Each of the articles below has been published in an industry journal – Doors & Hardware, Construction Specifier, Life Safety Digest, or Locksmith Ledger. Because the articles span across several years and several editions of the codes, the code adopted in a specific jurisdiction may differ from the requirements described in the articles.
Click below to jump to a specific topic:
Intro to Codes
Accessibility
Egress and Life Safety
Electrified Hardware
Fire Door Assemblies
Health Care Facilities
Safety Glazing
School Security
Miscellaneous
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Intro to Codes
- The Foundation of Codes – 3 Fundamental Questions
- Locksmith Ledger: Codes Matter – For the Safety of Building Occupants, AND Your Bottom Line
- Decoded: Small Assembly Occupancies
- Decoded: Alternative Methods and Equivalency
- Decoded: Safe Dispersal Area Within a Fence or Enclosed Court
- Decoded: Calculating the Occupant Load
- Decoded: Use Groups and Occupancy Classifications
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Accessibility
- Decoded: The Impact of Codes on Traffic Doors
- Decoded: Automatic Operators on Accessible Public Entrances
- Decoded: Door & Gate Hardware for Swimming Pools
- Decoded: Opening Force vs. Operable Force
- Decoded: Touchless Solutions for Healthy Environments
- Decoded: Barricade Devices and the ADA
- Decoded: Projections into the Clear Opening Height of Doors
- Decoded: Thresholds and Changes in Level
- Decoded: Locks Used Only for Security Purposes
- Decoded: Signage for Automatic Doors
- Decoded: Potential Automatic Operator Changes
- Decoded: Deadbolts in a Means of Egress
- Decoded: Upcoming Accessibility Changes
- Classroom Security Considerations
- Decoded: Locations for Vision Lights and Viewers
- Decoded: New Requirements For Pedestrian Automatic Door Operators and Sensors
- Decoded: Requirements for Door-Related Signage
- Decoded: Screen Doors and Doors in a Series
- Doors & Hardware: 6 Accessibility Changes to Watch Out For
- Decoded: Fair Housing Act
- Construction Specifier: Understanding New Accessibility Requirements for Doors
- Decoded: Operable Force for Door Hardware
- Decoded: Clear Opening Width and Height
- Decoded: Actuators for Low Energy Operators
- Decoded: Tactile Warning
- Decoded: Mounting Heights for Door Hardware
- Decoded: Opening Force and Closing Speed
- Decoded: Flush Bottom Rails
- Decoded: Auto Operators – Stand-By Power
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Egress & Life Safety (refer to separate section below for electrified hardware)
- Decoded: Turnstiles in a Means of Egress
- Decoded: The Impact of Codes on Traffic Doors
- Decoded: Locking assailants outside without trapping occupants inside
- Decoded: Key-Operated Locks
- Decoded: SCIF Security and Egress Requirements
- Decoded: 2021 Model Code Update – What’s New?
- Decoded: Egress From Exterior Spaces
- Decoded: Doors Provided for Egress Purposes
- Decoded: Projections into the Clear Opening Height of Doors
- Decoded: Two Releasing Operations for Egress
- Decoded: Update on Roof Doors
- Decoded: Locks Used Only for Security Purposes
- Decoded: Code Requirements for Hotels and other Residential Occupancies
- Decoded: Deadbolts in a Means of Egress
- Decoded: NFPA 3000
- Classroom Security Considerations
- Decoded: Manually-Operated Sliding Doors
- Decoded: Panic Hardware Requirements for Rooms Housing Electrical Equipment
- Decoded: Securing Parking Garages
- Decoded: Panic Hardware Refresher
- Decoded: Flush Bolts and Coordinators
- Decoded: Dwelling Unit & Sleeping Unit Entrance Doors
- Decoded: Balconies, Terraces, and Courtyards
- Decoded: Change to BHMA Standard for Exit Devices
- Decoded: Delayed Egress vs. Controlled Egress
- Construction Specifier: Understanding Code Requirements for Panic Hardware
- Decoded: Egress Terminology
- Decoded: Calculating the Egress Width of Door Openings
- Locksmith Ledger: Code Implications for Mechanical Hardware
- Decoded: Key-Operated Locks
- Decoded: Annual Inspection of Egress Doors
- Decoded: Panic Hardware on Electrical Rooms
- Decoded: Door Swing and Encroachment
- Decoded: Roof Access and Egress
- Decoded: Luminous Egress Path Markings
- Decoded: New Occupant Load Requirements for Panic Hardware
- Decoded: Manual Flush Bolts
- Decoded: Single Operation Egress
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Electrified Hardware
- What’s Next? Approved changes to the 2024 IBC affecting electrified hardware
- Decoded: Special Locking Arrangements vs. Normal Locking Arrangements
- Locksmith Ledger: Model Code Comparison – Controlled Egress Locking Systems
- Locksmith Ledger: Model Code Comparison – Delayed Egress Locking Systems
- Decoded: Control Vestibules in a Means of Egress
- Decoded: 2021 Model Code Update – What’s New?
- Decoded: Electrified Locking Systems – Which Code Sections Apply Where?
- Decoded: Touchless Solutions for Healthy Environments
- Security Sales & Integration: Cracking the Code
- Decoded: Access-Controlled Egress Doors
- Decoded: Model Code Changes for Delayed Egress Locking Systems
- Decoded: Stairwell Reentry
- Decoded: Code Requirements for UL 294 – Standard for Access Control System Units
- Decoded: Delayed Egress vs. Controlled Egress
- Decoded: Electrified Hardware Refresher
- Locksmith Ledger: Fire Doors: The First Line of Defense
- Decoded: Elevator Lobby Egress
- Locksmith Ledger: Special Egress Locks in I-2 Occupancies
- Decoded: Permits for Access Control
- Construction Specifier: Code Requirements for Doors with Access Control
- Decoded: Doors with Access Control
- Decoded: Fail Safe vs. Fail Secure – When and Where?
- Decoded: Electric Strikes on Fire Doors
- Decoded: IBC – Electromagnetically Locked Egress Doors
- Locksmith Ledger: Code Requirements for Electromagnetic Locks
- Decoded: Delayed Egress Hardware – Code Comparison
- Locksmith Ledger: Decoded: Stairwell Reentry – Myths & Facts
- Decoded: Stairwell Reentry – Myths & Facts
- Decoded: I-2 Special Egress Locks
- Decoded: NFPA 72 on Access Control
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Fire Door Assemblies
- Construction Specifier: Fire door safety: How can specifiers help?
- Decoded: Allowable Clearances for Fire Door Assemblies
- Decoded: FAQs on Fire Door Requirements for Health Care Facilities
- Decoded: The importance of fire doors in residential occupancies
- Decoded: Smoke Door Requirements of the International Building Code
- Decoded: Fire Door Assembly Inspections in Multi-Unit Residential Buildings
- Decoded: 2021 Model Code Update – What’s New?
- Decoded: Extraneous Labels on Fire Door Assemblies
- Decoded: Thresholds and Gasketing for Fire Doors and Smoke Doors
- Locksmith Ledger: What’s a fire door for?
- Construction Specifier: Smoke Doors vs. Fire Doors – What’s the Difference?
- Decoded: Where are fire door inspections required by code?
- Decoded: Code Requirements for Hotels and other Residential Occupancies
- Decoded: Temperature-Rise Doors
- Decoded: Alterations to Fire Door Assemblies
- Decoded: Protection Plates on Fire Doors
- Decoded: Fire Door Assembly Classifications
- Decoded: Temperature-Rise Doors
- Decoded: Requirements for Door-Related Signage
- Decoded: Flush Bolts and Coordinators
- Decoded: Dwelling Unit & Sleeping Unit Entrance Doors
- Decoded: NFPA 80 Requirements for Hinges
- Decoded: Fire-Protection-Rated vs. Fire-Resistance-Rated Assemblies
- Decoded: Communicating Doors Between Sleeping Rooms
- Decoded: Fire Door Closing Cycle
- The Effect of Oversized Clearances on Fire Door Tests
- Life Safety Digest: Multi-Family Fire Door Safety – The Role of Fire Doors
- Decoded: Terminated Stops and Door Bottom Seals
- Construction Specifier: Fire Doors – Everything you always wanted to know (but were afraid to ask)
- Decoded: NFPA 80 – 2013 FDAI Changes
- Decoded: Fusible Links and Smoke-Actuated Hold-Opens
- Locksmith Ledger: Code-Compliant Doors: What to Look For
- Decoded: Less Bottom Rod Fire Exit Hardware
- Life Safety Digest: Fire Door Inspection – Top 10 Deficiencies
- Decoded: Opening Protectives
- Decoded: Closers on Classroom Doors
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Health Care Facilities
- Decoded: FAQs on Fire Door Requirements for Health Care Facilities
- Locksmith Ledger: Model Code Comparison – Controlled Egress Locking Systems
- Locksmith Ledger: Model Code Comparison – Delayed Egress Locking Systems
- Decoded: Corridor Doors in Health Care Occupancies
- Decoded: Double-Egress Pairs in a Health Care Occupancy
- Decoded: Deterring Elopement in Health Care Facilities
- Decoded: Changes to the Life Safety Code for Health Care Occupancies
- Decoded: Delayed Egress vs. Controlled Egress
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Safety Glazing
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School Security
- Decoded: Locking assailants outside without trapping occupants inside
- Decoded: Safe and Secure Schools
- Decoded: Barricade Devices and the ADA
- Decoded: Two Releasing Operations for Egress
- Decoded: Why Barricade Devices?
- Decoded: NFPA 3000
- Decoded: Model Code Changes for Delayed Egress Locking Systems
- Classroom Security Considerations
- Classroom Security AND Classroom Safety – Why Compromise?
- Decoded: School Security Update
- Barricade Device Update
- Barricade Device? Think Twice!
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Miscellaneous
- Decoded: US General Services Administration (GSA) Facilities Standards
- Decoded: International Energy Conservation Code Requirements for Vestibule Doors
- Decoded: Celebrating 10 Years of Codes…and Beyond!
- WW: NUMBER 100??
- Decoded: Crossword Puzzle – Part 2
- Decoded: Crossword Puzzle – Part 1
- Decoded: Update on Storm Shelter Doors
- Decoded: Test Your Knowledge
- The Palladium – Carmel, Indiana
- Decoded: What do you know?
- Doors of Morocco