Electric Locking for Fire and Escape Doors

Description

This CPD will discuss electric locking for fire and escape doors. Topics covered include Building Regulations, legislation, and best practice and standards. It will also discuss the traditional requirements for Escape and Panic doors - as defined in BS EN 179 for Emergency Escape Hardware and BS EN 1125 for Panic Escape Hardware - and the newly published BS EN 13637 standard for Electrically Controlled Escape doors. This seminar will help to ensure correct design that maintains the fire and escape strategies for the building. By the end of the CPD you should have a greater understanding of:

- The different types of Access Control Systems and basic requirements and considerations for fire safety when incorporating Access Control in commercial buildings

- The difference between the requirements fire doors and escape doors

- Relevant harmonised standards, CE certification and Construction Products Regulation and its impact on correct specification

- Dynamic Lockdown and how this can be considered in the specification

- The electric locking options available to suit different risks

- How to ensure that electric locking specifications meet the specific requirements of Fire and Escape door applications

- The relevance of CE certification, Standards performance testing and correct application.

This CPD can be delivered to you live and remotely.