Hidden Danger – Glass Door Collapse in Asian Cities

We see many non-professional personnel wrongly concluded the glass door inspection. Common mistakes such as:

(1)  ill-understanding to the door construction;

(2)  ignorance to prolonged defects;

(3) non-complete inspection to the pivot hinge;

(4) poor understanding to the floor spring mechanism;

(5) absence of knowledge to the door frame to curtain wall.

The author has approached many Facilities Manager and found the widespread of issues happening to the glass doors design.  This includes ill-sizing of door leaf, wrong ironmongery, mis-alignment of the door frame, wrong fixing of the door leaf etc.

We GBE have been appointed as Professional Building Inspectors for thousand of facility and venues. . We have devised the systematical and strategy approach for glass door inspection, maintenance, design and preventive measures.

(The author has made the 4.5 meter height giant doors in 2017)

(The author has inspected the single leaf glass door with serious mis-aligned. The photo show the light pass through the void gap resulted by eccentric of door leaf.

Recently GBE has been invited to Singapore for conducting professional inspection.

Currently, we have launched webinar for well esteemed financial institution and we have delivered the glass door maintenance for Facility Management in large compound. You are welcome to approach us for enquiry.

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