Cornell Commercial Rolling Doors and Security Grilles Blog

Our Architectural Design Support (ADS) Team was created to help you. With over 160 years of experience combined, they are ready to assist in your security rolling door, sectional door, or grille selection and specification process, whether you’re a dealer, customer, or someone who simply wants to learn more about the industry and products.

Visionaire MicroCoil offers enhanced security, increased visibility and airflow, and a dramatic and stunning aesthetic sure to set your retail store in shoppers’ sights. Check out our retail applciations sheet for more info.

When it comes to picking the right door for your building, there are many options, and it can be easy to get overwhelmed. Two of the options you may see in your research include rolling steel and sectional doors.

A high-performance door is like the Ferrari of the loading dock. It prevents energy loss, opens and shuts quickly, and keeps work flowing smoothly. It's important to look under the hood to make modifications and maximize the door's performance from time to time. That's why we've created this quick guide to help you make the most out of your warehouse dock door and your loading dock operations.

When searching for security options for your retail or parking facility that are still aesthetically pleasing, you’ll encounter a range of products—some better than others. But instead of opening 20 tabs and trying to compare choices with a multitude of clicks, we’ve made it easy by compiling our Grille Comparison Chart.

Just as a chef cooking with a scratched pan and worn out spatula won’t end his time in the kitchen with a culinary masterpiece, getting a fire door without a properly suited operator is a recipe for disaster. If the chef gets the right tools, cooking will be easier. If you arm yourself with knowledge about fire door operators, choosing the best one will lead to easier maintenance and a safer building.

All signs point to success in the cannabis industry, from booming business and increasing sales to ideally, a more relaxed public. But with all the benefits increasing, so do the risks, especially as marijuana is legalized across the U.S. (currently in 48 states for medical use and in 16 for recreational use), and more dispensaries propagate.

Security rolling doors are unsung heroes – securing building openings with their durable, customizable, and compact selves. Much like the stage crew dressed in black seamlessly sets up the next scene, rolling doors quietly go about their duties, smoothly running in the background. And that’s the main goal of a rolling door: to work so well and only need a daily once-over that it blends into the background.

In American public schools, it’s now considered a best practice to have a written protocol in place for how to proceed if a shooter opens fire on school grounds or inside school walls. But for architects who design schools, the planning starts much earlier, before the first brick is laid.