Door and Hardware Consulting

The best hardware specifications require vigilant coordination within the project team during contract document preparation, and with the door and hardware contractors and manufacturers during installation. Our involvement on your projects  provides this higher level of coordination, as well as an added layer of quality assurance, resulting in better installations for the design professionals, building owner, and building users.

Led by Rex Vanard, AWCWEST provides first-rate door and hardware consulting services for entrance door systems, automatic door operators, integrated door opening ssemblies, sound control doors, and custom doors and frames. We’ve consulted on hundreds of projects of all types, including healthcare facilities, airports, civic and community facilities, higher ed buildings, theaters, museums, commercial buildings, office buildings, hotels and resorts, mixed-used projects, retail, and corporate interiors.

SERVICES

Having an architectural background distinguishes us from other door and hardware consultants, who primarily come from within the hardware industry. Like you, we know what it’s like to juggle the demands of a project, and because we’ve been there ourselves, we’re better able to approach the task of specifying the right hardware at the right step in the design process, just as you would if you had a little more time and a lot more experience with door hardware.

As adept contributors to your project team, we work carefully to ensure door openings and details will successfully comply with your project’s regulatory, functional, security, budgetary, constructability, and maintenance requirements without sacrificing appearance or detracting from other aesthetic requirements. Beginning in schematic design and continuing through construction administration, we thoughtfully apply our expertise to fully integrate door and hardware solutions into your design and project delivery processes, meaning we accommodate the way you work and provide solutions to installation problems that don’t impact your design.

We also have great working relationships and maintain open dialogues with all of the major door and hardware manufacturers. We know their product lines, engage their representatives when necessary to address special applications, and assist with improving their existing merchandise, as well as with bringing new products to market that meet the needs of design professionals and building owners alike.

ELECTRONIC SECURITY HARDWARE UPDATE

Due to the prohibitive cost of security consultants and our clients’ reluctance to rely on the limited knowledge of design-build security installers, our role in specifying electronic security hardware has been expanding. For several of our corporate, executive, and museum clients we’ve been increasingly writing detailed Sequence of Operation descriptions for complex electric door security configurations in addition to preparing door and hardware specifications.

Ready to become one of our satisfied clients? Contact us today to find out more about our unmatched approach to door and hardware consulting services.