Fire Doors for Hospitals
Hospital buildings combine the densest occupancy load in a commercial project with the strictest compartmentation rules. A door here has to do four jobs at once: hold a fire compartment, survive being pushed by beds and trolleys hundreds of times a day, stay cleanable on both faces, and let staff see a patient through the leaf before opening it. Corridors are usually the evacuation route, so almost every door opening onto them is a protected opening, and the door leaves in a ward corridor are specified in far greater numbers than in an office building of the same floor area. Procurement teams therefore tend to buy ward doors, theatre doors and service doors as one package, from one supplier, so that hardware, finish and documents stay consistent across the building.
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- Door leaves in ward corridors are hit by bed frames and trolleys daily; paint and edge joints fail long before the fire performance does.
- Cleaning crews use chlorine-based disinfectants, which attack standard powder coatings and galvanised frames within a couple of years.
- Theatre and ICU openings need a sealed, low-air-leakage leaf, but the same corridor needs unrestricted evacuation flow — two different assemblies on one floor.
- Observation panels have to be fire rated glass with the correct glazing system; a plain tempered pane in a fire door voids the assembly.
- Handover packages are rejected at commissioning when the door schedule, hardware schedule and test evidence do not match leaf by leaf.
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- Installation: frame fixing must suit the wall type (masonry, drywall or steel stud); the gap between frame and wall is filled to the tested detail, not to site habit.
- Documents: keep the door schedule, hardware schedule, leaf marking and test evidence in one file per floor; commissioning inspections check leaf by leaf.
- Maintenance: closers and seals are consumables — set a six-month check and keep spare seals and closer arms on site.
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- Steel Fire DoorsWard corridors, stair lobbies and service rooms: the default leaf where abuse resistance and cleanability matter more than appearance.
- Stainless Steel Fire DoorsOperating theatres, ICU, CSSD and mortuary: stainless faces tolerate repeated disinfection and are wiped down without coating damage.
- Fire Rated WindowsWhere the corridor wall is fire rated but the design needs a vision line into a ward or an atrium.
- Door Accessories & Spare PartsClosers, hold-open devices, seals and vision panel kits matched to the leaf, so the whole assembly is supplied as one set.
Send the door schedule and opening sizes for a quotation — we will come back with a leaf-by-leaf proposal.