Industrial and manufacturing buildings place heavy demands on their doors, frames, locks, hinges, closers, exit devices, and access-control systems. Employees, equipment, deliveries, vendors, and materials may move through the same openings throughout the day. Over...
Commercial doors must provide security during normal operations while allowing people to exit quickly during an emergency. This balance is especially important at schools, healthcare facilities, churches, municipal buildings, offices, industrial properties, and other...
Fire-rated doors play an important role in protecting commercial buildings, their occupants, and surrounding areas. However, a fire-rated door can only perform properly when the frame, hardware, installation, and surrounding opening work together as a complete system....
Accessibility is an important consideration for every commercial facility. Entrances and interior doors must be usable by employees, customers, students, patients, visitors, and other building occupants with a wide range of physical abilities. When doors are difficult...
Aging commercial buildings often need more than cosmetic updates. Doors, frames, hinges, closers, locks, exit devices, thresholds, seals, and access hardware all affect how a facility functions every day. When these systems become worn, outdated, difficult to operate,...
Fire-rated doors are an essential part of a commercial building’s life-safety system. When properly installed and maintained, these doors help slow the spread of fire and smoke, protect exit routes, and give occupants more time to leave the building safely. However,...
