Hi all,
I hope you can help me. We have a small community centre which has one main door and one fire exit door. Currently the fire exit door is also being used as a normal entry/exit door as well (which I understand is fine). The fire exit door has push bars.
We would like to upgrade the fire exit door (in fact replace it!) with one with door buzzer/camera on the outside. That way access via this door can be granted remotely from an intercom once person has been identified. I am thinking of electronic fail open locks for this (which we would lock manually overnight when no one is in the building).
The other concern is that we no longer want push bars on the inside, as we want to control kids, and hence I am thinking instead to install one of those electronic green "exit" buttons that can be pushed to release the magnet lock, but we can place this high enough so that kids cannot reach and hence avoid opening the door and wondering off on the streets. Of course doing that will compromise the ease of exit, as this is supposed to be a fire exit as well. So was thinking of one of those break glass features that can override the magnetic locks by manually cutting off the power to the lock in case of emergency.
Now, my question is.... is what I am saying above all okay and possible and legal etc? is my purpose and application reasonable? basically I want the fire exit door to behave like the main door but with added break glass feature to override if required. But I don't know if the push bars that it currently has is a requirement, but having them limits what I am trying to do in terms of security from inside and outside.
any help and insight would be very much appreciated.
thanks!
Abe
