Archive for the ‘Codes’ Category

More businesses than ever are seeing a need for secure facilities, which in turn creates a need for top level security doors, and Mayer Door can provide doors that meet a wide range of security specifications. After all, a door represents the front line of security and provides the entryway into any facility.  Doors are especially important when entry should be restricted, and when high security standards are a must.

The DCID, or Director of Central Intelligence Directive, has a comprehensive list of base level physical requirements for SCIFs, or Secure Compartmented Information Facilities, and we at Mayer Door can both meet and exceed those standards in our secure doors. Most facilities’ needs, of course, are less extreme than those of the CIA, and we represent products to meet those as well.

The International Code Council has partnered with the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) to create an International Green Construction Code that will guide the design and construction of green commercial projects.

The initiative seeks to develop a regulatory framework for sustainable construction that is consistent with ICC codes and standards nationwide.  The initiative was launched in June 2009, and the first draft of the regulations will be presented this year for public comment.

“This will be the first time code officials, owners and designers will have an integrated regulatory framework to put into practice that meets the goal of greening the construction and design of new and existing buildings,” said Code Council CEO Richard P. Weiland. “Only a code that is useable, enforceable and adoptable will have the capability of impacting our built environment in dramatic ways.”