Door Industry Journal - Winter 2015

Also online at: www.d ijonline.co.uk 108 THE door industry journal winter 2015 building hardware ALPRO ON DOOR DUTY AT ASDA IDF Aluminium has installed transom closers, hook locks and armoured keeps from Alpro at a new-build Asda store in Wealdstone, north London. The supermarket opened in the summer and is a 9,000-sq-ft site with ‘click and collect’ for the company’s clothing range, a bakery and rotisserie. For the building frontage, IDF Aluminium fabricated powered pedestrian sliding doors using Alpro deadlocks. These units are available in hook and bar versions and are used widely on sliding and swing aluminium door applications in the retail and leisure sectors. The bolt is five-ply laminated stainless steel with a roll pin that provides exceptional resistance to attack from a hacksaw. All Alpro deadlocks are designed to accept standard profile cylinders or thumb-turns. The pedestrian doors at Asda are part of an extruded aluminium curtain walling frontage created by IDF who have also supplied sign panelling. Plant room doors include Alpro’s overhead transom closers which are a means of hydraulically controlling the opening and closing of an aluminium door. The closers are contained within the transom header bar of a door and have dual closing speed to allow flexibility, three levels of spring strength, and 90-degree hold open facility. Keith Parry, Sales Director at Alpro, said: “Our recent leisure and retail projects feature a shopping quarter in Dorchester, Leisure World Colchester, hotel chain ibis and the Natural History Museum. These locations require discreet product design for heritage built environment areas, flexibility in holding force for our closers and of course compliance with the Equality Act (formerly the Disability Discrimination Act - DDA).” IDF Aluminium specialises in the design, manufacture and installation of aluminium doors. The door solutions are designed for use in commercial and public sector environments where volume of traffic may be high but maintenance costs must be minimised. DHF WELCOMES INSURANCE SECTOR’S TOUGH STANCE ON HOUSE BURGLARY The Door & Hardware Federation (DHF) has welcomed the insurance sector’s early acceptance of a new domestic door security standard designed to defeat a wave of house burglaries. A major UK insurance company is advising its domestic insurance policy holders to choose TS 007-rated security for their entrance doors. TS 007 security provides resistance against cylinder snapping and other forms of lock attack which are increasingly being used in domestic break-ins. Now the DHF, which represents the UK’s leading manufacturers of locks and door hardware, is calling on other insurance companies to follow the insurance company’s lead and encourage their policy holders to upgrade their door security. Said Michael Skelding, general manager and secretary of the DHF: “Cylinder snapping is an increasing problem and many homes are at risk from this form of lock attack. “The DHF developed the TS 007 standard, working with the Glass & Glazing Federation, BSI, Secured by Design and other industry organisations. We’ve been liaising closely with the RISCAuthority, the insurance-backed organisation that supports best practice in the protection of property and business. “RISCAuthority referenced TS 007 and other standards developed by the lock industry in their recent Guidance to Occupiers publication. We welcome the insurance company’s early adoption of the RISCAuthority guidelines and we’re confident other insurance companies will follow their example.” Cylinder snapping exploits a weakness in the Eurocylinder typically used in locks found in doors made from PVC-u and composite materials, which form the bulk of domestic entrance doors in the UK. It is a technique which allows burglars to break into a home in a matter of seconds. A wide range of TS 007 lock cylinders and door handles is available which are certified by the BSI Kitemark. Security to the TS 007 standard can be achieved by either a combination of a TS 007 cylinder (marked with one star) and TS 007 security door furniture such as a strengthened door handle (marked with two stars); or a ‘super cylinder’ (marked with three stars) that successfully resists snap attack without the need to fit additional door hardware. In both cases, the same degree of resistance against attack is provided. For more information about TS 007, and another RISCAuthority-referenced standard, PAS 3621, which is recommended for doors with multipoint locking systems, visit www.dhfonline.org.uk .