When the goals are better buildings, safer building users and happier customers, the answer lies in a combination of digitalisation and personalised service.

A unified digital thread eliminates any confusion which can follow when stakeholders juggle multiple versions of documents. Personalised specification support ensures stakeholders select the right door solutions, project costs accurately, and minimize costly errors along the way. From design to handover, everyone works smarter.

Software tools and specification support

From doors and door closers to wireless digital locking devices and complete digital access ecosystems, Assa Abloy has solutions for almost any building or opening. This vast range and breadth of project experience creates uniquely broad-based knowledge, including about the latest innovations in low-impact mobile access and other energy-saving digital solutions.

Assa Abloy specification experts can ensure fire safety and barrier-free accessibility are factored into early versions of a design, for example. This helps building owners and investors to meet compliance and safety requirements directly from project initiation, saving time and stress.

Additionally, Assa Abloy software tools such as Openings Studio help security security specialists and distributors specify accurately and manage stock efficiently. When a digital thread is maintained through building management, fire and safety inspectors complete their tasks time- and cost-efficiently.

Openings Studio brings projects together in one intuitive environment by creating a transparent digital platform where everyone contributes. For this reason, it is already deployed all over the world as a trusted design, specification, compliance and ordering tool – for building projects of every size and type.

Deployed alongside personalized support from locally based Assa Abloy specification teams, it offers material benefits to every stakeholder, including architects, building developers and owner, building contractors, security hardware specialists and consultants, distributors, building inspectors.

Increased efficiency

For example, Openings Studio helps to maximize the effectiveness of inspections by safeguarding a reliable, up-to-date source of specification info and making it available on demand – even on an inspector’s mobile phone.

Doorview, who conduct fire inspections in the London area, use Openings Studio to speed up their work. “The Openings Studio app allows us to instantly share fire door inspection reports with our clients,” explains Doorview’s Jody Purcell. The mobile app equips inspectors with powerful, speedy and transparent reporting tools by leveraging the same information from the design phase through to maintenance of the completed structure.

The app also helps Doorview implement a remedial action list, which reassures the client that their building is compliant and safe. Maintenance staff can upload a photo when any required refits are complete. Working digitally with Openings Studio assures the transparency of this process.

“Because specification and BIM teams are based at locations spanning Assa Abloy’s global network, they bring experience and expertise on local issues, standards and certifications,” adds Marc.

“With digital collaboration in Openings Studio – plus dedicated specification support from a global team of local experts – Assa Abloy can help you transform the way you work. You will deliver faster, better projects, hitting budget targets and meeting the needs of building managers and users, now and far into the future.”