I recently conducted a lunch and learn presentation on the code requirements related to swinging doors in health care facilities, and as promised here is a list of resources with more detailed information about each of the topics I covered. I will add a link to the session recording as soon as it’s available, and here is a PDF of the slides. The Q&A from this session are available here.
Additional Resources
Fire Doors
- Decoded: FAQs on Fire Door Requirements for Health Care Facilities
- iDigHardware Fire Doors Page
- Update: Labels on Fire Door Assembly Components
- Decoded: Alterations to Fire Door Assemblies
- Decoded: Allowable Clearances for Fire Door Assemblies
- Decoded: Extraneous Labels on Fire Door Assemblies
- QQ: Does the Joint Commission require fire door inspectors to be certified?
Smoke Doors
- Decoded: Corridor Doors in Health Care Occupancies
- Decoded: Double-Egress Pairs in a Health Care Occupancy
- Decoded: Smoke Door Requirements of the International Building Code
- QQ: Gasketing Requirements of NFPA 101
- Decoded: Thresholds and Gasketing for Fire Doors and Smoke Doors
Electrified Hardware
- Decoded: Access Control Update
- FAQs About Controlled Egress Locks in Health Care Facilities
- Decoded: Delayed Egress and Controlled Egress Locking Systems
- Controlled Egress vs. Delayed Egress (video)
- FAQs About Electromagnetic Locks
- Code Update: Emergency Release Methods for Stairwell Reentry
- Decoded: Control Vestibules in a Means of Egress
- FAQs About Low Energy Automatic Operators
- Decoded: Touchless Solutions for Healthy Environments
As new posts related to health care are published on iDigHardware, they will be available on the Health Care page. The Articles page includes links to more than 100 in-depth published articles. There are additional short videos available on the Videos page, and longer presentation recordings on the Webinars page. You can download the Allegion Code Reference Guide here, and subscribe for daily or weekly notifications of new posts here.
If you have a code-related question, contact your local ACE (Allegion Code Expert).