INDUSTRIAL DOORS

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

The JD Ross Maintenance headquarters facility near Portland, Oregon is Bonneville Power Administration's (BPA) newest base for transmission line maintenance crews and engineers.

The Schweiss liftstrap drive-thru doors and building met Net Zero Energy criteria; meaning that on an annual basis, the project produces as much or more energy than it uses.

Eight of the 11 bifold doors are 27' x 16', one other is 23.4' x 16' and the remaining two are 12' x 16'.

Windows on the building and doors have double-glazed low E-Coating and were manufactured with a “bird-friendly” grid etched into the glass to prevent birds from colliding with the glass surfaces.

One reason Schweiss doors were chosen was so they could use whatever cladding they wanted on the doorframe and they wanted to have super-thick R-30 insulation. They also wanted doors that opened to the outside so they wouldn't interfere with the bridge crane or overhead infared hehating.

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BPA Maintenance Building

ME Yacht Restoration needed some huge doors. ME Yacht Restoration of Holland, Michigan installed a 46' x 34' Schweiss hydraulic door and a 47' x 30' bifold door on their new state-of-the-art boat storage facility. ME Yacht Restoration can lift and store nearly any vessel on the Great Lakes. Their Kropf hydraulic trailer is able to launch and retrieve boats up to 100 tons. And is one of the largest (if not the biggest in the world) of its kind.

“Both doors are used primarily for the same purpose, to get boats in and out,” said Operations Manager, Eric Evenhouse. “Over the years, we have learned that clearance is a big issue for getting the big boats in - we wanted to get into a different market with the 70-plus footers. It always seemed that limitations were always height in these big buildings.”

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ME Yacht Restoration

Cubex Limited of Calgary, Alberta, Canada is a busy fabrication business that underwent an extensive renovation project. In order to get the best use out of their building they added eight Schweiss bifold/liftstrap doors for easy access.

Cubex Limited has been providing innovative equipment solutions to municipalities, contractors, and the energy industry across Canada and also been providing consulting services and equipment to the oil industry for over 37 years.

Their eight 14' wide 18' tall Schweiss doors were fitted with automatic latching systems, windows and are windrated at 90 mph.

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Cubex Limited

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

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

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

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston has added a new expansion of its artistic programming across Boston Harbor to the East Boston Shipyard and Marina. It presents artwork and public programs in a newly renovated 15,000 square-foot former copper pipe and sheet metal factory.

Convenient for this purpose were two very unique Schweiss bifold designer doors positioned at opposite ends of the building. The doors are each 15.9' wide by 19' tall. The bifold doors in this project are unique in that the top half of the doors is emblazoned with the ICA Watershed logo which overlaps the bottom half and still remains visible with the door partially opened. Translucent polycarbonate cladding also gives the door a glow allowing colors and light from inside the Watershed to show through.

“The doors were big with very robust frames, that's why we chose Schweiss.” said Nick Winton of the architectural firm of Anmahian Winton Architects. “We wanted to use a lightweight cladding material that was inexpensive and handled daylight well.”

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ICA Water Shed

Housed inside a Los Angeles 50,000 sq. ft. building, dubbed “The Tin Can,” a nickname referring to the pre-engineered metal Butler Building type, are photography studios that at times like to make use of available natural light. This light filters down through the building via rooftop custom-made Schweiss bifold skylight doors.

Two of the liftstrap skylight doors are 24' x 15.2' and four others are 23.5' x 14'2". In addition, two other 23.6' x 15' bifold doors were placed on the side of the building. The skylight doors have weatherproof electrical components and 1" thick clear glass panels to keep the elements out of the building.

The ground-level doors can be opened out to a small patio surrounded by a planter wall, creating a nice indoor-outdoor space.

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Tin Can Project

North Star Imaging, Inc., a Rogers, Minnesota manufacturer of industrial x-ray systems came to Schweiss for a 40' wide lead-lined door that would be put on a large booth used for x-ray inspections of long metal component products to find minute imperfections in the metal or welds.

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North Star Imaging