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Richard Duncan

Richard Duncan is a co-founder of the recently reorganized, Raleigh, NC-based HousingWorks, which provides a range of accessible/universal design services. For approximately 15 years, he was the Director of Universal Design Training at the Center for Universal Design, part of the College of Design at North Carolina State University. He served as the Principal Investigator on a number of Center projects, including and "Safe and Accessible Homes for Independence," and "The Excellence in Universal Housing Design" award.

Mr. Duncan has spent over 20 years in the field of architectural accessibility and universal design in residential, public, and transportation environments. He has extensive experience in the design, costs, materials, and products in residential and non-residential settings. His work includes the issues of affordable housing and home and repair financing and transportation accessibility. He has extensive experience in the design, costs, materials, and products in residential and non-residential settings. He has worked with hundreds of families to solve access problems, many throughout an entire design, specification, and construction process. Seminars, courses, workshops and speaking engagements have taken him across North America and to Europe. He is the 2003 recipient of the "Icons of the Industry" award from the Seniors Housing Council of the National Association of Home Builders.

He was the editor of "A Blueprint for Action," and was project director of "Access Boston: Design Guidebook for Barrier-Free Access." He is a co-author of "Funding Sources for Home Modifications" and is working on a new publication titled, "Costs of Home Modification Projects." Mr. Duncan serves on the boards of Housing Works, the North Carolina Sustainable Building Design Competition, and the National Home Modification Action Coalition. He is a graduate of the planning program at the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Richard Duncan
Richard Duncan, MRP
Co-Director
HousingWorks
Raleigh, NC 27697
Phone: 919.608.1812
E-mail: housingworks2@earthlink.net