TDSL Understand Healthcare Demands:

Healthcare environments are specific and can be harsh. Each carefully manufactured firedoor has to meet not only rigorous fire safety standards, but also the exacting special nature requirements of the room's purpose,access use and be aesthetically right.
That's why TDSL:
• Provide bespoke solutions - every door is special, especially in harsh environments like Healthcare.
• Offer an installation service to follow manufacturing performance right through to end use and maintenance for a seamless service
• Aim to make client relationships a first priority with a simple and well managed process, second nature with the right level of expertise when it's needed and third party certification of fire testing of all our products to demonstrate our quality and care commitment.
When choosing a Healthcare firedoor provider you might want to be sure our principles, understanding and experience match your requirement and that TDSL is the natural Healthcare door solutions provider.

Principles of Healthcare Through TDSL:

• A single contact point, coordinated fire doors, doorsets and hardware suppliers
• Fire door manufacturer
• Providing individual managed solutions
• Where each doorset requirement is treated in a bespoke manner to match the end Healthcare use
• A truly seamless approach through good relationship communications for reliability, trust and efficiency.
• High priority innovation and product development (pioneered independent, third party certified fire testing of our products and services in order to satisfy/surpass current fire ratings and performance standards)
       Providing evidence of:
       • Service life and durability performance
       • Compatibility and compliance
       • Environmental chain of custody certification.

Key Functional Requirement Possibilities:

To meet exacting healthcare requirements, TDSL provide a range of bespoke door solutions incorporating innovative features. To help guide your choice of materials and options, we have selected some typical considerations. Please contact us for further options and help. Customers welcome our adherence to high quality standards. To meet this need, we provide 3rd party independent verification of standards met, available here, listed in the design considerations - technical detail section or by contacting us. You may want to download our Healthcare Data Spec Sheet as a case study with structural diagrams, and to consider your detailed functional requirement possibilities:

Design Considerations - Overview:

• High levels of foot traffic.
• The consequence of buffeting trolleys.
• Attention to hygiene.
• Specialist and general areas, eg:
    • Ward doors.
    • General areas.
    • Consulting rooms.
    • Utility room.
    • Operating theatre.
    • X-ray and radio-isotopes - see data spec sheet on structures.
    • Laser shielding.
    • Hydrotherapy, wet room, bathroom and WCs.
    • Hardwearing materials / impact resistance.
    • Personal protection and security.
    • Acoustics – consulting rooms, MRI scanner/noisy equipment areas - see data spec sheet.
    • dB 30.
    • dB 35.
    • Seals – see data sheet.
    • Specialist standards.
    • Privacy.
        • Easily operated vision panels.
        • Standard and security locks.
        • Emergency access locks – flat key/coin or push peg.
    • Emergency access - see data spec sheet
• Excellent aesthetics with options which may include:
    • Doorsets.
    • Glazing panel - see data spec sheet.
    • Half door, kick plate or kick plate and mid-rail for improved corner impact wear resistance.
    • Hinges.
        • Closing mechanisms - see data spec sheet.
        • Solid pin hinge.
        • Finger protection.
    • Llocking mechanism.
• Door structure see data spec sheet.
    • Laminated timber core.
    • Particle board core.
    • Duracore.
• Door covering see brochure or contact us to discuss options fully.
    • Luxurious/Corporate doors with a stylish finish - timber veneer with anti-microbial lacquered.
        • Veneer options.
    • Practical and functional and modern with a 0.7mm choice of coating - laminate doors.
        • Resistant to microbe penetration, wipe clean.
        • Wood pattern.
        • Grey utility (range).
        • Themed bright / toned colour of the whole door or panels within it.
        • Logo/Image incorporated within covering.
    • Hardwearing, max hygiene and modern with a 2mm hard plastic finish - Plasdoor PVC.
        • Very resistant to microbe penetration and easy to clean with a very hard wearing surface.
        • Wood pattern.
        • Grey utility (range).
        • Themed bright / toned colour of the whole door or panels within it.
        • Logo/Image incorporated within covering.
    • Maximum durability and hygiene – metal doors.
    • Full glass doors.

Design Considerations - Detail - Applicable Technical Standards:

In addition to usual firedoor requirements:
• BS 476 Part 22 (1987),
• BS 8214 (2008) Code of practice for fire door assemblies.
• BS EN 1634-1 (2008) Fire resistance and smoke control tests.
Additionally:
• Health Technical Memoranda including (but not exhaustively).
   - HTM 58:2005.
   - Htm o5 fire safety.
   - NHSE (2004) 06: Automatic door release mechanisms - Hold open devices.
   - HTM 07 environment and sustainability.
   - Htm 08 specialist services.
• Health building Notes (HBNs).
• Other publications such as Health Facilities Notes(HFNs).

Design Considerations - Detail - Attaining and Resolving Standards:

Note:

There are conflicts between some of these documents, (many clarified by HTM58:2005 – Internal Doorsets (latest issue). Our proposals highlight any potential conflicts and our proposed solutions Eg:

Ideal requirement. Occasionally severe usage (of doors) quoted in HTM 58 ' The high performance standards required of door leaves, frames and ironmongery in health buildings can best be met when these components are accurately fitted and matched in a factory and delivered to site as a complete unit. '

Site requirement. Door frames need to be fitted at an early stage to allow vinyl floors to be interfaced fully up to architraves. Doors delivered to site too early are highly susceptible to damage, affecting both performance and aesthetics.

TDSL Solution
• Offers flexibility to assist with this issue by :-
• Manufacturing frames and doors accurately in advance using our modern factory facility
• Having the option to then   -  deliver complete doorsets or
   - Only deliver frames to site ( pre-machined out for ironmongery).
• Referenced and traceable profile doors are made to exact dimensions and will be sent to site to allow accurate early installation of the frames and to then allow a later installation of the door to provide the engineered values of a doorset whilst mitigating the risk of damage and the need for on site storage.
• TDSL can install and maintain the doorset for ongoing reliability and performance.

Range of Products and Solutions:

There are many options available from our bespoke range. These are some you might consider, however, please contact us if your requirement is not listed.
• Cross corridor doors with corporate finish and / or zone colours/images.
• Consulting rooms with good acoustics and variable vision panels.
• Utility room doors with high impact resistance and microbe resistance.
• Wetroom and Hydrotherapy doors.
• X-ray room doors.
• Personal protection and security.
• Emergency access doors.