a new Windows-compatible CD-ROM version, you can now browse and search the entire reference in just seconds. And with CARM in PDF format or your choice of 2 new, pocket-sized Field Guides, you can answer accessibility design and installation questions at job sites, client meetings... wherever you need top-quality information at your fingertips.
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YOU GET ALL THIS... |
 The complete 2nd Edition printed reference — updated and revised, with all-new illustrations.
Illustrated checklists make application of Accessibility requirements clear and easy.
Full text of relevant codes, and side-by-side format allow easy in-depth research when required. |
... and the CD-ROM Version
 CARM 2nd Edition / PDF Version
Everything in the printed version.
PLUS selected Accessibility Chapters from California's Title 24, and the ADA Standard... an Accessibility library on CD-ROM! Browse and search the entire reference in just seconds!
Extensive hypertext links in CARM's Illustrated Checklists take you quickly to the codes on which they're based. BONUS: CARM Illustration Library
800-plus Accessibility Illustrations from CARM 2nd Edition.
600-dpi TIF files, usable in most Windows-based word processing, desktop publishing, graphics and CAD software.
Average size of images: 1200 pixels wide; height varies. At 600 dpi, that equals 2-inches wide; at 300 dpi, that equals 4-inches wide.
Spiralbound Book / ISBN
1889892327
Windows-compatible CD-ROM / ISBN
1889892408
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CD-ROM Version
CARM 2nd Edition / PDF Version
All the information in the printed version of the newly revised 2nd Edition.
PLUS selected Accessibility Chapters from California's Title 24, and the ADA Standard... an Accessibility Library on CD-ROM! Browse and search the entire reference in just seconds! Find what you need, and do in-depth research faster than ever before. Extensive hypertext links in CARM Checklists take you quickly to the codes on which they're based. BONUS: CARM Illustration Library
800-plus Accessibility Illustrations from CARM 2nd Edition.
High-resolution 600-dpi TIF files can be used in most Windows-based word processing, desktop publishing, graphics and CAD software.
Average size of images: 1200 pixels wide; height varies. At 600 dpi, that equals 2-inches wide; at 300 dpi, that equals 4-inches wide.
Windows-compatible CD-ROM / ISBN
1889892408
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About PDF and TIF files
To use the CD-ROM (PDF) Version of CARM 2nd Edition, you'll need the Adobe Reader (not included), available for FREE download from www.adobe.com. Note that printing has been disabled in the PDF version of CARM 2nd Edition; if you need hard copy, please consider the Book and CD-ROM Combo.
If you're interested in using the TIF files in the CARM Illustration Library with CAD software, please review the documentation that accompanies your software. Some software - especially the most recent versions of at least one popular CAD package - requires you to open and save the TIF files (provided here with LZW compression) without compression. |
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To review the license under which CARM 2nd
Edition PDF Version is provided, click here. |
To review the license under which TIF images in CARM Illustration Library are provided, click here. |
Requirements for Windows-compatible CD-ROM Version
CARM 2nd Edition PDF Version requires the Adobe Reader, as noted above. The PDF Version requires approx. 65 MB of Hard Drive space. NOTE:
Printing is disabled in the PDF Version.
If you require
hard copy, please consider the Book + CD-ROM Combo Pack.
CARM Illustration Library contains more than 800 files in Windows-compatible TIF format.
These files can be used in most Windows-based word processing, graphics and related programs.
Each illustration is provided at a crisp 600 dpi resolution, with an average width of 1200 pixels; height varies; approx. 2 inches wide at 600 dpi, or approx. 4 inches wide when used at 300 dpi.
For the complete Illustration Library, you'll need approximaty 2 GB hard disk space free. Smaller installations are possible, however, each installation averaging 300 MB. Once installed, unwanted illustrations can be deleted to free up hard drive space. Average file size of each illustration: 2 MB.
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CARM 2nd Edition was designed to help you quickly understand and apply the accessibility requirements found in the Federal "Americans with Disabilities Act" (ADA) and California's Title 24.
CARM's unique illustrated checklists clearly show how those laws and regulations translate into building design and layout. And since CARM also brings you the full, actual text of codes and regulations, you have everything you'll need for in-depth research on those unusual situations. |
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The Windows-compatible CD-ROM Version is perfect for quick searching. And because every citation in the illustrated checklists is a hypertext link, it's even easier to review the law or regulation behind the checklists.
 The new CARM Illustration Library — included as part of the CD-ROM Version — brings you all the new illustrations found in the printed and CD-ROM versions, in a format you can use in your correspondence, proposals and plans.
SPECIAL SAVINGS !
The CARM 2nd Edition printed version includes the full CD-ROM version — a $39.95 value — at no additional charge. And with the Builder's Book everyday discount of 10%, you'll save even more! |
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