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Specifications are an essential part of the design process, but not the most glamorous. If the specification is unclear or lacking detail, it will often result in the wrong product being installed. In the case of high-performance door products, it can mean costing a company time and money.

Just like golf has its own vocabulary, so do rolling steel doors. In the rolling door industry, you’re likely to encounter a host of new terms. Explore R-Value and U-Factor on the blog this week.

If a four-fold side door gets nicked in an emergency situation, it’s not a simple or inexpensive fix. The cost of ownership on these doors is high, as are replacement costs. In many cases, a damaged four-fold door needs to be replaced with a completely new one. The opportunity to replace sections of the door or have a new one shipped quickly aren’t likely, or cheap, options. Learn about better solutions such as Cookson's Extreme® 1024 High Performance Door or the Extreme® 300 Series Door.

While it is a sad reality that extreme weather events will continue to wreak havoc on communities, new and evolving construction standards have led to advanced code-driven building products solutions. From doors to windows, building envelope systems to roofing material, the A&D community have powerful new tools in creating safe rooms and hurricane shelters. At the heart of this evolution are FEMA P-316 and ICC 500 standards, both of which were created to provide guidelines and requirements that promote life safety.

Flesh-eating zombies and bloodthirsty vampires may star in many nightmares during spooky season. But true terror lies in unsecured building openings, creating at-risk buildings. What can you do to keep ghouls and goblins out on Halloween night, and bad actors away on all the other days of the year? The answer can’t be found by peering into a crystal ball. Instead, we’ve predicted your fortune using this store security guide.

How to keep the right products from being value engineered out of your building. The term "penny wise and pound foolish" has been around for more than 500 years - It's this phrase that comes to mind when someone mentions yet another phone call about "your shoddy roll up door that's breaking all the time."

A rolling fire door must be maintained to be in a continuous and reliable state of readiness to secure a rated wall opening when activated for the purpose of protecting life and property from the spread of fire and/ or smoke throughout a building.

As you sit down and are ready to finalize your design or spec, you come across a few items that you’re not quite sure about. You took an educated guess regarding how many cycle counts the doors in your spec should meet. Now that you think of it, you’re wondering if the door needs a hood, or if the application calls for standard door or a high performance rolling door. If you’ve ever experienced a situation like this, you’re aware of how reassuring it can be to talk to people who know their stuff. At CornellCookson, our dedicated Architectural Design Support (ADS) Team can assist in tackling the challenges above and other issues head-on. We’ve gathered a few answers to some of the most common questions we hear from architects in this week’s blog.