The essential guide to revolving doors

Revolving doors serve multiple purposes, enhancing both the functionality and aesthetics of an entrance. Their design, consisting of several panels rotating around a central shaft, offers a continuous flow of movement. This unique structure offers numerous benefits:

• Energy efficiency: Revolving doors create a constant seal between the interior and exterior, minimising air exchange. This keeps heating and cooling systems efficient, reducing energy costs and improving climate control.
• Enhanced security and access control: Revolving doors naturally regulate entry, allowing only one person or a small group to enter at a time. This adds a layer of security, as it prevents unauthorized access, tailgating, or forced entries. Flow Systems’ access control revolving doors further enhance this security by integrating with various access control and biometric systems.
• Reduced noise and dust Infiltration: By maintaining a constant barrier between inside and outside, revolving doors reduce external noise and prevent dust and debris from entering, creating a cleaner and quieter indoor environment.
• Improved traffic flow: Revolving doors allow for a smooth, continuous flow of people entering and exiting a building without the disruption that conventional swinging doors may cause. This makes them ideal for high-traffic areas where managing pedestrian flow is crucial.
• Sleek aesthetic appeal: Revolving doors add a professional and elegant look to a building’s entrance, projecting an image of modernity and quality.

Flow Systems offers several types of revolving doors, each suited for specific needs.

Automatic revolving doors are equipped with motion sensors, allowing the doors to rotate automatically when a person approaches. These doors are ideal for buildings with high pedestrian traffic, including shopping centres, airports and hospitals. Here’s why automatic revolving doors are an excellent choice:

• Hands-free operation: Automatic revolving doors are fully automated, allowing people to enter without needing to touch the door – an essential feature for buildings focused on hygiene and accessibility.
• Efficient traffic flow management: These doors maintain a constant flow, ideal for managing large numbers of people without congestion or queuing.
• Energy savings: Automatic revolving doors prevent heat or cool air loss, keeping the building’s interior climate stable and reducing energy costs.

Automatic revolving doors are perfect for public buildings that need to balance accessibility, energy efficiency and a high volume of visitors.

Manual revolving doors require users to push the door wings to enter or exit. While simple in design, they are incredibly effective and are often used in lower-traffic buildings, such as small businesses, boutique hotels and office buildings. Benefits of manual revolving doors include:

• Cost efficiency: Manual doors typically have lower initial and maintenance costs than automated systems, making them a budget-friendly choice.
• Energy efficiency: Like their automatic counterparts, manual revolving doors minimise air exchange, contributing to energy savings even more so as there is no requirement for electricity and hence no power costs.
• Control over entry flow: Manual doors offer a controlled, user-paced entry experience, which can enhance security in smaller settings.

Manual revolving doors provide an elegant, functional, and cost-effective solution for buildings that don’t require full automation.

Access control revolving doors offer enhanced security by integrating with a building’s security systems, allowing only authorised personnel to enter. These doors are ideal for secure facilities, including corporate offices, research labs, and government buildings.

Key advantages include:

• Enhanced security: Access control revolving doors often include features such as RFID scanners, biometric readers, or keypad entry, allowing only those with proper authorisation to pass.
• Prevention of unauthorised entry: By restricting access, these doors minimise unauthorised access, tailgating or piggybacking, enhancing overall building security.
• Versatile access options: Flow Systems’ access control revolving doors can be customised to meet specific security protocols, offering options like mobile phone access and integration with surveillance systems.

Access control revolving doors are essential for locations where entry needs to be closely monitored and controlled.

View Flow Systems’ wide range of revolving doors here or contact us for more information.