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Using Smoke Curtains in Multi-Story Buildings

Automatic Smoke Curtains Reduce Smoke Inhalation

Automatic fire rated smoke curtains installed in discreet areas, and deploy automatically during a fire can help block heat and are excellent at blocking smoke from entering the building’s rooms. Due to the natural chimney effect that…
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Boyle Heights affordable housing nearly set to rise

Boyle Heights affordable housing nearly set to rise

A long-vacant lot in Boyle Heights is well on its way to redevelopment as an affordable housing complex from developer Abode Communities. Metro, which owns the land the project would be built on, is formalizing a lease with the developer,…
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Introducing the Next Generation of Integrated Doors

Introducing the Next Generation of Integrated Doors

Conventional doors only account for about one and a half percent of construction dollars. But they are responsible for a full 20 percent of owner problems. This is because conventional doors contain parts from as many as 15 different…
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Escalators & Stairs With Fire & Smoke Curtains

Escalators & Stairs With Fire & Smoke Curtains

Both these items create a permanent breach in the compartment between floors. Using DSI Smoke Curtains this can be tackled in several ways depending on the strategy requirements. There is the option of using smoke curtains around the lower…
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SF’s 2nd tallest building is finally underway

SF’s 2nd tallest building is finally underway

A slightly soggy red carpet greeted city bigwigs and developers Thursday, as a morning shovel ceremony finally kicked off construction on what will eventually be San Francisco’s second tallest building. Mayor Ed Lee promised that rain…
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Door Systems launches new website

Door Systems launches new website

Door Systems is proud to announce our newly designed website Door Systems is the only company to provide code compliant integrated fire doors and fire protection smoke curtains that offer superior aesthetics, high performance and up front…
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