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The Opening by Design

The education platform of the SPC Alliance. Hardware training that answers to the code.

Why it exists

The industry’s openings knowledge is retiring faster than it is being replaced. The firms that carried the institutional memory are consolidating, the owners who hold what remains are at retirement age, and most available training arrives through a manufacturer and stops where the product line stops. The failures live in code. This curriculum follows the code and the standards instead.

A room that suspects it is being sold to listens differently than a room that knows it is not.

The Opening by Design at the Las Vegas sessions

The SPC Alliance

The Opening by Design is the education platform of the SPC Alliance, an alliance of independent door and hardware manufacturers. The program exists because openings fail at the seams: between spec and submittal, between hardware sets and field conditions, between what the drawings say and what gets installed. Our instructors work those seams every day.

Electrified hardware session with lockset displays, Las Vegas
Electrified hardware session, Las Vegas
The Opening by Design session
The Opening by Design

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The instructors

Our instructors come from manufacturing, distribution, sustainability consulting, and technical services. They hold the credentials the industry recognizes and spend the year on the specification side of the table.

Our instructors recommend standards, carry a curriculum, and leave when the teaching ends.

At the demo table, Las Vegas

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