More than 200 volunteers, donors, guests and guide dog teams were on hand December 10 as Guide Dogs of America (GDA) unveiled its latest expansion in Sylmar, Calif. The new 16,000 sq. ft. building celebrated the dedication of the Macki and Phil Singer Visitor and Education Center. The expansion of GDA's 7.5-acre campus was facilitated by a generous donation from Macki and Phil Singer, who have supported their mission since 1994.
The new visitor and education center will allow the school to enhance its visitors' experience by being able to further educate and give a more in-depth look into its mission to provide professionally trained guide dogs, to graduate more guide dog teams and instruction in their use, free of charge to blind men and women across the U.S. and Canada.
In addition to a new 250-seat auditorium, gift shop, offices and boardroom, the facility will make it possible to conduct day-to-day operations without concern for weather.
“The large glass wall door is opened to give us a bigger space if need be. It's a beautiful way to enhance and expand events in our visitor education center and make it more useful. We are very excited to have this new addition to our campus.”
- Lorri Bernson
Media and Community Liaison
Guide Dogs of America
Schweiss Doors provided the new facility with a 41'10" x 11'2" bifold liftstrap glass designer door. The door is fitted with photo eye sensors and is powered by two top-drive 3 h.p. 460v electric motors. DAI General Contracting of Irvine, Calif. built the structure.
Fred Hanhauser, Chief Operating Officer for DAI, said they subcontracted the door installation to Vortex and that it went well with no hitches.
"We called around to the big rollup door guys we were used to dealing with to see who does big doors like this - all arrows pointed to Schweiss Doors," said Hanhauser. "I like to watch the door in action. It's interesting to watch a door that big open up; it's pretty cool. The quality is good, I enjoyed working with you guys and would gladly do it again."
According to Lorri Bernson, Media and Community Liaison for GDA, the large door is especially good to open up the facility to the outdoor courtyard, which is done when large groups gather to eliminate crowding inside the building.
"The large glass wall door is opened to give us a bigger space if need be. It's a beautiful way to enhance and expand events in our visitor education center and make it more useful," said Bernson. "We are very excited to have this new addition to our campus."
"The visitor and education center is the next step in GDA's journey to bring life-improving services to blind and visually impaired individuals," said IAM International President Bob Martinez. "With each person, community group or grammar school field trip that walks through these doors, news of the good work done here will spread far beyond the seven and a half acres on which the school sits."
The cost to provide one guide dog and match it with its new blind partner is over $48,000. GDA charges nothing to guide dog recipients or their families for its services, which include a guide dog and professional instruction by licensed trainers, room and board for the 21-day instruction period, a specially designed harness, follow-up care, veterinarian care and travel expenses when requested.
"We graduate between 50 and 60 teams (dog and handler) each year. The dogs graduate around the age of two. We start having them socialize when they are four weeks old in the nursery, getting them used to being around people. We take them outside until they go home with their puppy raisers. We expose them to all types of surfaces like grass and in wagons to help them with their balance. The puppies leave the nursery when they are 7 to 8 weeks of age when they go to a volunteer or family, that we call Puppy Raisers. They keep the puppies until they are around 18 months of age. Their job is to take the puppy pretty much everywhere they go so by the time they become a guide dog nothing is really new to them," explained Bernson.
The bifold door can be used, not only to bring equipment and dog teams in and out of the building, but it is opened for large gatherings and public events on the 7.5-acre campus.
Guide Dogs of America has been around since 1948 and since that time they have paired dogs with thousands of visually impaired people across the United States and Canada. All Guide dogs are only for the blind, unlike hearing dogs for the deaf or PTSD dogs for war veterans.
Guide dog breeds are chosen for temperament and trainability and matched to the dog and the person. Today, Golden Retrievers, Labradors, and German Shepherds are most likely to be chosen by service animal facilities, although other breeds such as Standard Poodles, Collies, Border Collies, Australian Shepherds, and Vizslas may also be selected.
“We called around to the big rollup door guys we were used to dealing with to see who does big doors like this - all arrows pointed to Schweiss Doors. I like to watch the door in action. It's interesting to watch a door that big open up; it's pretty cool. The quality is good, I enjoyed working with you guys and would gladly do it again.”
- Fred Hanhauser,
Chief Operating Officer
DAI General Contracting
Irvine, California
Crosses such as Golden Retriever/Labrador are popular due to both breeds' known intelligence, work ethic, and early maturation. Labradoodles (Labrador/Poodles) are bred to help reduce allergens as all breeds shed but levels vary.
The most popular breed used globally today is the Labrador retriever. This breed is easily kept due to its short coat, is generally healthy and has a gentle but willing temperament.
References to service animals date at least as far back as the mid-16th century; The first service animal training schools were established in Germany during World War I to enhance the mobility of returning veterans who were blinded in combat. In many countries, service animals are protected by law and therefore may accompany their handlers most places that are open to the public.
In the United States, the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits any business, government agency, or other organization that provides access to the general public from barring service animals. Religious organizations are not required to provide such access. The Fair Housing Act requires that landlords allow tenants to have service animals in residences that normally have a "No Pets" policy and that no extra fees may be charged for such tenants.
Studies show owning a pet or therapy animal offer positive effects psychologically, socially, and physiologically. Guide dogs give a blind person more confidence, friendship, support and security.
Although the dogs can be trained to navigate various obstacles, lots of them are (red-green) color-blind and are not capable of interpreting street signs. The human does the directing, based on skills acquired through previous mobility training.
Guide Dogs of America is located at 13445 Glenoaks Blvd., Sylmar, Calif. For more information on their services, call 818-833-6429 or visit their website at: www.guidedogsofamerica.org
The glass bifold liftstrap door blends in nicely with the rest of the buildings windows and architecture, so much so that it is hardly noticeable.
Formed in 2003, DAI (Damato Associates Inc.) began in the Self-Storage Industry building new facilities and immediately expanded into "ground-up" office buildings, retail/banks, concrete tilt-ups, self-storage and tenant improvements.
DAI offers creative value engineering, comprehensive pre-construction services and viable solutions in an ever-changing industry. They are a commercial general contracting firm with experience in all facets of construction supported by a staff with well over 60 years of combined and varied construction experience. They have maintained success by treating clients with unparalleled service and creative input for all their construction needs.
With DAI guiding your project through the construction phase, they say: "You Can "Relax, We Got This."
DAI General Contracting is located at 15 Hammond, Ste.307, Irvine, CA Tel: 949-600-5850. For more information visit their website at: http://www.daigc.com
The glass bifold door on the GDA building lets in ample amounts of daylight and also gives people within the building a great view of the surrounding mountain range. Two top drive electric motors easily lift the heavy door.
When open, the bifold door offers great ventilation for the building and the overhead canopy keeps rain out too.
By the time the dogs reach the age of two they are ready to graduate with their handlers. GDA graduates between 50 and 60 dog/handler teams a year and have done thousands over the years for destinations throughout the U.S. and Canada.
After the two months, volunteer puppy raisers bring the dog's home for 18 months to learn socialization skills and to get used to different scenarios that the eventual owners will encounter. Golden Retrievers, Labradors and German Shepherds are the most popular breeds trained.
DAI General Contracting of Irvine, Calif. built the new building near the site of the previous one. The larger facility will enable GDA to graduate more guide dogs.
Macki and Phil Singer gave a generous donation to get the new building erected. Within the building is a 250-seat auditorium, gift shop, offices and boardroom.
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Oregon corporate hangar was built with 'tall' Schweiss hydraulic door in mind
The Lanz Cabinets Bombardier Challenger 300 business jet sits proudly in front of its new corporate hangar in Eugene, OR with 76' a hydraulic door. The interior of the hangar is very well lit and exterior lights beside the top of the schweiss hydraulic door make it easier for the pilot to enter the hangar after dark. |
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Upscale Lake Hood, Alaska hangar features bifold and hydraulic doors
The three-stall Lake Hood, Anchorage, Alaska hangar, owned by Jim St. George, has a 65' and 40' hydraulic doors and a 34' wide bifold door. When you first see the 14,000 sq. ft. hangar you can't help but notice the decorative window design. |
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'Net Zero' Washington Bonneville Power project features 11 Bifold drive-through doors
Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) features 11 Schweiss Bifold liftstrap doors on its maintenance building. Eight of these doors are 27' x 16'. One other door is 23.4' x 16' and the remaining two are 12' x 16' doors. BPA maintenance building had a "Net Zero" criteria, and Schweiss met the requirements. |
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California Emergency Operations Center opts for Schweiss hydraulic designer door
The new Martinez, California County Operation Center has a custom-made 23.1 ft. x 13.9 ft. Schweiss hydraulic glass door that opens up for meetings. It seats 160 inside and an additional 140 people outside. The Schweiss custom-made hydraulic glass designer door is equipped with electric photo eye sensors, a door-base safety edge and a hydraulic back up system in case of a power outage. |
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Modernistic Venice, Calif. home has hydraulic living room designer door
This split-level rental home, owned by Architect Matthew Royce, is equipped with a custom-made Schweiss 13.8' x 10.8' one-piece hydraulic designer door. Royce, who also served as its general building contractor, installed the door with electric photo eye sensors and the door is clad in glass. What's really unique about the home is the hydraulic door opens from the living room to overlook a private outdoor patio and lets fresh air into the home. |
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Initiative to develop premier aircraft care products leads to new hangar with 115 ft. hydraulic Schweiss door
John Mosley, owner of John's 360° Coatings in Mississippi, built this hangar complete with a Schweiss Hydraulic 115 ft. x 23 ft door. The AeroShell Aerobatic Team is a familiar name in airshow lineups, having performed in front of millions of fans all over North America for more than 25 years. They love the "John's 360° Coatings" that John Mosley put on their T-6 WWII vintage aircraft. The T-6 was originally introduced as a basic trainer for the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1938. |
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Michigan hydraulic hangar door is more of a hangar mancave wall
Gary Huffman of southern Michigan is an avid outdoorsman and pilot/instructor. His hangar has a 43.7' x 11.1' custom-made Schweiss hydraulic door. The hydraulic pump is hidden away in a white pine box he made to conceal it. He flies an absolutely gorgeous 1978 Cessna 206 Stationair and a pristine totally rebuilt 1948 four-place Stinson 108 Voyager. He takes off and lands from a 1,800 ft. north/south runway and 1,300 ft. east/west crosswind runway. |
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Designer bifold door is the perfect fit for new Brooklyn Italian restaurant
Brooklyn New York's Ainslie Italian restaurant, has a 30.6' x 13.4' Schweiss Bifold Designer Door that opens to a bar and landscaped yard. The liftstrap door opens backyard for customer comfort and more seating. It has a keyed entry, remote openers, top-drive motors and black liftstraps. Glass walk doors are positioned at each side of the bifold door. |
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Early college Texas high school includes Schweiss bifold doors in new construction
New Caney High School buys glass designer doors for commons area. They range in size from 11.6' wide to 9.3' and all have clear heights of 7.75'. The liftstrap doors, powered by top-drive motors are equipped with electric photo eye sensors, door base safety edges, manual side latches and black liftstraps. |
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Sailplane hangar is something many pilots only dream about
This four-plane hangar in Georgia has a Schweiss 60' x 12.5' bifold liftstrap door. Inside it is decked out with 15' x 32' mancave. The door was hung by Premier Building Systems of Lawrenceville, Georgia. Vihlen said he finished the installation by putting in the motors, liftstraps and autolatches all by himself. Now, Steve's main passion these days is flying sailplanes. He's got an American-made older classic 1964 Schweizer 126-B glider and a German-made Alexander Schleicher ASG-29 modern single-place racing glider that he bought new from the factory in 2006. |
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Beautiful home away from home has bifold door for scenery and security
Ron's 40' x 11' Schweiss bifold liftstrap door works as a security system and protects the glass windows. The automatic latching system seals it weathertight. The building is about 48' x 92' with one third devoted to living space and the rest for a garage and shop area. When his home was built a couple of years ago he decided to put a bifold door on it, in part to cover a large 40' expanse of windows that look out over an adjacent golf course. His home in the woods overlooks his 90 acres. |
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Mercedes-Benz and Schweiss Doors travel the same route of class and quality
When Mercedez-Benz of St. Louis built a new dealership and parking garage on Hampton Avenue, a Schweiss bifold glass designer door was put up. The Schweiss bifold liftstrap door measures 23.11' x 9.4' and equipped with electric photo eye sensors, manual latch system, a door base safety edge, black liftstraps and a top drive motor. PARIC Corporation of St. Louis built the 90,000 sq. ft. building and Zumwalt Corporation of St. Louis installed the bifold door. It is a full-service dealership offering new and used models and a service department. |
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Texas country home is highlighted by attractive Schweiss hydraulic designer doors
At the encouragement of their architect, these Chappel Hill, Texans decided on Schweiss hydraulic country ranch home and garage designer doors. The doors are 29.7' x 9.7' and 20' x 9.4'. The compact hydraulic pumps are each mounted 45' and 65' from the doors. One of the hydraulic pump units went in the basement of her home away from the party room. The pump in the garage was put in the mechanical room behind doors. The exterior of the door is clad in 24 gauge metal panels and the interior of the basement door is handsomely clad with Vertical Douglas Fir. |
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Chuckey, Tenn. barn hangar holds replica of 'Spirit of Columbus'
Driving up you'd never guess that his barn is almost exclusively used to hangar his 180 Cessna 'Spirit of Columbus' and the end wall has a bifold door. Dick and Ginger Merrill of Chuckey Tenn. replicated their 1953 Cessna 180 to match the paint scheme of famous female aviator, Jerrie Mock. |
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Bifold garage door in The Woodlands, Texas has class to match cars within it
A complete remodel of this Woodland, Texas garage included a Schweiss 18' x 7' bifold liftstrap door. The door is equipped with an automatic latch system, remote opener and Simonds can use his backup generator to open or close the door in case of a power outage. That backup generator nearly went to work. The door was installed in the nick of time before Category 4 Hurricane Harvey started on its $200 billion wave of destruction when the eye of the hurricane passed over Rockport and Houston in late August. |
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Blue Bottle Coffee Company opens doors to convivial and growing customer base
Blue Bottle Coffee Company in San Francisco, Calif. turned a dead-end alleyway into a friendly gathering place for people to enjoy their coffee. They have two Schweiss 11' wide bifold doors that they can open to serve customers each day. |
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Custom home hydraulic garage door aids in resale of log home
This door in Oregon is a cedar clad Schweiss designer door with a large man door entrance on a log vacation home two-car attached garage. The new custom-made residential hydraulic garage door is 14' 10" wide with a 6' 3" clear opening and was bought for maximal headroom. The Schweiss Doors is a extra selling point for the owner that put the home up for resale. |
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Connecticut H.S. has multi-use bifold stage and amphitheater door
The new $107 million Warren Harding High School in Bridgeport, Connecticut has a multi-purpose Schweiss bifold liftstrap door measuring 34.8' x 20'. The door doubles as an amphitheater and stage for indoor and outdoor performances. |
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Microburst damage leads Chandler Aviation to replace door with a Schweiss bifold liftstrap door
Extensive storm damage to the Chandler Aviation building in Chandler, Ariz. forced the owner to have an old cable door replaced by Schweiss Bifold Doors. His building needed a revamp from roof to floor including 48' x 14' 10" liftstrap door. The door is equipped with a manual latch system. Four translucent polycarbonate panels at the top half of the door allow natural daylight to brighten up the inside of the building. |
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Prime Silicon Beach real estate site is using Schweiss bifold door at Pen Factory
On this Pen Factory prime real estate at Santa Monica's Silicon Beach sits a 8' 9" x 19' 5" Schweiss bifold liftstrap door with glass cladding. It is equipped with an automatic latch system, electric photo eye sensors, a door base safety edge and back-up system that can be used in case of a power outage. Installation of the door was by Bill Schmidt of ABS Builders, Inc. of Maxwell, CA., the same firm that recently installed the five large 29'x41' Schweiss bifold doors on the new Sacramento Kings Stadium. |
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Skol Vikings!
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Tall 62 x 60-footer goes on Portland Yacht Services building
This big 62-foot wide x 60-foot tall bifold liftstrap door at Portland Yacht Services, Maine, was the second tallest door ever manufactured by Schweiss. The tallest door was 69-foot tall and 90-feet wide, made for a SpaceX rocket hangar at Cape Canaveral. Ten windows on the door bring in natural light. |
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Oklahoma City garage exudes class from floor to ceiling and door
Leo Kingston buys a Schweiss hydraulic door with a clear opening of 15.3' x 7.1' and its equipped with electric photo eye sensors and a remote opener. In order to give extra stability, to compensate for the extra weight of the glass-clad door, Kingston ordered it with a freestanding header that attaches to I-beams at the side and header of the door. |
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West Coast Self-Storage bifold doors enable developer to meet downtown criteria requirements and save money
Two Schweiss bifold doors, a 35 ft. x 19' and a 27 ft. x 19 ft. cleared up a city permit quandary and are being used to access loading bays and elevator lobby. Two hydraulic freight elevators take the work out of bringing storage holdings to the top two floors. Customers are only permitted to access the floor their unit is on through the use of a keypad that is interfaced to the elevator. |
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Iowa high school aviation academy has a Schweiss hydraulic door on its new hangar
Des Moines Aviation Academy builds new hangar. Their new 100' x 96' hangar has a 58.2' x 19.5' Schweiss hydraulic door equipped with electric photo eyes. The One-Piece Door was also ordered with manual windpins, warning lights and horns. The facility consists of a main hangar, mechanical shop, tool/equipment rooms, classrooms and office space. Building contractor on the school was DDVI of Indianola, Iowa. The door was installed by Skold Door Company of Des Moines. |
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Arizona corporate jet hangar has 86' Schweiss bifold liftstrap door
The new 7,360 sq. ft. Triple C Airpark Properties hangar in Scottsdale, Ariz. has a 86' x 26' Schweiss bifold liftstrap door. Schweiss Doors was called upon to provide a bifold liftstrap door with an automatic latch system for it. The massive door has 24 windows located on both halves and a walk door. An exterior truss gives additional strength to the door. The hangar is part of a 12,600 sq. ft. building that has 2,620 sq. ft. of offices, shop and storage space. |
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Thirteen Schweiss hi-tech container doors
The custom-made doors are 13’3” x 7’2” with manual latches and have a 145 mph windload. They have white liftstraps and the motors were painted white as well. The outside of the bifold door was clad in ACM panel. ACM provides a flat surface comparable to much thicker aluminum, at a more reasonable price. When you desire larger panel modules or panels with greater impact resistance, aluminum composite material is the way to go. |
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Ornate cafe-kiosk is part of San Francisco revitalization project
San Francisco's Bi-Rite kiosk offers the first time food has been available on the Civic Center Plaza. It has five beautiful Schweiss bifold designer liftstrap doors. These five doors open up on all sides and when they are closed they blend into the building design to where you can't really see that there are doors there at all. The largest door is 49.4' x 12' and the four other liftstrap doors vary in size from 16.8' to 12.11' in width. |
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Rooftop skylight bifold doors enhance natural light for California photo studio
Eight Schweiss liftstrap skylight designer doors were placed on a photography production studio building in Los Angeles, Calif. Six of these are on the rooftop. The idea came at the recommendation of the Culver City, Calif. architectural firm of Eric Owen Moss Architects (EOMA). These custom-made skylight doors, two of which are 24' x 15.2' and four that span 23.5' x 14.2,' were in addition to two other 23.6' x 15' bifold liftstrap doors placed on the side of the building. Beneath the skylight doors are 1" thick clear glass panels to keep the elements outside the building. The skylight doors have weatherproof electrical components, and the side doors are equipped with photo-eye sensors. |
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Superba Food + Bread opens its bifold door to a tantalizing menu
People at Superba Food + Bread of El Segundo, California insist on living well. They are a community born of the belief that the good things in life ought to be shared and that great food should be accessible to all who seek it. With good intentions, Superba decided on a custom-made 14' 3.5" x 9' 8.5" glass-clad bifold liftstrap door with black straps, electric photo eye sensors and manual latches. |
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Odd Job Johnny has a 'Now You See It - Now You Don't' North Carolina hydraulic garage door
Dennis Scearce of Mooresville, North Carolina, applied this Herb Korthuis principle to his design of his 25.4' x 9' hydraulic door on his 30' x 30' two story garage. When it's open, it looks every bit like a garage door, but when it's closed it looks just like an extension of his home. With two large double windows, it blends in very nicely and matches the rest of his home exterior. The door has remote opener, photo eye sensors and an interior truss. |
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Life Flight Network gets 70 ft. bifold door for new emergency response hangar
The Life Flight "Koala" helicopter stands ready next to the new hangar that has a Schweiss 70'x17' bifold liftstrap door at Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport. Using state of the art aircraft and highly skilled medical and aviation professionals, Life Flight Network (LFN) provides life saving transport to seriously ill or injured patients from the scene of an emergency or from one hospital to another. |
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Ornate bifold grill design adorns Seattle's Pike Motorworks luxurious Apartment building
Adding to the historic look of the 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 exterior 12 gauge steel cladding that blends in very nicely with the exterior brick of the Pike Motorworks apartment building. |
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Newly opened Boston Art Center uses two unique concept Schweiss doors
The new Watershed art gallery has two unique Schweiss bifold liftstrap designer doors, 19.9' and 19.11' wide by 26.9' and 26.11' feet tall. It will showcase contemporary art and was built from the ruins of an abandoned copper pipe and sheet metal facility. |
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Bobby Hotel in Downtown Nashville features a 1956 rooftop bus with hydraulic doors
The newly renovated Bobby Hotel in downtown Nashville, Tenn. has a unique landmark, a 1956 Greyhound Scenicruiser bus hoisted 10 stories up on its roof. One side of the bus opens up with a 18’6” x 8’ Schweiss Hydraulic Door and another 8’ x 9’ rear bus door. The bus serves as part of the rooftop lounge. |
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Two glass-clad hydraulic doors open Sam's Tavern in Seattle to outside dining
Sam's Tavern Pike Street bar has two Schweiss 11'8" x 9' hydraulic glass-clad doors that open to an outside patio area. The bar in Seattle is acclaimed for its renowned USA Today endorsed Bakon Bloody Mary and great food. The restaurant and bar opened early this year as part of a newly constructed 13-story office building. |
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National particle physics lab architect calls on Schweiss for bifold door
As part of the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab a 20.10' x 23.9' bifold liftstrap door was installed in the new 4,500 sq. ft. SBN Near Detector Building. The door features gray liftstraps, electric photo eye sensors, warning lights and horns, a top-drive motor, automatic latching system and an emergency back-up system. The door is clad with glass on the bottom quarter and high performance light transmitting Kalwall® panels covering the top three-quarters of the door, both to identically match the adjacent east wall of the building. |
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Business at PropWorks is zooming - Schweiss 60' x 16' bifold goes on new Edmonton facility
PropWorks of Canada recently underwent a expansion that included a new 14,000 sq. ft. steel hangar with a 60’ x 16’ Schweiss bifold liftstrap door. The hangar is capable of holding large aircraft like this Piper Cheyenne waiting to have some propeller work done. |
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Silicon Valley dream home has large Schweiss hydraulic glass Great Room curtain wall
The Great Room of this ultra-contemporary 9,991 sq. ft. Silicon Valley home has natural light flowing through a 23' tall by 36' wide glass hydraulic door that can be opened fully to create a true indoor/outdoor experience. |
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Shomotion is a company on the move
This unique 40' x 12' mobile container was designed and built by Shomotion LLC. Schweiss Doors custom-built a 28' x 7' 11" hydraulic door for it. Inside the container is a prototype fuselage of Mitsubishi's soon to be produced 70 to 90 passenger regional jet. |
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Big 50' Schweiss bifold opens up South Carolina hangar
Nick and Michelle Cwian are enjoying their new 50' x 16' Schweiss bifold liftstrap door. It is attached to their 60' x 70' hangar at Easley, SC. The liftstrap door, located on the 20' tall hangar sidewalls, is equipped with automatic latches. Their hangar holds their Aeronca Champ and an Aeronca Chief. Nick and Michelle live at the Williamsport Airpark. |
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Oregon BPA helicopter hangar has 40 ft. Schweiss bifold liftstrap door
The newest helicopter hanger utilized by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) at the Redmond, Oregon airport has a Schweiss 40' 4" x 20' bifold straplift hangar door. |
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Scenic mountain art studio-retreat is enhanced by Schweiss glass bifold doors
Forming a glass corner in an open two-story space are two 23' x 15'2" straplift bifold glass-clad doors that have electric photo eye sensors, door base safety edges and black liftstraps and quiet, fast opening top-drive motors. The up/down door control is located 60' away from the doors. |
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Michigan yacht restoration building is fitted with Schweiss bifold and hydraulic doors
The new fully insulated building also features a Schweiss 47.4' x 29.7' bifold automatic latching liftstrap door and a 45.11' x 34.1' hydraulic door, LED lighting, radiant floor heat, floor drains, 24/7 RFID key card access and a private ramp on the shore of Lake Macatawa. The changes make a transition to and from their beautiful storage/service facility effortless. |
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Polycarbonate clad bifold door gives hangar an exclusive look
With the decorative star and patriotic blue front it has all the looks of a hangar home that you might think was owned by Captain America. Jim Weitman, of Weitman Excavation in Sherwood, Oregon, and his wife, Star, live on a private grass airstrip just outside of North Plains, Oregon. The hangar portion of the home measures 40' x 40'. The Schweiss bifold liftstrap door on the hangar has a clear opening width of 38' and 9' 8.75" in height. It is also equipped with automatic latches, electric photo eye sensors and a remote opener. |
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'Guide Dogs of America' found way to integrate mission with bifold door
The 16,000 sq. ft. building has a Schweiss glass designer door measuring nearly 42' wide x 11' tall. The glass bifold liftstrap door blends in nicely with the rest of the buildings windows and architecture, so much so that it is hardly noticeable. The glass bifold door on the GDA building lets in ample amounts of daylight and also gives people within the building a great view of the surrounding mountain range. Two top drive electric motors easily lift the heavy door. |
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Schweiss bifold liftstrap door goes on beautiful Texas hangar home
"The liftstraps and automatic latch system are slick. I feel a lot safer with straps than a cable that can snap on me. I have one remote control in the plane and another in the golf cart. I'm opening and closing the door without bending over and pulling a pin," explained Jesse. "I like the aesthetics . . .not all doors are created equal; it's a good balance between beauty and functionality, I think it's a industrial-strength door." |
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Five Schweiss bifold designer doors add to Yankee Stadium off-season enhancements
The largest of the custom-made bifold doors is 27'5” x 11'4,” followed by two 23'4”x9'2” doors and two 21'10” x 9'2” doors. All the doors are fitted with electric photo eye sensors, black liftstraps, manual latches and alike-keyed opening and closing switches. Four of the doors are clad in a high tech brushed aluminum. They finished the facade and the door to basically match itself so when the doors are down they blend in with the facade and don't reveal what's inside. |
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Texas Music Factory looks to Schweiss for seven bifold doors
The Toyota Music Factory in Irving, Texas covers nearly 17 acres and seats 8,000 people indoors and outdoors. Seven Schweiss bifold liftstrap doors, which can be seen in the upper left of this architects rendition, were installed on the Pavilion live stage building. The doors open the concert to 4,000 overflow fans on a grass slope. |
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Hurricane Harvey tries to mess with Schweiss doors
Hangars with Schweiss bifold doors at the Rockport, Texas Airport were virtually undamaged by Hurricane Harvey. Many others next to them were demolished beyond repair |
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One of Tampa's oldest restaurants is revived - this time with Schweiss Bifold designer doors!
His new 4,000 sq. ft. restaurant has four glass-clad Schweiss Bifold Liftstrap designer doors. The largest of these doors is 12'5" x 7'6" tall. Two are 9'1" x 7'6" and the smallest is 6'5" x 7'6". The doors all have electric photo eye sensors, manual latches and one remote that can operate all four doors. The doors were fitted with black liftstraps and also painted with a dark green "fractured" paint old school design to give them the look of having been on the building for years. |
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Canadian hangar developer has 11 Schweiss bifold doors
Gjesdal has a total of 11 Schweiss doors on his hangars built over the past five years. Schweiss bifold liftstrap doors, with automatic strap latches and electric photo eye sensors were placed on his two newest 100' x 167' hangars. The doors vary in width from 57'8" to 50' and in clear opening height from 16'8" to 16'. His older hangars are equipped with six Schweiss 50' x 14' cable lift doors. All these doors also have walkdoors and remote openers. He opted to receive his doorframes painted in red. |
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Strap bifold doors are the premier choice for many hangars at the Waterloo airport
The Waterloo Regional Airport hangars in Waterloo, Iowa are leased by the city to private pilots and corporations. Three of the large hangars have jet aircraft in them; multiple planes, floatplanes, jets and helicopters are stored in other hangars throughout the airport. Two of the hangars are used as maintenance shops. |
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Husky Brigade is off to the sky minutes after pilots hit the open button on their Schweiss doors
Kerr said that along with somewhere around 18 Husky's on the Alpine field, not counting neighboring Husky's from the Double L Ranch and other style aircraft hangared at Alpine Airpark, over 45 of the 58 residents there have Schweiss doors on their hangars each with their own personal style and size to match their mountain vacation homes. |
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Hydraulic door added to mancave dream for helicopter and floatplane pilot
Easy access to the 11,160 sq. ft. hangar in his 80 ft x 152 ft. building is through a quiet-operating 50' x 17' 7.5" Schweiss hydraulic door. The hydraulic pump for the door is mounted out of sight above the rafters to make best use of all available space within the hangar. He also has a remote opener to enable him to open and close the door without having to leave the cockpit. Three 3.5' x 2.5' windows in the door give him optimum use of available light into the in-floor heated hangar and the hydraulic one-piece door, when open, provides a nice shaded canopy. |
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Former airline pilot chooses Schweiss hydraulics for door and lifting garage staircase
Gene Buboltz of Cold Spring, Minn. chose Schweiss Doors to install a small hydraulic door and lifting staircase on his lakehome to give him easy access to all levels of his home. As time progressed he turned this basement room into a rec. room and a place to store his flying memorabilia. |
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