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What do the fire regulations say about doors with access control?
That evacuation governs over control. The building code requires doors intended for evacuation to open in the direction of exit and with no more action than a push, and no access system configuration can contradict that.
In a real building you have to draw two opposite effects that happen at the same time when the fire detection goes off. Some doors have to be released —the ones on the escape routes— and others have to close: the fire doors that are open for day-to-day use and are held with electromagnetic hold-open devices, which release with the signal. It is decided door by door, written in a table and that table is hung on the panel.
And it is tested with the fire control panel genuinely triggered and a person at each door watching what it does, on the day of commissioning and at every inspection afterwards. It is the test most often skipped and the only one that cannot be improvised. The fire side also has its own maintenance regime, which is another conversation and another contract.
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