By request, I have updated this article on smoke doors to include the requirements of the 2024 IBC. When you have a question about a smoke door, just decide which of the 5 types it is and refer to the section for that type.
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DoorCheck recently created a children’s book about school safety and security, and they allowed me to share it here. Read more from JB de la Garza, one of DoorCheck’s founders…
Jim Hooker of DH Pace sent me today’s Fixed-it Friday photo, looking for advice on how to add stops to these existing chapel doors. WWYD? Any ideas?
In 2025, BHMA published a new standard to establish methods for defining levels of acoustic performance of door hardware. The article linked in today’s post goes into more detail…
If one set of doors was lockable and the other was always unlocked (not lockable), I think this could be considered a dead end corridor. How would you have specified the hardware for these doors?
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In this Decoded article, I took a closer look at the requirements related to fire protection systems for doors with electrified hardware.
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I was recently reading a case study from TGP about a new secondary school project in Vancouver, BC, and it got me thinking about the buildings where I attended junior high and high school.
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I spent this week in Indianapolis, where I felt temperatures unlike any that I can remember experiencing in at least 25 years. Check out some of the doors I found on my trip in today’s post.
Here’s Part 2 of my post from Tuesday, addressing changes to the 2027 edition of the IBC permitting a second releasing motion for egress in certain types of rooms.
