Powers Products worked alongside SEH Architects and M.A. Mortenson Company builders on a project at the Regional Transportation District.
The Regional Transportation District (RTD) provides bus, rail, and light rail transit service to Denver, Boulder, and surrounding cities in Colorado. According to RTD’s website the Civic Center Station in Downtown Denver is one of their busiest regional bus transit centers. With eighteen routes, it serves an average of 15,000 passengers a day. In 2017 it received a much-needed renovation.
RTD wanted to be able secure the Civic Center Station transportation terminal at night while still allowing unrestricted egress from the station. The design team used two McKEON specialty grilles – Safescape® Models G1000 and G1500. Both systems are vertical coiling and offer code-complying egress.
The Model G1500, in the fully closed position provides redundancy to building occupants attempting to exit. First, this grille incorporates a conventional swing door within its framework. Secondly, when the building goes into alarm the entire assembly retracts leaving the required path of egress open to the flow of pedestrian traffic. For convenience, the complying egress swing door can be used in lieu of raising the overhead coiling assembly.
The Model G1000 does not have a swinging egress door. However, when the building goes into alarm the grille will open so building occupants can quickly and easily exit the building.
Displaying a unique, custom grille pattern, these units provide a safe, efficient, and economical way to solve the dual challenges of egress during an emergency and security during normal building use.