Function and Reliability of Entrance Design

Description

This seminar aims to offer an understanding of how user expectation influences door design, links this with hardware selection, entrance configuration and floor finishes to improve client statisfaction:

- The usage and user expectation differences between residential, light commercial and main entrance doors

- How this influences door design and weather performance

- Formal definitions of light medium and heavy duty door applications

- Commercial door construction, and the design considerations created by low thresholds

- Issues concerning ease of door opening, versus closer action, and weatherproofing the entrance

- An overview of entrance framing systems, its influence on aesthetics

- Safety legislation, Building Regulations and British Standards