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    Multifamily includes apartment entrances off a common hallway.
    Door Hardware

    Five Code Considerations for Multifamily Residential Buildings

    Lori Greene, DAHC/CDC, CCPR, FDAI, FDHI
    March 27, 2023
    Door openings play an important role in the safety of buildings, and multifamily residential buildings are no exception. Egress doors facilitate evacuation during an emergency...
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    Door Hardware

    Building And Fire Codes and the Locksmith

    Oct. 17, 2011
    Building and Fire Codes are such an important aspect of locksmithing that every locksmith should have a working knowledge of codes that affect your market area. Locksmiths should...
    Fire-rated office building doors. (We do not endorse this method of disabling the keyed lock cylinder)
    Electronics & Access Control

    Installing Locking Devices on Fire Doors

    Tim O'Leary
    Oct. 14, 2011
    Dealing with Fire Doors is a critical activity of locksmiths especially when deploying access control. This is because converting the means of how the door locks and unlocks will...
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    Door Hardware

    Conducting Fire Door Assembly Inspections

    Chris Clark
    Oct. 5, 2011
    The protection of life and property has always been a main focus of the locksmith profession. Often that focus has been directed on keeping the bad guys out, so to speak. Installing...
    Example of fire rated opening
    Fire security doors

    Fire Door Inspections Heating Up

    Oct. 5, 2011
    As locksmiths, we are ideally suited to offer fire door inspections. We spend most of our lives looking at and servicing openings and door hardware in order to protect life and...
    Door Hardware

    Exit Device Conversion

    July 6, 2010
    A lever lock-equipped fire door and jamb is converted to a rim exit device, while maintaining the fire rating.