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Escape routes: Practical guide to standard-compliant planning of escape door locks

Getting out of a building rapidly and safely in an emergency can save lives. Building regulations and fire protection regulations therefore require that, when planning escape routes in a building, a precise distinction is made between possible panic or…

Clearly laid-out escape route testing with new inspection logbook

ASSA ABLOY provides a logbook for the commissioning or maintenance of escape route technology, which clearly structures the resulting tasks.

Legal security for escape routes: How to be on the safe side when CE marking external doors

As a planner and door manufacturer, you must pay particular attention to ensuring that you fulfil all legal requirements for external doors along escape routes. Ulrich Rotenhagen explains how you can reconcile existing and new standards for the CE marking…

On groundbreaking design and the opportunities afforded by new standards

How can future standards be complied with in escape route technology today, while also taking design to a whole new level? Ulrich Rotenhagen has addressed these challenges and gives exciting insights into the story behind the new development, ePED, in an…

Lockpickers in action - on behalf of ASSA ABLOY

How burglar-proof is a lock or a locking cylinder really? In order to determine this, it is best to get expert advice. Like the so-called lockpickers, who have made it their hobby to "unlock" every lock. So it's a good thing that ASSA ABLOY in Berlin is…