Door Hardware

Wayfinding: Guide The Way With Color

I would like to share this article on color and wayfinding.  It ran last month in Facility Executive magazine:

By Sandra Matheny

Color has always played a role in how we react to the world. In our daily lives, we may avoid traffic routes lined with orange traffic cones or yield to the flashing red lights that alert us of an emergency. In architectural environments, colored materials and surfaces can be deployed as informational design elements to save lives or simply to point us toward a parking garage. We might not consciously remember learning the color code, but it’s undeniably central to how we navigate our environments. It is a wayfinding tool as well.

Read the full article here: facilityexecutive.com

Commercial Doors and Door Hardware as Design Elements

Commercial Doors and Door Hardware as Design Elements

I’ve been wondering: who typically selects the commercial doors and hardware for the projects you’re working on? I really want to know. In fact, I’ve been asking this question in the Architectural Practices and End User Organizations I’ve visited across the U.S.

Based on the responses I’ve gotten, I can tell you who’s not typically selecting commercial doors and hardware: Designers.

How LEED v4 Impacts Doors & Hardware, and Promotes a Whole-Building Approach to Sustainability

How LEED v4 Impacts Doors & Hardware, and Promotes a Whole-Building Approach to Sustainability

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has implemented the newest version of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED version 4). This newest version of LEED is a complete update from LEED 2009 and features a host of new requirements that impact our industry.