Commissioning a campus-wide door opening survey

Georgia Tech had already chosen its destination, a keyless future. To map the ground between the campus as it stood and the campus it wanted to become, the university brought in the Openings Studio Professional Services team for a consultative, data-driven survey of every door opening. Read more.

Partnering with an ASSA ABLOY specification and BIM specialist based in Spain helped coordinate the fast-changing information they require through design stage. They could quickly share alternative scenarios via the BIM model. Read more about it here. 

Specification for door and security solutions can be time-consuming. At Quatuor, ASSA ABLOY’s experience and expertise simplified and accelerated the process. The local team of ASSA ABLOY BIM & Specification experts handled specification details and kept the central resource up-to-date and transparent, so architects’ valuable time was freed up. Read more about it here. 

In Sweden, TM Konsult has worked with ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions on multiple projects including hotels, residential developments and public buildings. They range from 50 to more than 1,000 doors in size. Working closely with ASSA ABLOY consultants helps TM Konsult deliver complete proposals for compliant door environments at an early stage. With door experts on board, decisions are made quickly and discussions are faster to conclude.  Openings Studio is an integral part of their collaboration, making communication and specification flexible and efficient. Read more about this partnership.

The BIM team from ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions partners with property investor Structure Capital to make certain that transparent, up-to-date specifications for every door solution are available on demand. With Openings Studio, Structure Capital can connect every stakeholder in multiple teams to ensure an updated, properly specified design model. The software logs every change, so it is easy to ‘rewind’ to compare previous configurations of any opening. Read more about this collaboration.

As the construction industry becomes ever more digitised, it is important that project information is shared not only quickly, but also accurately. Building Information Modelling (BIM) is fast becoming the solution to deliver this, explains the team at ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions Benelux.

Working with ASSA ABLOY building information modelling (BIM) consultants helped Zarhy Architects and STUDIO PEZ maintain the flow of up-to-date information for a complex, constantly evolving project — and left them free to focus on creativity and delivery. Collaboration was key to successful design and building specification for the Broadcom R&D Center at Tel Aviv University.

When it comes to door schedules, it’s vital that communication and collaboration between the architect and specification consultant are set at the very beginning of the project. This is especially true when fast and constant changes to the doors and their requirements can lead to gaps and missing information. Learn how Matthew Warren, BIM Director for BSA Lifestructures increased his company’s ROI by streamlining communications between architects and spec writers and created better workflows by using ASSA ABLOY’s award-winning software tool, Openings Studio.