Larry M. Schneider, AIA is the principal of his own firm Larry M. Schneider, AIA. Prior to reopening his own firm, he was the Accessibility, Value Analysis, and Partnering Coordinator with the firm of Dade Aviation Consultants at Miami International Airport. He has been a principal with his own architectural firm of Currie Schneider Associates AIA, PA for ten years in which the firm won numerous design awards. He has been involved with the accessibility codes for the State of Florida since 1985 where he served as a member of the Department of Community Affairs Special Task Force to rewrite the Florida Accessibility Code. This resulted in the 1990 edition of the Florida Accessibility Manual. In 1992 he was appointed to the Florida Board of Building Codes and Standards and was elected its chair in 1993 and served as the chairperson of that board until 1996. In 1993 the State of Florida decided to rewrite its accessibility code to comply with the ADA Standards and he was the representing architect on this endeavor. Again in 1997, the State of Florida decided to rewrite its accessibility code, to comply with the DOJ comments for certification of the FACBC and he was the representing architect on this undertaking. He currently is the AIA representative on the ANSI A117.1 Committee that creates the national guidelines for accessibility compliance and use. He has continued to remain active in the code process and in those issues of concern by the disabled community. He is a Past President of AIA Florida (FAAIA). He has been a speaker at past AIA Florida Conferences on Accessibility (Fair Housing, the ADA and the FACBC), a speaker at AIA National Grassroots, AIA Texas, AIA Oklahoma and the AIA National Convention, a speaker at the CSI National Convention, a speaker at numerous Building Code Officials Conferences as well as government municipalities and school boards.