Fire Doors Inspection Report: Sardar Kabuli Girls' High School Fire Door Replacement QA Services

The project includes the provision and installation of 23 NFPA-80 fire-rated doors with all minor and major elements having a fire rating of 90-180 minutes. Tetra Tech, under the Afghanistan Engineering Support Program, performs Quality Assurance (QA) Monitoring and Evaluation Services for the Sardar Kabuli Girls' High School Project. Prior to the site visit, the project lead and the concerned QA engineer from Tetra Tech reviewed all product submittals and the shop drawings related to the doors, frame, and hardware for the SKGHS fire doors, and developed a checklist for all aforementioned products with the specifications outlined under the submitted documents. On May 23, 2016, Tetra Tech was informed that the doors had been delivered on site. Two engineers performed a site visit to confirm that the doors met or exceeded the approved contract specifications. The site visit revealed that there are 24 doors, including one spare, which were transported to the site on May 22, 2016. Only one sample of the door unit with the related ancillary components was unpacked for examination. Each component of a door unit was separately unpacked and checked to ensure they meet the specifications outlined under the certificate of compliance provided in the manufacturer's product submittals and the Underwriter Laboratory (UL) specifications. All checked components of the door met the requirements, including door panels, door frame, door closures, handle sets, panic hardware, heavy weight hinges, and vision light frame. The new doors, as well as the frame height, width, and thickness, vision lite, and its frame size, were measured for conformance to the preapproved drawing specification submitted to Tetra Tech. All checked components met the requirements. The hardware for the new door units contained various elements, including hollow metal door, metal frame, perimeter gasket, meeting stile astragal, door closures, panic hardware set, handle set, vertical integrated door stop with sleeve in floor, heavy weight hinges, active door astragal, vision light, and vision light frame. The new fire doors do not include locks/keys since it is not in their manufacturing requirement. The new door units are designed with three required hinges per door panel, as opposed to four hinges for the existing doors. Therefore, when the new doors are installed, there will be one empty hinge location. All door panels are going to be hung and swing in the correct directions per the drawings. Tetra Tech engineers could not observe the Anemostat vision light/glasses of the doors because they were packed in order to avoid breakage. The overall condition of the new doors is good and meets the design requirements since the one checked sample was meeting the preapproved submitted specifications.