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Our various Florida divisions and websites for security, maintenance, and construction products or services has been placed under CDA Solutions, Inc., and this corporate headquarters blog will provide news and advice from our division websites:

• Commercial Door and Access for door and access control products or services
• CDA Alliance for corporate client information

Our new organization with CDA Solutions, Inc. as the parent corporation will be followed soon with the opening of our corporate headquarters building at 1701 Robert J Conlan Blvd NE #1, Palm Bay, Florida 32905 USA. In addition, we opened a new satellite office at CDA Solutions, Inc., 936 9th Way, Unit D5, Vero Beach, Florida 32960 USA.

We cover Central Florida communities serving Brevard County including Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach, Indialantic, Indian Harbour Beach, Malabar, Melbourne, Merritt Island, Palm Bay, Port Canaveral, Port Saint John, Satellite Beach, Titusville, Indian River County including Roseland, Sebastian, Vero Beach, Wabasso, Winter Beach, and Saint Lucie County including Fort Pierce, Hutchinson Island, Port Saint Lucie, and Martin County for Hobe Sound, Indiantown, and Port Mayaka.

Our news and advice blog will cover the following topics: access, advice, camera, cctv, construction, controls, doors, florida, gates, handicap, inspection, installation, locks, lubricant, maintenance, news, products, reviews, safety, security, and service.

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On May 7, 2007, another installment from the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. DOJ was released adding chapters 5 and 6 to their series of technical assistance documentation for state and local officials. Commercial buildings and government facilities within Central Florida are subject to the code requirements for door and access construction, and our company can help.

Government and commercial businesses are expected to comply with building code and requirements of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in their programs, services, activities, and facilities. Commercial Door and Access is ADA compliant, and stands ready to assist with advice for new construction or retrofit of existing buildings.

Here is a link to the latest information just released entitled ADA Best Practices Tool Kit for State and Local Governments. As stated on the home page of our main website, we stay on top of ADA developments for our Florida clients, so call or email us if you have any questions about ADA compliance and your next project.

As you review safety and procedures for exit doors in your Florida commercial business, the most important thing to remember about safety is ease of use. When someone needs to get out of a building they must be able to leave without having to ask directions to exit signs, get special tools like keys to open doors, or have special knowledge and training to operate locks. All openings must be capable of activation with one motion such as lever handles.

If several people congregate in a room, all your exits must be able to open with very little outward force by leaning into a safety device like panic bars. Your Fire Marshall is the one who will make final decisions for his jurisdiction, so do not buy hardware for your property without getting their okay or from your local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ). You can always find out who that is through your local Florida community or city building department.

These rules are interpreted differently by whoever reads them. For example, when I took a class on the subject our two instructors were not in agreement with many of the issues. This brings me to a simple conclusion; they get paid to make decisions, so go ahead and let them, but if the project is long term or there are several of them in that office, get approvals in writing.

When I decide on a certain way I want to set up my commercial door safety hardware I will normally bring floor plans in with a hardware schedule and say “This is the way I think will be best.”, and ask for advice on any weakness in the plan. Work with local Florida commercial building authorities a few times and they will know you well enough that they will tell you to quit bothering them. When you’re really up on the material they may call you for special advice, and may even recommend your company as the experts that will get the job done right.

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