Door Hardware at Massive Athletics Complex Needs to Stand Up to Years of Use and Abuse
Door Hardware at Massive Athletics Complex Needs to Stand Up to Years of Use and Abuse
When facility managers at The Ohio State University (OSU), one of the nation’s largest campuses, set out to build a new state-of-the-art Recreation and Physical Activity Center (RPAC), they undertook one of the largest, most complex college facility projects in the country.A facility this big has a lot of pedestrian traffic to manage. Ohio State’s campus houses roughly 50,000 students. And the facility isn’t exclusively for students: it’s open to the public and faculty as well. This results in over 5,500 people using the facility everyday or nearly 300 per hour. When Ott, Inc. helped the project team develop a hardware schedule for the complex, it looked for components that balanced outstanding durability, accessibility and high aesthetic value. The university selected a variety of products from DORMA Architectural Hardware to meet the rigorous demands of the RPAC. (PRWeb Nov 15, 2006)