About Built Advisors
Who We Are
Built Advisors is a professional accessibility advisory service helping municipalities, public organizations, and commercial facility owners better understand how people experience their buildings and sites.
Our work combines accessibility knowledge with practical experience in facility operations, capital planning, project delivery, and long-term asset management.
Our Story
Built Advisors was created to help organizations move from broad accessibility goals to clear, practical action.
Recommendations are developed with an understanding of how facilities operate, how capital decisions are made, and how improvements must be coordinated with budgets, projects, maintenance needs, and ongoing public use.
The result is accessibility advice that is realistic, understandable, and designed to support informed decisions.
Our Approach
Built on Experience
Built Advisors brings together professional accessibility knowledge and real-world municipal facilities leadership.
This experience includes active public buildings, community spaces, recreation facilities, administrative offices, capital renewal, building operations, maintenance planning, consultant coordination, and project implementation.
That background helps ensure recommendations reflect both the needs of facility users and the realities faced by owners and operators.
A People-Centred Perspective
Accessibility is not only about individual building features.
It is about whether people can approach, enter, understand, navigate, use, and participate in a space with dignity, independence, and confidence.
Built Advisors considers accessibility through the full site experience, helping organizations understand how physical, sensory, cognitive, and communication barriers may affect different users.
Practical by Approach
Built Advisors focuses on recommendations that organizations can understand, prioritize, and move forward.
Advice is developed with consideration for:
- operational realities;
- capital budgets;
- planned facility renewal;
- project timing;
- further technical investigation;
- funding opportunities;
- implementation capacity.
The objective is not simply to identify barriers. It is to help facility owners understand what matters, why it matters, and what should happen next.
Clear Advice for Decision-Makers
Built Advisors communicates findings in straightforward language for facility owners, municipal leaders, administrators, asset managers, and other decision-makers.
Reports and recommendations are designed to support:
- project discussions;
- capital planning;
- budget development;
- funding decisions;
- internal prioritization;
- future technical reviews;
- formal RHFAC planning where appropriate.
Technical issues are identified clearly, while detailed architectural, engineering, code, or discipline-specific reviews are recommended when required.
Professional Expertise
RHFAC Professional
Facility Management Professional — FMP®
Project Management Professional — PMP®
Qualified to provide services connected with the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification program and the accessibility of the built environment.
Project Management Professional — PMP®
Facility Management Professional — FMP®
Project Management Professional — PMP®
Professional project-management knowledge supporting clear scope development, coordination, risk awareness, and project delivery.
Facility Management Professional — FMP®
Facility Management Professional — FMP®
Facility Management Professional — FMP®
Facilities-management expertise connecting accessibility recommendations with operations, maintenance, service delivery, and long-term building needs.
EASE™ and RHFAC
EASE™ Advisory Services
EASE™ Advisory Services
EASE™ Advisory Services
EASE™ helps organizations understand the site experience, identify significant barriers, establish priorities, and determine practical next steps.
RHFAC Support
EASE™ Advisory Services
EASE™ Advisory Services
RHFAC is a separate, formal accessibility rating and certification pathway based on an established national methodology.
EASE™ provides practical direction. RHFAC provides a formal rating pathway.