Creating a safe and secure world

Protecting building occupants from blast effects is an international focus of current research and development. Until recently the challenges of designing a sliding door system that can be positioned within the building structure, capable of withstanding the blast overpressures typically presented by a vehicle bomb has precluded the use of bi-parting doors for this function.

This has meant that designers and architects have been unable to incorporate a blast resistant, automated door systems into their projects.

Ingersoll Rand’s automatic doors are designed to protect building occupants from the effects of an explosion, such as high-velocity shards of glass and the effects of a door being projected into an occupied area, An additional aim was to ensure that, after the “event” security of the doors from intruders is not unduly compromised.