Education for everyone in AEC who touches the opening: design professionals, distributors, manufacturer reps, contractors, code officials, and facility teams. Written and taught by credentialed consultants who spend the year on the specification side of the table.
Start a Training Inquiry Browse the CE CatalogIndependent instruction exists so the industry can trust what it learns. The curriculum is written to the code and the standards, with no product agenda in the room.
Instructors who write and review openings specifications for architects and owners, and arrive knowing where the drawings and the field disagree.
Architects and spec writers, distributor and rep teams, contractors, code officials, and facility owners, in the same conversation.
Two days for a mixed room of twelve to thirty: counter and inside sales, estimating, project management, service, and outside sales.
Day one teaches the opening as a system: anatomy, the code stack, fire and egress assemblies, accessibility, reading a hardware schedule. Day two is application: A156 grading, defensible substitution, electrified openings, a failure clinic built on real failed openings, and the DHI credential pathway. Optional half day on transparency documents: EPDs, HPDs, and Declare labels.
Four hybrid units that pick up where the foundation ends, with two SPC trainers in the room on every delivery day and subject specialists teaching live by video.
Unit one electrified and life safety systems. Unit two specification and submittal practice. Unit three existing buildings and occupancy. Unit four building internal capability, so the program can end. Remote clinics hold momentum between units, with no travel cost.
FIELD RECORD · HANDS-ON HARDWARE CLINIC · LAS VEGAS
A room that suspects it is being sold to listens differently than a room that knows it is not.
Fourteen accredited courses on door hardware, life safety, and accessibility, delivered to your firm as a virtual or in-person lunch and learn. One hour, 1 AIA LU/HSW each; distributors, reps, and facility teams are welcome in the room.
EVERY ACCREDITED COURSE CARRIES 1 AIA LU/HSW. IDCEC AND GBCI DESIGNATIONS PRINT AS EACH REGISTRATION IS CONFIRMED.
| NO. | COURSE | CREDIT | STATUS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Commercial Door Hinges: The Basics | 1 AIA LU/HSW · DHI/AHC | ACCREDITED |
| 02 | Under the Weight: How Hinges Keep Doors Operating Safely | 1 AIA LU/HSW · DHI/AHC | ACCREDITED |
| 03 | Beyond the Butt Hinge: Continuous, Swing-Clear, Security, and Electrified | SUBMISSION PIPELINE | IN DEVELOPMENT |
| 04 | Lock and Latch Construction: Tubular, Cylindrical, and Mortise | SUBMISSION PIPELINE | IN DEVELOPMENT |
| 05 | Inside the Lock: Hands-On Cylindrical Hardware for Life Safety and Secure Egress | 1 AIA LU/HSW · DHI/AHC | ACCREDITED |
| 06 | Lock It In: Mastering Mortise Hardware for Life Safety and Secure Performance | 1 AIA LU/HSW · DHI/AHC | ACCREDITED |
| 07 | Open by Design: Lever and Pull Hardware for Accessible, Code-Compliant Egress | 1 AIA LU/HSW · DHI/AHC | ACCREDITED |
| 08 | Door Closers and Controlled Egress: Life Safety, Fire Protection, and Accessible Operation | 1 AIA LU/HSW · DHI/AHC | ACCREDITED |
| 09 | The Hidden Mechanics of the Swing: Pivots, Stops, and Door Control Hardware | 1 AIA LU/HSW · DHI/AHC | ACCREDITED |
| 10 | Sliding, Pocket, and Barn Door Hardware in Commercial Interiors | SUBMISSION PIPELINE | IN DEVELOPMENT |
| 11 | Designing Safer Doors: Ligature-Resistant Sliders and Pocket Doors | 1 AIA LU/HSW · DHI/AHC | ACCREDITED |
| 12 | Hardware Finishes: From ANSI/BHMA Codes to PVD | SUBMISSION PIPELINE | IN DEVELOPMENT |
| 13 | Code Compliance Without Sacrificing Design | 1 AIA LU/HSW · DHI/AHC | ACCREDITED |
| 14 | The Accessible Opening: ADA, ICC A117.1, and Hardware for Every User | SUBMISSION PIPELINE | IN DEVELOPMENT |
| 15 | Designing for Equitable Access: ADA Compliance, Door Forces, and Electrified Latch Retraction | 1 AIA LU/HSW · DHI/AHC | ACCREDITED |
| 16 | Push to Protect: Exit Hardware and Assemblies That Safeguard Life Safety and Code-Compliant Egress | 1 AIA LU/HSW · DHI/AHC | ACCREDITED |
| 17 | Fire Door Assemblies: NFPA 80 from Specification to Inspection | SUBMISSION PIPELINE | IN DEVELOPMENT |
| 18 | Secure and Free: Egress and Security in Schools and Public Buildings | SUBMISSION PIPELINE | IN DEVELOPMENT |
| 19 | Electrified Openings: Coordinating Division 08 and Division 28 | SUBMISSION PIPELINE | IN DEVELOPMENT |
| 20 | Electronic Locking Systems for Commercial Doors: Design, Coordination, and Specification | 1 AIA LU/HSW · DHI/AHC | ACCREDITED |
| 21 | LEED v5 and the Openings Specification | SUBMISSION PIPELINE | IN DEVELOPMENT |
| 22 | New Openings: Understanding the Health and Carbon Impacts of Door Hardware | 1 AIA LU/HSW · DHI/AHC | ACCREDITED |
| 23 | Digital Building Intelligence: Preserving Sustainability, LEED Performance, and Building Knowledge Throughout the Facility Lifecycle | 1 AIA LU/HSW · DHI/AHC | ACCREDITED |
The opening carries more environmental weight than its size suggests: metals and finishes, electrified power draw, and a replacement cycle measured in decades. We teach the industry to read that weight. Transparency documents, EPDs, HPDs, and Declare labels, run as a dedicated elective in Hardware 101, and the CE catalog carries courses on the health and carbon impacts of door hardware, LEED v5 and the openings specification, and preserving sustainability performance across the facility lifecycle.
There are over six hundred sustainability certifications in the market today. Our work is teaching the industry to sort that signal from that noise: which documents carry weight in a specification, which claims survive scrutiny, and where the real carbon and health decisions in an opening get made.
Our own program on the road: sessions, hands-on hardware clinics, and conversations on the state of the opening.
SPC Alliance co-sponsors ALL ACCESS with DHI: the industry's week for education, credentialing, and the people who write the specs.
A season at the opening, from the code to the profession that answers for it. Each episode carries accredited continuing education through a ten-question quiz.
A live session each month from the CE catalog: 1 AIA LU, live Q&A on real project examples. The mailing list registers first.
Division 08 By Design is the education platform of the SPC Alliance, an alliance of independent door and hardware manufacturers. The program exists because openings fail at the seams: between spec and submittal, between hardware sets and field conditions, between what the drawings say and what gets installed. Our instructors work those seams every day.
Our instructors recommend standards, carry a curriculum, and leave when the teaching ends.
The industry's openings knowledge is retiring faster than it is being replaced. The firms that carried the institutional memory are consolidating, the owners who hold what remains are at retirement age, and most available training arrives through a manufacturer and stops where the product line stops. The failures live in code. This curriculum follows the code and the standards instead.
Our instructors come from manufacturing, distribution, sustainability consulting, and technical services. They hold the credentials the industry recognizes and spend the year on the specification side of the table.
For training, it starts with a thirty-minute scoping call with your leadership team: who is in the room, what they need to get better at, and which programs in which order. A written proposal follows the call. Booking a lunch and learn for your firm starts here too.
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