Glass Entrances – A Review of Hardware, Codes, and Aesthetics
Continuing Education
Use the following learning objectives to focus your study while reading this month’s Continuing Education article.
Learning Objectives - After reading this article, you will be able to:
- Go over glass door styles and applications including storefronts, point-supported glass walls and floating headers.
- Review code criteria to ensure glass doors comply with fire, life safety, and accessibility requirements.
- Understand market trends that are influencing glass entrance design, including larger glass sizes and energy codes.
- Analyze critical considerations related to panic devices, including life safety issues, UL requirements and standards, ANSI/BHMA criteria, occupant loads, and opening force.
Along with the benefits of glass entrances come unique challenges. This course covers current trends in glass entrance design and key considerations for hardware requirements in all types of buildings. Participants will receive an overview of specification criteria to ensure entrances comply with safety, accessibility, and performance requirements while meeting the design intent of the project.
Photo courtesy of Rafael Gamo
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Mark Suehiro, has more than 25 years of experience in the architectural entrance systems and hardware field. His extensive knowledge of doors and entrances encompasses product engineering, testing, manufacturing, distribution, and new product development. At CRL, Mark leads a team of technical specialists in assisting architects, building owners, and contractors with the design, specification, and installation of code-compliant glass entrance systems. |