Tag Archives: Hardware

Securing the future: Electrification of doors and hardware

April 22, 2025

Over the past few decades, electrified hardware and doors have revolutionized how buildings are secured and accessed, from hotels and hospitals to office spaces and apartment complexes.

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Fire door safety: How can specifiers help?

July 30, 2022

A fire at an apartment building in Bronx, New York, earlier this year drew attention to the impact of non-code-compliant fire door assemblies in multifamily residential properties.

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Timeless steel windows and doors unite old and new at NY comedy center

November 2, 2020

The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, is home to the country’s foremost archive of the history and art form of comedy. The groundbreaking museum is housed, in part, in the historic Jamestown Gateway Station building. Built between 1930 and 1932, the station featured custom steel windows as part of its chic Art Deco design. As a result, it was a natural choice to provide steel replacement windows for the historic building as well as steel windows and doors for the new construction when the comedy center redeveloped the site.

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Builders hardware association updates two standards

June 25, 2020

The Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association (BHMA) has published the latest revisions to American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/BHMA A156.5, Cylinders and Input Devices for Locks, and ANSI/BHMA A156.30, High Security Cylinders Product. Both of these revisions are approved by ANSI.

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Smoke doors versus fire doors: What is the difference?

June 13, 2019

Architects often use the phrase ‘20-minute smoke door,’ and it is common to see a door schedule calling for these products. To properly specify doors, frames, and hardware for fire door and smoke door assemblies, it is critical the proper terminology is used and the correct code requirements are referenced.

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