Vertical Lift DoorsME- Building Group

SECTION 083616 - VERTICAL LIFT DOORS

PART 1 - GENERAL

1.1SUMMARY

  1. This Section includes vertical lift doors, as follows:
  2. Doors with steel-framed steel leaf panels having counter balance.
  3. Unless otherwise indicated, provide two leafs
  4. Related Sections: The following Sections contain requirements that relate to this Section:
  5. Division 5 Sections "Structural Steel" and "Metal Fabrications" for steel framed door openings.
  6. Division 9 "Painting" for field painting of doors, including touch-up.

1.2PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

Retain below for exterior doors or to establish minimum quality level.

  1. Structural Performance: Provide sectional overhead doors capable of withstanding the effects of gravity loads and the following loads and stresses without evidencing permanent deformation of door components:

Values below are examples only. Minimum values from national association of garage door manufacturers are 15.2 lbf/sq. ft. (728 Pa) inward and 10.9 lbf/sq. ft. (522 Pa) outward. Revise to suit load required.

  1. Wind Load: Uniform pressure (velocity pressure) of 20 lbf/sq. ft., acting inward and outward.

Value below is standard with most manufacturers. Revise to suit products selected. Revise value to 25,000, 50,000, or 100,000 for higher-cycle operation, corrosive environments, and severe or abusive use. Cycles per fixed time can also be used to more stringently define operation performance.

  1. Operation-Cycle Requirements: Design sectional overhead door components and operator to operate for not less than 10,000 cycles.

1.3SUBMITTALS

  1. Product Data: For each type and size of sectional overhead door and accessory. Include details of construction relative to materials, dimensions of individual components, profiles, and finishes. Provide roughing-in diagrams, operating instructions, and maintenance information. Include the following:
  2. Setting drawings, templates, and installation instructions for built-in or embedded anchor devices.

Walls and jambs must be designed to support door and imposed load. Retain subparagraph below unless information has already been determined and does not need to be confirmed.

  1. Summary of forces and loads on walls and jambs.

Delete subparagraph below if no motors.

  1. Motors: Show nameplate data and ratings; characteristics; mounting arrangements; size and location of winding termination lugs, conduit entry, and grounding lug; and coatings.
  1. Shop Drawings: For special components and installations not dimensioned or detailed in manufacturer's data sheets.

Delete paragraph above if not required. Delete subparagraph below if no components include wiring.

  1. Wiring Diagrams: Detail wiring for power, signal, and control systems. Differentiate between manufacturer-installed and field-installed wiring and between components provided by door manufacturer and those provided by others.
  1. Samples for Selection: Manufacturer's color charts showing the full range of colors available for units with factory-applied finishes.

1.4QUALITY ASSURANCE

  1. Installer Qualifications: Engage an experienced installer who is an authorized representative of the sectional overhead door manufacturer for both installation and maintenance of units required for this Project.
  2. Source Limitations: Obtain vertical lift doors through one source from a single manufacturer.

Delete subparagraph below if no operators and controls or if not required. Revise if no controls.

  1. Obtain operators and controls from the vertical lift door manufacturer.

Retain to ensure critical requirements for mounting positions and clearance dimensions for doors, operators, and other accessories. Delete if requirements are not critical.

Delete paragraph and subparagraphs below if no motorized operator.

  1. Listing and Labeling: Provide electrically operated fixtures specified in this Section that are listed and labeled.
  2. The Terms "Listed" and "Labeled": As defined in NFPA70, Article100.

PART 2 - PRODUCTS

2.1MANUFACTURERS

  1. Manufacturers: Unless otherwise directed by the Owner, provide products by one of the following:
  2. Door-Man Manufacturing Company; Series HS 2400.
  3. International Door, Inc.
  4. Standard Equipment Supply Ltd.; Zip Door VL202.

2.2STEEL PANELS

  1. Construct door sections from galvanized structural-quality carbon steel sheets complying with ASTMA653, commercial quality, with a minimum yield strength of 33,000 psi and a minimum G60 zinc coating.
  2. Exterior Steel Sheet Thickness: 0.040 inch minimum.
  3. Exterior Section Face: Flat or stucco-embossed; manufacturer’s standard essentially flat face.
  4. Interior Steel Sheet Thickness: 0.022-inch-thick.
  5. Fabricate door panels from a single sheet to provide sections not more than 24 inches high and nominally 2 inches deep. Roll horizontal meeting edges to a continuous, interlocking, keyed, rabbeted, shiplap, or tongue-in-groove weathertight seal, with a reinforcing flange return.
  6. Provide door sections with continuous thermal-break construction, separating faces of door.
  7. Enclose open section with not less than 0.064-inch galvanized steel channel end stiles welded in place. Provide not less than 0.064-inch galvanized intermediate stiles, cut to door section profile, spaced at not more than 48 inches o.c., and welded in place.
  8. Reinforce bottom section with a continuous channel or angle complying with bottom section profile and allowing installation of astragal.
  9. Reinforce sections with continuous horizontal and diagonal reinforcement as required to stiffen door and for wind loading. Provide galvanized steel bars, struts, trusses, or strip steel, formed to depth and bolted or welded in place.
  10. Provide reinforcement for hardware attachment.
  11. Insulation: Manufacturer's standard rigid polyurethane-foam-type thermal insulation, foamed in place to completely fill inner core of section, pressure bonded to face sheets to prevent delamination under wind load and with maximum flame-spread and smoke-developed indices of 75 and 450 respectively, according to ASTME84. Enclose insulation completely, with no exposed insulation material evident.
  12. Fabricate sections so finished door assembly is rigid and aligned, with tight hairline joints, and free of warp, twist, and deformation.

2.3HARDWARE AND ACCESSORIES

  1. Tracks: Provide heavy-duty industrial type hardware and accessories including steel jamb guides and plates, guards, overhead supports for motor operators, steel or gray iron cable sheaves, lift cables, cable drums, steel or cast iron counterweights, counterweight tower, safety devices, guide rollers and other hardware required for a complete working door installation.
  2. Furnish hardware and accessories with manufacturer's standard corrosion resistant zinc coating or rust-inhibiting prime paint coating.
  3. Provide sheaves, rollers and drums with anti-friction factory lubricated, sealed-for-life bearings.
  4. Lift Cables: Provide cables constructed of galvanized improved plow steel wire ropes; at least 6 x 37 strand (5/16-inch diameter) with factory lubricated fiber core, with a minimum safety factor of 10 times the weight of the door.
  5. Provide counterweight carrying harness with guides operating in an enclosed 7 gage steel plate tower on one side of door, with removable 14 gauge steel access covers extending 8 feet high.
  6. Rollers: Provide rollers with hardened treads and pairs of factory lubricated sealed-for-life ball bearings to guide and support the door leaves against all wind and/or side thrust loads, and to eliminate all sliding metal to metal contact between the door and the guides. Provide high-density plastic guide bars and rollers for plastic leaf doors.
  7. Provide bronze or neoprene tired rollers for doors in hazardous atmospheres to prevent sparks from occurring.
  8. Safety Devices: Provide mechanical safety devices designed to automatically engage and instantly lock door in position and prevent falling in case of a cable break. Actuation of the safety device shall not cause damage to the door leaves or door guides.
  9. Weatherstripping: Provide continuous weather-stripping at perimeter of door opening and along top, bottom and meeting edges of door leaves to seal the opening when door is closed. Use a standard multiple-ply neoprene coated fabric, held in place with continuous steel bars on jambs and head of opening at all locations. Provide compressible rubber astragal on bottom leaf of each vertical lift door, incorporating the electric door bottom safety switch for motor operated doors.
  10. Bolt all operating components in place, to be readily replaceable without removing the door panels.

2.4ELECTRIC DOOR OPERATORS

  1. Door manufacturer's standard heavy-duty industrial type door operator unit including electric motor with all necessary shafting and enclosed gearing, with all gears running in oil; safety friction clutch to cushion starting and reversing loads on the motor; solenoid brake for stopping the motor when current is off; limit switches for automatically stopping the door when fully opened or closed. Include necessary mounting and fastening devices, hardware, tracks, levers, and all other mechanical and electrical elements as required. Speed reduction units shall be separate and attached to cable drums with couplings.

High speed doors are available from door manufacturers. Speeds up to 42 inches per second are available for lightweight plastic leaf doors. Verify requirements with Plant and revise door operating speed accordingly. Door operating speed of 18 inches per second (1.5 fps) is standard with door manufacturers.

  1. Hand-operated disconnect or mechanism for automatically engaging sprocket-chain operator and releasing brake for emergency manual operation. Include interlock device to automatically prevent motor from operating when emergency sprocket is engaged. Provide a lever or other device within easy reach of the floor, to make the hand device operative, release solenoid brake, and disconnect motor circuit. The motor shall be capable of being easily reconnected from the floor.
  2. Configure operators:
  3. To open and close the doors with smooth acceleration and deceleration, easily and quietly, without jarring at a fixed rate of 18 inches per second under all conditions of wind pressure.
  4. Allow motor removal without disturbing limit switch adjustment and without affecting emergency auxiliary operator.
  5. So normal fully opened operating cycle will not be disturbed in the event the doors are stopped at any intermediate position, and so that the doors may be either opened or closed directly from an intermediate position when operated by the push button switches. Door operation (as indicated on elementary diagrams) that do not incorporate "Stop" push buttons shall not be required to stop in intermediate position except when indicated.
  6. Provide expanded metal guards at all V-belts or chains between motors and enclosed gearboxes.
  7. Electric Motors: Provide high-starting torque, reversible, continuous-duty, ClassA insulated, electric motors, complying with NEMAMG1, with overload protection, sized to start, accelerate, and operate door in either direction, from any position, at not less than 1.5fps or more than 2.0fps, without exceeding nameplate ratings or considering service factor.
  8. Type: Polyphase, medium-induction type.
  9. Service Factor: According to NEMAMG1, but not less than 115 percent of nameplate rating.
  10. Provide totally enclosed, nonventilated or fan-cooled motors (TEFC), fitted with plugged drain, and controller with NEMAICS6, Type12, oil-resistant enclosure unless otherwise indicated.
  11. Coordinate wiring requirements and electric characteristics of motors with building electrical system.
  12. Limit Switches: Provide heavy duty, rotary cam type adjustable switches, interlocked with motor controls and set to automatically stop door at fully opened and fully closed positions. Provide in NEMAICS6, Type12 oil-resistant enclosure unless otherwise indicated. Provide contacts for interlocks with the following:
  13. Automatic operation suspension device.
  14. Door controls.
  15. Obstruction detection device.
  1. Door Controls: Provide control equipment complying with NEMAICS1, NEMAICS2, and NEMAICS6, with NFPA70, Class 2, control circuit, maximum 24-V, ac or dc.
  2. Provide one of control panel for each door having an electric operator except at truck docks, and other locations where directed. Also exclude remote control station at truck docks and other locations where directed.
  3. Control Panel: NEMAICS6, Type12, oil-resistant enclosure with flange-mounted hinged door. Include the following:
  4. General: Mount electrical components inside enclosure to allow physical clearances sufficient for mounting, wiring adjustment, testing, and replacement. Arrange and orient each component so identification can be determined without moving component or its wiring. Use separately mounted terminal strips for power circuits and control circuits.
  5. Provide contacts, relays and other components necessary for an operational installation, including but not limited to:

1)Floor loops; may be future installation by others.

2)Remote control station.

3)Obstruction detection device controls.

4)Door heater.

5)Open timer.

6)Loading dock equipment if applicable.

  1. Disconnect: Hand-operated lockable blade-type with three lock-out hasps. Fused.
  2. Incoming Power Supply: 480 volt, 3 phase, 60 Hertz
  3. Starters: Two magnetic full voltage with thermal overloads. Minimum size 1.
  4. Transformer: Step-down type for 24 volt control voltage. Provide additional transformer, if required, for door operator.
  5. Panel Mounting Height: 4 feet above finish floor.
  1. Remote Control Station: 3-button control station with pushbutton controls labeled "Open," "Close," and "Stop."
  2. Momentary contact type for green “Open” and red “Stop” buttons.
  3. Constant contact type for black “Close” button.
  4. Units shall be full-guarded, heavy-duty type, with NEMAICS6, Type12, oil-resistant enclosure. Mount in door of control panel unless otherwise directed.
  1. Obstruction Detection Device: Each motorized door shall have an external automatic safety sensor able to protect full width of door opening. Activation of sensor immediately stops and reverses downward door travel.
  2. Sensor Edge: Locate within astragal or weatherstripping mounted to bottom bar. Contact with sensor shall immediately stop and reverse downward door travel. Connect to control circuit using manufacturer's standard take-up reel or self-coiling cable.
  3. Provide electrically actuated automatic bottom bar of self-monitoring type, a 4-wire configured device.
  4. Products: Safety switch control system meeting requirements are:
  5. Door-Man Manufacturing Co.; DM-FSSEE-000.
  6. International Door, Inc.; IDI-FSSEE-EC300.
  7. Photo Electric Sensors: Provide a set of photo electric safety sensors at each located on each side of the door.

PART 3 - EXECUTION

3.1INSTALLATION

  1. Switches for motor operators, complete with necessary hardware, anchors, inserts, hangers, and equipment supports according to accepted shop drawings, manufacturer’s instructions, and as specified.
  2. Adequately brace door towers and guides to the building construction entire height of guide and tower.
  3. Perform all drilling, cutting, tapping of steel, drilling of masonry, concrete and other materials for attaching hardware and other items required for a complete installation.
  4. Install all steel supports as required for a complete installation.
  5. Install safety switch at door bottom. Install coil cord for connection to electrical junction box adjacent to the door.
  6. After completing installation, lubricate, test and adjust doors to operate easily and quietly, free from warp, twist, or distortion and fitting weathertight for entire perimeter.
  7. After installation, the Owner’s Representative may request the Contractor to test the operation of the door safety devices in the presence of the Owner. The cost to perform the tests and restore the doors to operating condition will be paid by the Owner.

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Revision Date: 01/21/14 Project & Bid Package

File name: 083616 VERTICAL LIFT DOORS