Promoting Aluminium Doors & Windows to the trade
Dorma Automatic Doors offer many door and entrance solutions Humans have been developing ways to automatically open and close doors since Heron of Alexandria devised an underground mechanism for a temple entrance in 100BC. Two thousand years later, there are more reasons than ever to specify automatic doors. Dorma are a leading provider of automatic [...]
Further comment from Dorma making an excellent point and written about here in the past about the DDA/Equalities Act and changing specification. …..the DDA has gone, this was replaced by the Equalities Act in October 2010, this encompasses what was the DDA. Again I should stress that new buildings are subject to Building Regulations and [...]
A range of options is available that enable compliance with The Disability and Discrimination Act and Document M legislation including low threshold and anti-finger trap sections. Building regulations on opening widths require that all doors in both domestic and commercial applications feature a minimum clear opening to enable persons of reduced mobility to manoeuvre through [...]
Always pleased to hear from Graham Hulland from Dorma Door Controls who I have known for many years. Graham has many years experience and knowledge in the field of closers and architectural ironmongery. He recently commented on a recent post on Is the DDA Being Ignored and I think his response deserves a posting of its [...]
We should all bear in mind that the Equalities Act is a civil law and hardware needs to comply. In speaking to several people in the hardware business lately, it transpires that they are still continuing to sell lots of non DDA Compliant furniture such as transom closers which don’t meet the required Nm of [...]
Adams Rite boldly state that only cam action closers will really meet the requirements of the Equality Act, BS8300 and Documment M Aluminium Trade Supply has written much about the requirements of The Equality Act, BS8300 and approved Document M. There is a requirement on the necessary buildings to comply with this legislation. It is [...]
Nylon Coated handles, warm to the touch, in a contrasting colour such as these will comply with the DDA Door handles, whether pull type or other under the Disablity Discrimination Act need to be able to be operated one handled without tightly grasping or any twist on the wrist. Some suggest that a simple rule [...]
An example of contrasting hardware on an aluminium door which can meet the DDA requirements. We have had to do a lot of writing recently due to the sheer volume of questions and requests we get on the DDA, suitable handles and other questions. In our final part for the time being on the DDA [...]
Installations such as this school require a good quality range of architectural ironmongery The range of door handles and architectural ironmongery is diverse in the marketplace. Specifiers, architects and fabricators have a very large choice and now there is the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act to comply with as well. Aluspec, a leading distributor [...]
Those involved with design and construction of buildings must work with the latest standards and legislation If you are disabled and need to go about your daily business, we have British Standards BS 8300:2009 Design of buildings and their approaches to meet the needs of disabled people Code of Practice. BS 8300 explains how the [...]
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