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Delayed Egress Alarm Modules: What Specifiers and Facility Teams Get Wrong Before the Door Goes Live

What This Article Covers -- And Who It Helps Delayed egress alarm modules are one of the most misunderstood options in the exit device world. Specifiers order the wrong configuration. Facilities teams...

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Aug 17, 2026

From Signal to Secured: How Emergency Lockdown Systems Actually Talk to Door Hardware

What This Article Covers and Who It Helps When a building triggers a lockdown -- whether at a K-12 school, a hospital campus, or a corporate facility -- the door hardware has to respond correctly, imm...

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Aug 16, 2026

Fire-Rated Privacy Locksets: What the Spec Gets Wrong When Life Safety Meets Occupied Rooms

Why Privacy and Fire Rating on the Same Lockset Create More Problems Than They Solve This article is for facility managers, commercial hardware specifiers, and general contractors who encounter doors ...

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Aug 16, 2026

What Happens to Your Access Control System When the Power Goes Out

Why Backup Power Is a Core Part of Any Access Control Design This article explains how battery backup works in commercial access control systems, what happens to electrified door hardware when buildin...

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Jul 23, 2026

Panic Hardware in Assembly Occupancies: What the Occupant Load Threshold Actually Triggers

What This Article Covers and Who It Helps If you are specifying, bidding, or inspecting door hardware in a theater, arena, conference center, house of worship, banquet hall, or any other assembly-use ...

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Jul 13, 2026

Fire Door Inspector Certification: What the FDAI Credential Actually Requires and Why It Changes Your Inspection Walk

Who This Article Is For and What It Covers This article explains the fire door assembly inspector (FDAI) certification process, what the credential actually tests, and how the inspection checklist con...

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Jul 7, 2026

Wide-Stile vs Narrow-Stile Exit Devices: Choosing the Right Panic Hardware for Your Door

Why Door Stile Width Determines Your Exit Device Before Almost Anything Else This article explains the practical difference between wide-stile and narrow-stile exit devices, who needs to care about th...

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Jul 3, 2026

The Rim Strike on a Mullion-Free Door Pair: Why the Meeting Stile Clearance Gets Ignored Until the Panic Hardware Binds

Why the Rim Strike on a Mullion-Free Pair Is Not an Afterthought This article is for commercial contractors, facility managers, and architects who are specifying or installing rim exit devices on pair...

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Jun 26, 2026

Latchbolt Monitoring on Fire-Rated Electric Strikes: Why the Auxiliary Switch Gets Ignored Until the Access Control Report Flags an Unlatched Door

What This Article Covers and Who It Helps This guide explains the monitoring outputs built into fire-rated electric strikes—specifically the latchbolt monitor and locking cam monitor found on heavy-du...

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Jun 14, 2026

Fire-Rated Electric Strikes: Why the Monitoring Outputs Get Wired After the Fail-Secure Decision Is Already Made

What This Article Covers and Who It Helps Fire-rated electric strikes with dual monitoring outputs -- latchbolt status and locking cam position -- are common on access-controlled openings in schools, ...

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Jun 8, 2026

Rim Exit Device Strike Alignment: The One Adjustment That Kills a Passing Inspection

Why the Strike Is the Last Thing Installed and the First Thing That Fails This article is for commercial contractors, facility maintenance technicians, and project inspectors who work with rim-mounted...

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May 16, 2026

Fire-Rated SVR Exit Devices: Why the Door Label Drives Every Hardware Decision on a Labeled Opening

What This Article Covers — and Who Needs It When a project calls for a surface vertical rod (SVR) exit device on a fire-rated opening, most of the critical decisions are already made the moment someon...

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Apr 23, 2026

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