Architectural Services
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Access solutions that balance design, performance, life safety, and accessibility
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From concept to construction
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Designing safe, accessible, and secure buildings comes with complex requirements, but you don't have to navigate them alone. dormakaba's Architectural Services team partners with architects and specification professionals to provide expert guidance, comprehensive specifications, and innovative access solutions that help streamline projects from design through construction.
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Frequently asked questions
FAQs
What is dormakaba's Architectural Services team?
dormakaba's Architectural Services team supports architects and specification professionals on access solutions for building projects, from design through construction. It combines a detailed project requirements review with market experience to help specify door hardware, entrance systems and access control that balance design, performance, life safety and accessibility.
What does dormakaba provide for a door hardware specification?
dormakaba's specification and design development support produces coordinated hardware schedules, specification language and wiring diagrams for a project. It also supplies independent test certification and sustainability documentation, plus product-specific performance and certification documents used to evidence compliance with building standards.
How does dormakaba help with life safety and building code requirements?
dormakaba's Architectural Services team provides a life safety evaluation that helps reconcile building code requirements with access control needs on the same opening. Its regulatory standard and compliance guidance covers the applicable legal frameworks and building standards, and supplies the product certification documents that evidence them.
Can dormakaba help coordinate access control with door hardware?
Yes. dormakaba's solution and security development support covers project requirements and security coordination across system components, so mechanical hardware, electronic access control and entrance systems are specified as one coordinated system. A risk assessment evaluates the security and safety factors and translates them into practical control measures and product selection.
How does dormakaba support BIM and design documentation?
dormakaba provides BIM support for project development, working from spreadsheets, AutoCAD drawings or text files. For larger openings work, EntriWorX Planning is an architectural software service designed to minimize design variations, RFIs and change orders across a project.
How do architects get started with dormakaba's Architectural Services?
Architects and specification professionals can contact dormakaba's Architectural Services team directly through the inquiry form on this page, or via dormakaba's architectural specification expert support. Sharing the project requirements up front lets the team begin with a project requirements review and stakeholder engagement before the specification is written.