SECURITY DOORS

From Damage To Defense: Hatfield Courthouse Gets a Schweiss Upgrade. After sustaining an estimated $2.3 million in damages during the 2021 protests, the Hatfield Courthouse in Portland, Oregon took major steps to reinforce its security. Among the upgrades:
7 custom-engineered Schweiss Security Bifold Doors.

These doors now operate daily, providing general security while also standing ready to lock down the building in the event of future unrest. Designed to be both durable and reliable, the doors underwent rigorous testing - including:

• Three 30-minute simulated break-in attempts
• One 1-hour intensive break-in session
• Watertight sealing tests for all-weather protection

See the transformation - from post-riot damage to a fully secured entrance with Schweiss Doors

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Hatfield Courthouse Security Doors

Hard Feelings, a mental health counseling organization in Toronto, has taken a bold step in redefining its space with a beautiful custom bifold lift-strap glass-clad garage door. Installed by Prestige Contracting / Schweiss Doors at Hard Feelings' new storefront location on Church Street, it features sleek black lift straps that add a touch of modern elegance to the building's facade.

The Schweiss bifold garage door enhances the aesthetic appeal and provides a welcoming environment for clients seeking mental health support. This collaboration with Schweiss Doors reflects Hard Feelings' dedication to creating spaces that foster connection and healing.

Hard Feelings opened its doors in September 2017. In February 2023, it celebrated a new beginning at 353 Church Street, where it is reconnecting with the community and expanding its in-person counseling services. Hard Feelings' new storefront symbolizes a commitment to reducing barriers and increasing access to mental health support.

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Bifold Doors

Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) is dedicated to providing after-school programs to over 2,100 underserved LA youth ages 6-24. HOLA has recently expanded its offerings with a new 25,000-square-foot Arts and Recreation Center (ARC) designed by Berliner Architects.

HOLA's new ARC building, the “Clubhouse,” will expand its former reach to serve 600 students daily and 4,000 anticipated participants. The project uses shipping containers as its main building blocks, which allows for easy future changes. Container walls can be removed to connect rooms and combine spaces to form larger areas.

One of the ARC's main features is a massive 54-foot-wide by 14-foot-high Schweiss hangar door, affectionately called “Big Door.” The hangar door's unique design and flexibility also allow the Clubhouse to transform from a closed, intimate setting to an expansive, open-air venue.

The Big Door opens the ground-floor performance pavilion to the park and provides a dynamic and functional space for concerts and community events. This versatility is essential for HOLA's dynamic activities, from more clubhouse-style after-school programs to more open community gatherings.

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Bifold Doors

The JPMorganChase 60-story skyscraper headquarters is a stylish modern wonder in the heart of New York City. Designed by Foster + Partners, the tower's unique podium-finish shape offers highly sought-after rooftop spaces to the New York City skyline. It also provides convenient openings for aerial drones, window washing platforms, and other outdoor amenities.

The sustainable tower is covered in triple-glazed panels that integrate with glare-control blinds and HVAC systems for greater energy efficiency. Custom-clad Schweiss bifold and hydraulic doors blend seamlessly with the tower's modern look and feel and offer reliable entry and exit points to the tower's higher floors.

The Schweiss hidden hangar doors ensure smooth and easy-to-use operations. The tower's bifold designer doors are only one of many refreshing features of its flexible design focused on health, wellness, and hospitality, giving employees, clients, and visitors many reasons to come and stay.

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Bifold and Hydraulic Doors

Boston's Commonwealth Pier Unveils Four Stunning All-Strap Bifold Doors! As part of the ongoing renovation of the historic Commonwealth Pier in Boston, four custom Schweiss bifold doors featuring our patented lift straps have been installed to enhance the pier's functionality and aesthetic. These doors, measuring 36' 8" wide by 17' 9.5" tall, will serve as the loading dock doors for the future headquarters of Fidelity Insurance and a vibrant boutique shopping center at street level.

The customer chose Schweiss' strap bifold design over the hydraulic lift doors due to the limited space on the pier, and the doors are beautifully clad in copper plating, complementing the modern renovations throughout the pier. The renovations at Commonwealth Pier are set to be completed by 2025 and they are designed to withstand the challenges of Boston's unpredictable coastal weather.

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Bifold Doors

The Health & Sciences Innovation Building, designed by CO Architects, contains 9 stories with a variety of purposes for each floor. The ground floor, known as the forum, features a stage area with tiered seating.

On the front side of the forum stand three glass hydraulic Schweiss Doors which make up one full wall. The large 26' wide by 17' tall hydraulic window/walls can be opened to the courtyard beyond, creating an expanded indoor/outdoor space which provides an atmosphere of inclusiveness and encourages engagement, interaction and fosters connections.

Architectural Design: CO Architects
Photography: Timmerman Photography Inc.

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U of AZ Health Science Bldg

How do you make the loading dock area for your store secure, yet still easily accessible and stylish? This target store in North Carolina found the answer with two 39' x 17' bifold gates for their loading area. Give us your idea and we will get you the door.

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Target Security Gates

An approximate $11 million 47,000-square-foot facility will steer high school students onto the road of success. Bordering the north side of the Lone Star College-Kingwood campus in Porter, Infinity Early College High School (IECHS) in New Caney, Texas, is an innovative high school that allows students least likely to attend college an opportunity to earn a high school diploma and either an associate degree or at least 60 college credit hours toward a baccalaureate degree in the time it takes to graduate from high school.

Included in the building project are three Schweiss bifold designer doors with glass cladding. They range in size from 11.6' wide to 9.3' and all have clear opening heights of 7.75'. The liftstrap doors, powered by top-drive motors are equipped with electric photo eye sensors, door base safety edges and manual side latches.

The purpose of these doors was to separate the main area of the school from the kitchen. The doors are located completely inside the building.

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New Caney College/HS

The newest Solis Luxury Apartment complex in Seattle is the largest Passive House Certified multi-family building in all of Washington. The 45-unit complex has two ornate 12.10' x 15.7' Schweiss bifold liftstrap doors at the ground floor entrance leading into some shops within. The Passive House standards have better air and temperature control that is fresh filtered 12 times a day.
Photo Copyright: Meghan Montgomery

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Solis Luxury Apartment

Five Lift Strap Bifold Doors were installed at Bi-Rite Cafe, a coffee and ice cream shop kiosk on the sidewalk in front of the mayors office in San Francisco.

One main door stands at 49' wide x 10' tall. The others range from 8' wide to 17' wide x 10' tall.

The security gates/doors are positioned far enough away from the main counter to allow workers to stock and clean up even with the doors down.

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Bi-Rite Coffee Shop

It's been said that ideas are the source of innovation. They propel us forward, fueling new insights and breakthroughs. Capitol Hill's historic auto row; home of Pike Motorworks is the next chapter of renaissance, offering über-luxurious apartments and unrivaled amenities.

Adding to the historic look of this building are two custom-made decorative Schweiss bifold liftstrap designer doors; one of which is 11' 10" x 11' 11" and another at 11' 1" x 10' 1". Instead of the conventional metal, glass or wood exterior cladding, these doors have a decorative steel exterior 12 gauge steel cladding that blends in very nicely with the exterior brick of the apartment building.

They wanted the architectural feel and look of a fence and at the same time they wanted to keep the building appeal. The doors, located on each side of the building, provide a pedestrian walk-through atrium between buildings and can be closed in the evening.

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Pike Motorworks Apartments

This unique steel bifold door storefront in Brooklyn adds a touch of class and security. Hugging the southwest corner of Long Island, New York, Brooklyn's earlier identity was mostly hitched to Coney Island Beach and the Brooklyn Dodgers of baseball immortality. Today the city is enjoying a renaissance of rediscovery by artists, retailers, ambitious contractors, and creative landscapers; including the Andre Kikoski Architect firm which just wrapped up the complete renovation of two empty abandoned warehouse buildings on 22-28 Wyckoff Ave.

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NY Security Storefront

A top of the line Schweiss Hydraulic Designer Door graces this Under Armour storefront.

Schweiss Designer Doors don't get much better than this. Under Armour Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland ordered this very attractive and unique metal perforated hydraulic one-piece canopy door as a showpiece for their store and office building in Baltimore, Maryland. The 28' 10" wide x 12' 140 mph wind rated door features two distinctly lighted Under Armour billboard-style logos which can be seen for miles around.

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Under Armour Door

Schweiss Doors in Fairfax, Minnesota was called upon by the architectural firm of Muller+Muller, Ltd. of Chicago which excels in architecture, planning and interior designs to provide four Designer Bifold Doors on the stage building and at a concession stand below the guest services building.

The designer style Schweiss Bifold Doors have an exterior cladding of cedar slats 3 1/2" x 3/4," with spaces between them. Extra steel was added at the Schweiss factory for extra support. Pressure treated wood was also added to screw the cedar slats to.

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Riveredge Park

Getting 150 doors installed at one location speaks rather strongly about the quality and reliability of your door provider. But that's the current scorecard of Schweiss Bifold Liftstrap doors at Fort Carson, Colorado in Colorado Springs where the U.S. Army special heated maintenance shops called TEMFs (Tactical Equipment Maintenance Facilities) required strong doors for structures big enough for Army tanks and other special military tactical vehicles.

That meant special translucent paneling with enough strength to withstand the ‘blast load’ criteria that is part of the terrorist attack prevention now standard procedure at any military installation. This means heavier doors with bigger load requirements than would be used in a typical commercial environment. Special windows were also installed in several of these bifolds.

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Fort Carson

Bikes are taking over America. Major cities like New York, Chicago and San Francisco are launching public bike sharing systems for the first time, joining Boston, D.C. and Denver. In these metro areas most auto trips are two miles or less. Giving up that short trip in the auto saves cash on gas, parking, tickets and time in traffic. It also limits car trips in and out of the city. Schweiss Doors provided the city with three custom made 19' 5.63" x 7' 1.56" straplift bifold glass doors for its bike transit project in Santa Monica, CA.

The bifold doors are put to good use each day. For safety purposes, the doors were ordered with photo eye sensors, door base safety edges and have an emergency backup hand crank should there be a power outage. Galvanized side rails were put on the doors due to their close proximity to the ocean as a rust preventative. City officials said the bike center provided $106,826 in revenue to City Hall just months after its opening.

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California Bike Transit

Nine Fine Irishmen is a Las Vegas southside strip-located pub of epic proportions. It has a great location just across from the MGM Grand Casino. The pub's interior features a grand Victorian-style bar. It was entirely handcrafted in Ireland by a variety of local tradesmen using authentic Irish materials.

A unique kiosk with a spectacular 360 degree view of the Las Vegas Strip opens up outside to the public with four Schweiss hydraulic designer doors. The year-round outdoor patio and bar kiosk has ample seating for about 100 people. It features two custom made Schweiss hydraulic designer doors 15' x 4' 4" which open at the sides and two 8' x 4' 4" hydraulic doors opening at each end. A unique feature for this is the use of only one hydraulic pump for all four doors, with four separate key stations to open and close the doors. When the doors are open they provide shade to the area around the bar. When closed, they provide a tight seal and security to the contents inside.

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Nine Fine Irishmen

It's an unglamorous feature, but the 20' wide by 9' high bifold door at AT&T Stadium in San Francisco, CA, provides a vital function by securing a critical storage area within the ballpark's fan recreation area. The 20' wide by 9' high door was manufactured by Schweiss Doors of Fairfax, MN, and installed by Soule Building Systems of Cotati, CA. AT&T Stadium is the home of the San Francisco Giants.

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Bifold Doors

North Star Imaging, Inc., a Rogers, Minnesota manufacturer of industrial x-ray systems came to Schweiss for a 40' wide lead-lined door that would be put on a large booth used for x-ray inspections of long metal component products to find minute imperfections in the metal or welds.

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North Star Imaging

Large hospital uses a bifold on their parking ramp to provide security and reliability as well as the unique style of a custom made Liftstrap Bifold Door from Schweiss.

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Bifold Doors