Archive for September, 2011
Here are some more vacation photos submitted by Eyal Bedrik of Entry Systems Ltd. The next time you’re on a road trip, don’t forget to take some photos for me!
Have you ever had a few minutes to spare between meetings or while waiting for someone, and you wondered what was going on over at iDigHardware? Well, now you can find out! If you log into the site from your iPhone, Android, or iPad, you will be automatically directed to the new mobile version of [...]
This weekend I left my computer at home (yes, really!) and headed to Cape Cod for my brother’s wedding. The wedding was held in North Truro, and the kids had heard me say several times that we were going to “Truro.” Well, my kids go to a bilingual school and are fluent in Spanish. All [...]
Have you ever run into one of those doors that needs access control, but for whatever reason it’s almost impossible to get the wires to the lock? Maybe it’s an existing door (especially if it’s fire rated), or an opening set into stone or a fancy surround like the door on the left. It might [...]
I received a lot of vacation photos this summer, including these from my pal Eyal Bedrik of Entry Systems Ltd in Israel, who apparently spent 5 weeks in the U.S. but didn’t stop by to visit me.
On this day in history, September 19th, 1902, a stampede at the Shiloh Baptist Church resulted in the deaths of 120 people. The church was clearly over occupant load capacity with thousands packed in to hear Booker T Washington speak, but I wonder about the available exits. Did the occupants rush the entrance door because [...]
Last month I told you that I would be drawing 5 names from my list of connections and subscribers in honor of my 500th post, to win their choice of prizes (an LCN 4040XP closer, a Schlage CO lock, a Schlage residential keypad lock, or a $50 Amazon gift card). Yesterday was Kidzilla’s 5th birthday, [...]
This multitude of blocked exit photos was sent by Ian Childs of New Directions in Building Services, Sydney Australia. I think I may need to go thank Ian in person.
I was just thinking to myself how nice it would be to have a night off…actually, since it’s already 8:30 p.m. it’s more like a half-night. Then I remembered that last week I received an article from a “guest blogger.” Woohoo! Thanks TJ! IT’S A DOG EAT DOG WORLD By: T.J. Gottwalt, AHC, CDC, CSI, [...]
I can’t believe it has been 10 years already. I’ve seen a lot of remembrances in the media this week…it’s one of those moments in time when we’ll never forget where we were, what we were doing, who we were with, how we felt. I was about 6 weeks away from having my first child, [...]
It was a slow day for doors…this is the only door of interest that I saw, and it was the door to Zeke’s shed. It’s the door equivalent of “the cobbler’s children have no shoes.” It looks good from the outside, but the inside could qualify for a submission to ThereIFixedIt.com. Zeke and I spent [...]
These are the photos that I referred to in my post about Imperial Foods and the locked/blocked exits there. These photos were taken last week, illustrating that there’s still work to be done in awareness of egress requirements. This is a 7-story office building, and one of the two exits was closed off because of [...]
I need some help, and after giving the architect my suggestions I told him that I’d ask all of you for ideas. The building in question has a large assembly space on the 5th floor roof. There is a pair of doors that swing from the roof deck into the building. Everything was fine until [...]
Twenty years ago today, a fast-moving fire at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant killed 25 and injured 54 of the 90 workers in the plant. Although I think egress conditions and awareness have improved in the last 20 years, there’s definitely room for continued improvement. I frequently receive photos of appalling egress and fire [...]
This afternoon I had an appointment for acupuncture, and as I was drifting off into a needle-induced temporary coma (if you haven’t tried it, you should!) I was thinking about what I should post for Friday. Then I thought about how it seemed like such a short time between my Wordless Wednesday post and planning [...]
