Unlocking Challenges: Understanding Codes for Doors and Door Hardware in Health Care Environments
Gain essential knowledge of codes, standards, and best practices for doors and hardware in health care facilities—equipping you to design safe, durable, and code-compliant solutions that meet life safety, security, and performance requirements.
About the live course
Specifically designed for health care architects and emerging professionals in health care design, this course offers a focused exploration of codes and regulations pertaining to doors and door hardware within health care facilities. The course will address the specific requirements for doors and hardware based on their use and occupancy, highlighting the critical need for highly durable, code-compliant, and safe solutions in hospitals. Key discussions will encompass essential aspects such as life safety, security, and long-term performance capabilities, detailing the basic regulatory requirements, various codes, and standards applicable to doors, especially those in a means of egress and their associated hardware. Attendees will gain insights into how door and hardware choices can impact design, learning practical tools for communicating door hardware and function and discovering potential solutions for compliance to effectively prevent unintended code violations.
- Understand the required means of egress in a building, its various components, and how this can relate to doors and door hardware.
- Discuss the different types of hardware commonly used in health care facilities and their code compliance.
- Describe the role of codes related to panic hardware, controlled access, and delayed egress.
- Discuss how occupancy and function can affect the types of doors that are specified.
Hosted in partnership with the Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH).
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