AI for door and hardware distributors, tested on schedules you already detailed.

The schedule decides when frames can start. Duke University's construction standard for section 08 71 00 wants the final schedule organized by hardware set, with the type, style, function, size and finish of every item, each set tied to the floor plans and to the door and frame schedule, plus mounting locations, door and frame sizes and key information. It also says acceptance of that schedule has to come before fabrication of other work, hollow metal frames among them.

Owners write your credential into the spec. Missouri State University's June 2023 design standard has its hardware section written by a certified Architectural Hardware Consultant, and asks for a supplier with an AHC on call through the work to advise the contractor, the architect and the owner. Duke tells contractors to choose only a supplier employing qualified architectural hardware consultants to manage the whole hardware contract. So the first pass at each schedule lands on whoever holds that credential, and every job you've closed shows what they decided.

One opening is written in several places. The University of Houston's master specification index puts hollow metal doors and frames at 08 11 13, flush wood doors at 08 14 16 and door hardware at 08 71 00, while the door schedule and floor plans sit in the drawings. A detailer reads all of them for each door number, which is why the test scores the conflicts a draft raises as closely as the lines it fills.

The standards move under older specs. BHMA's ANSI A156 series gives each product family its own number: A156.2 for bored locks, A156.3 for exit devices, A156.5 for cylinders, A156.13 for mortise locks. BHMA says these are opened and reviewed up to every five years, and its update page shows butts and hinges approved in June 2021 and exit devices in November 2020. A project manual carried forward from an earlier building can quote editions that have since been replaced, and only a person should decide what follows from that.

Inspections leave a second stack with the same shape. NFPA 80 calls for fire door assemblies to be inspected and tested at least once a year, with a signed written record kept for the authority having jurisdiction. Kansas's State Fire Marshal publishes Form 817, revised March 31, 2026, and tells the inspector to use a separate form for each door. For health care occupancies, CMS memo S&C 17-38-LSC set full compliance by January 1, 2018. If your team runs these walk-throughs, each building has left its notes, a report and the repair quote that came after.

Where the test stops. Neither job reaches your detailing, estimating or ERP system or changes a live schedule or report. It never certifies a fire door or decides whether an opening complies, and the rules named here are general information, not legal or code advice. A qualified person on your staff checks every schedule and signs every inspection.