Case Study – Streamlining Collaboration and Speeding Up Door Specification

In any construction project, meticulous recording and management of door hardware is critical —although often prone to human error, so harnessing digital technology to fulfil this crucial job is a dependable, efficient, and agile way. Located in several cities around India, Edifice Consultants specializes in designing climate-responsive architectural structures that harmonize with their surroundings. The company’s work across commercial, residential, industrial and public service sectors has received multiple prestigious awards, while designing buildings for so many segments and industries requires broad and deep knowledge of complex standards and regulations. The experience and expertise of Assa Abloy has proved invaluable in this task. Edifice required digital software to streamline door specifications that can cut out manual mistakes and maintain the process’s accuracy – essential to efficient building design. Their chosen solution – Openings Studio – takes a rigorous approach, speeding up specification iterations to condense the revision cycle, improve time management and help hit Edifice’s ambitious project timelines. To date, Assa Abloy has provided Edifice with solutions for more than 750 fire-rated and non-fire doors via the Openings Studio plugin for Autodesk Revit. These include doors and door hardware suitable for data center deployment, among them mechanical mortise locks, exit devices, door closers and master-keying solutions from the portfolio of trusted brands such as Yale and Sargent. The Openings Studio environment also simplifies collaboration and data sharing among all project stakeholders. It helps manage openings over the full project lifecycle, from planning and estimation to installation and beyond. For these reasons, Openings Studio is deployed all over the world as a specification and ordering tool for building projects. It can deliver detailed door solution specifications directly to popular packages such as Revit and Archicad, drawing on a detailed database with color, size, thickness and certifications for every product; as well as installation and compliance information, Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) and more. “Openings Studio has always been helpful in projects,” explains Gaurav Nirmalkar, Designer at Edifice. “Personally, I have used it in three of the data centers and it never disappoints. The simple and crisp interface is a plus point. Recording and management of door hardware is the most important thing in the construction industry. Openings Studio is a good choice for it.”