Optimizing the Building Envelope

A college campus is a microcosm of the world. Each of the many different types of buildings—classrooms, labs, performance spaces, healthcare facilities, administrative offices, libraries, computer labs, athletic complexes, dining halls—may require different door opening solutions. Despite these challenges, there are certain needs that remain the same across all buildings.

Updating Access Control

Access control on college campuses is complex and critical. There can be thousands of cardholders who need access to different buildings at any time of day. Security needs may vary drastically from building to building, so it is important to consider the specific needs of each building. At the heart of all campus access control is the student campus card. Many campuses still use legacy magstripe card technology, but the majority are moving toward smart card credentials and mobile access. Multi-technology readers and locks can easily facilitate a migration that supports magstripe cards, smart cards and mobile access all at once—providing a cost-effective solution for transitioning to higher security credentials.

Streamlining Visitor Management

Effective visitor management is incredibly important on college campuses. Maintaining a welcoming atmosphere while streamlining the process is critical to making a great first impression. Our solutions allow organizations to automate the entire process of registering a visitor, printing a badge, and capturing detailed information in seconds—by simply scanning a visitor’s existing ID.

Ensuring Safe, Efficient Egress

Safety always comes first in an educational setting. Exit devices—a requirement for high traffic egress doors—are often the first line of defense against intruders and tend to take the most abuse. Available with a wide range of options like electric latch retraction, delayed egress and dogging, ASSA ABLOY Group brands offer the industry’s strongest, most durable exit devices.

Providing Ease of Opening

Door operators address a number of facility challenges, from ADA compliance to heavy-duty usage. Automatic door opening via push button or hands-free methods make entry and exit easy. Special operator functions like Obstruction Detection and Push and Go help to keep users safe, while Power Close and Latch Assist ensure doors overcome issues like stack pressure to close and latch properly. Whatever your door control challenge, ASSA ABLOY can meet your code compliance, fiscal and functional needs.

Increasing Energy Efficiency

Doors and frames play a large role in improving the overall energy efficiency of a facility by minimizing thermal and air leakage. ASSA ABLOY Group brands offer door assemblies and door components like thermal break or kerf frames, gasketing, thresholds and door bottoms that drastically reduce heat transfer—both through the door itself and around the gaps between the door and frame. Special consideration of electrified openings can reduce power consumption even further through use of electronic access control (EAC) technologies, which can utilize existing WiFi or Power over Ethernet (PoE) equipment.

Simplifying Key Control

Mechanical keys can be difficult and cumbersome to manage, especially for an entire campus. Intelligent keys allow you to respond quickly to lost or stolen keys or personnel changes without the time and expense of physically rekeying locks. This provides an affordable option for critical enhancements to campus security.

Withstanding the Force

Local/federal codes and geography determine whether specialized door openings are needed to protect your facility against explosions and excessive force winds, even hurricanes and tornadoes.

ASSA ABLOY offers door opening assemblies that are third-party certified to meet blast, hurricane, windstorm and tornado resistance codes to ensure your campus will continue normal operations and serve the community in an explosive or weather-related crisis.

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