GOVERNMENT/MILITARY

Getting 150 doors installed at one location speaks rather strongly about the quality and reliability of your door provider. But that's the current scorecard of Schweiss Bifold Liftstrap doors at Fort Carson, Colorado in Colorado Springs where the U.S. Army special heated maintenance shops called TEMFs (Tactical Equipment Maintenance Facilities) required strong doors for structures big enough for Army tanks and other special military tactical vehicles.

That meant special translucent paneling with enough strength to withstand the ‘blast load’ criteria that is part of the terrorist attack prevention now standard procedure at any military installation. This means heavier doors with bigger load requirements than would be used in a typical commercial environment. Special windows were also installed in several of these bifolds.

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Fort Carson

Schweiss has built large doors installed at various locations going back to 2008 for Cape Canaveral, Waco, Texas and Vandenberg AFB in California, and they keep coming back for more.

Their latest orders were installed on a new steel hangar at Cape Canaveral. The largest of the two is a Bifold LIftstrap door 90 ft. wide x 61 ft. tall. The second door is 40 ft. wide x 69 ft. tall. Each door is equipped wiith automatic latches and windrated to 150 mph. Bottom-drive 480 volt, 3 phase motors and patented Schweiss liftstraps do the lifting of these doors that exceed 53,000 lbs. The Schweiss Bifold Liftstrap/Autolatch door opens wide to enable rockets at Cape Canaveral to be delivered to the launch pad.

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Rocket Hangar Doors

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia, Illinois, 40 miles west of Chicago, is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics.

As part of the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab a 20.10' x 23.9' bifold liftstrap door was installed in the new 4,500 sq. ft. SBN Near Detector Building.

The door features gray liftstraps, electric photo eye sensors, warning lights and horns, a top-drive motor, automatic latching system and an emergency back-up system. The door is clad with glass on the bottom quarter and high performance light transmitting Kalwall® panels covering the top three-quarters of the door, both to identically match the adjacent east wall of the building.

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Fermilab

When Belgian Airforce military personnel at Aerodrome Beauvechain needed reliable doors for their new helicopter hangars they went with the quality bifold straplift door offered by Schweiss Doors. The hangars required the door motors and limit boxes to be weatherproofed due to the fact they were largely clad in mesh for ventilation.

The custom-made doors were all 64.3 ft. wide x 23.8 ft. high and upgraded to 47 mph wind speed and 4,188 lb. cladding load. In addition to that, the straplift bifold doors were fitted with autolatches, strap tension sensors, top overrides, photo eye sensors, bottom safety edges and internal and external beacon/sounders.

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Belgium Military Hangar

Newmarket, Ontario, Canada is a town projected to grow to approximately 98,000 by 2026. Due to these growing pains Newmarket was overdue for a new municipal operations building.

The new $20.2 million Operations Centre is a 65,000 sq. ft. facility meeting the Canada Green Building Council's energy efficient standards. An aluminum curtain wall on the glass bifold doors was something that they wanted for maximum performance and to look great. The building is heightened by 20 very impressive glazed glass Schweiss Bifold Liftstrap “Green” Doors. Ten doors on each side of the building are designed for easy access and drive-through capabilities. Adding to the attractiveness are large etched numbers on the glass of each door designed for the drivers and others coming to the building to see immediately which bay to go to. They also provide passive ventilation and reduction of the energy load.

The facility received the 2009 Award of Excellence from Canadian Architect Magazine for innovation and cutting-edge environmental features.

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Newmarket Operations HQ

Supplying doors for military bases is nothing new for Schweiss Doors, they've been doing it for years. Although Canadian Forces Base, Borden didn't have a need for specialty blast-proof doors like other military establishments, a recent building expansion project for its Ontario training school called for the use of Schweiss hydraulic and bifold liftstrap doors.

The seven-door order of Schweiss hydraulic and bifold doors was for a new 16,000 sq. ft. Mechanical Engineering and Training Building at the base, which has a tank display school for training mechanical and electrical engineers.

They chose four identical 18' 10" x 14' 5" bifold liftstrap doors and three hydraulic doors; one of which was 18' 3" wide by 8' tall and two that were 17' 11" wide by 8' 3" tall. The bifold doors are clad with glass and equipped with automatic latches, emergency backup-hand crank, remote openers, weatherproof electrical and door base safety edges.

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Armed Forces School

The Public Safety Building & Emergency Operations Center in Martinez, California is the new essential service facility that houses the office of the County Sheriff and Command Staff. The building is a public training and lecture hall set up to support media briefings in times of emergency. The glass hydraulic door opens to allow for more seating on the outdoor patio.
Photo Copyright: Kyle Jeffers Photography

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CA Emergency Ops Center