A while back, I taught a class at a large university and was fortunate to have access to their fantastic training room. The university had incorporated many strategies to facilitate immediate lockdown in their classroom buildings, but this particular training room was in the facilities services building, not typically occupied by students or professors.
The lockdown method used in the training room was to attach a hex key on a lanyard to each door, so the panic hardware could be quickly undogged if the doors needed to be secured. In a perfect world I would use thumbturn cylinder dogging with a dogging indicator (see Mark’s post from yesterday), but sometimes you have to “make do.” Considering the use of the room, I think having the hex key readily available is a good compromise.
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This is a good idea for places like graduate and research areas, but I would have reservations on college campuses and DEFINITELY on K-12.
I agree, Krystina!
This room was in a separate building that was only used by employees of the university, and in some cases, visitors – like me. 🙂
– Lori
We do not allow allen wrench dogging on our campus This hardware could be easily converted to CDSI and use a mortise thumb-turn cylinder. All classrooms on our campus have a thumb-turn on the interior so that classroom can be locked from the inside. Rated openings use the Double cylinder option, non-rated use cylinder dogging. Most newer models all have an indicator on the interior to let everyone know if the door is locked or unlocked.
Hi Richard –
Thanks for sharing your insight!
– Lori