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Hardware training

Hardware 101 and Hardware 201, on site, for distributor, rep, and contractor teams.

The training program

Two programs for distributor, rep, and contractor teams, taught on site by credentialed consultants whose working life is writing and reviewing openings specifications for architects and owners. They arrive knowing what an architect writes, what an inspector looks for, and where the two do not line up.

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

Foundation

Hardware 101

Two days for a mixed room of twelve to thirty: counter and inside sales, estimating, project management, service, and outside sales.

Format
Two days, on site.
Day one
The opening as a system: anatomy, the code stack, fire and egress assemblies, accessibility, and reading a hardware schedule.
Day two
Application: A156 grading, defensible substitution, electrified openings, a failure clinic built on real failed openings, and the DHI credential pathway.
Optional half day
Transparency documents: EPDs, HPDs, and Declare labels.
Status
Booking now. Proposals follow a scoping call.

By the end of the first day the room can look at any opening and say which documents govern it, and who decides when those documents disagree.

Hands-on cylindrical hardware clinic, Las Vegas
Hands-on clinic, Las Vegas
Continuing

Hardware 201

Four hybrid units that pick up where the foundation ends, with two SPC trainers in the room on every delivery day and subject specialists teaching live by video.

Format
Four hybrid units.
Unit one
Electrified and life safety systems.
Unit two
Specification and submittal practice.
Unit three
Existing buildings and occupancy.
Unit four
Building internal capability, so the program can end.
Between units
Remote clinics hold momentum, with no travel cost.
Status
Booking now. Module numbering continues from Hardware 101, so a person who finished the foundation begins here at module eleven.

When your team can run its own failure review and teach its own new hires, the instruction has moved inside the building.

How it is delivered

Learn

the opening as a system, on site, in your own building.

Apply

the standards to real failed openings in a failure clinic.

Join

lectures and guest faculty by video from any office.

Build

internal capability, so the program can end.

Hands-on work stays in person. Lectures and guest faculty can join any office by video, so multi-office distributors train every branch on the same day.

The specialist teaches the standard. The trainer standing in your building says what it means at your counter on Monday morning.

Hands-on hardware clinic, Las Vegas

Start with a scoping call

Thirty minutes with your leadership team: who is in the room, what they need to get better at, and which units in which order. A written program proposal follows the call.

Request the call

Scoped to your team · proposals follow the call

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