Maximise Your Event's Impact at The SDS Hub in Central London
Versatile Space Designed for Collaboration When it comes to hosting events that inspire ...
NHS Estates Fire Safety Forum 2025
Specialist Door Solutions is thrilled to be hosting the NHS Estates Fire Safety Forum at ...
Specialist Door Solutions Becomes Architects for Health Gold Member
Specialist Door Solutions have been members of Architects for Health (AfH) since 2023 and ...
Ageing Healthcare Estates: Making Strategic Choices for Long-Term Value
NHS waiting lists are at critical levels, and every minute of healthcare facility ...
SDS Accessible Doorsets | Designing Inclusive Healthcare Facilities
The United Nations General Assembly established the International Day of Persons with ...
Addressing the maintenance backlog in NHS hospitals
Across the NHS, a growing backlog of planned maintenance is significantly affecting the ...
SDS Leadership Forum: Our In-Person Event
Imagine a healthcare environment where downtime is dramatically reduced, patient care ...
Specialist Door Solutions launches The SDS Hub: a new collaborative event space.
Specialist Door Solutions (SDS) has unveiled The SDS Hub, a new events, demonstration and ...
Architects for Health Future Leaders: London
Architects for Health is hosting their third and final ‘Future Leaders’ event of the year ...
The Significance of Intentional Design in Healthcare
Expansion and maintenance in healthcare facilities can lead to disruption and fragmented ...
The importance of a collaborative approach to fire door safety in hospitals
This year’s Fire Door Safety Week - the 11th in its history - focused on the theme ‘A ...
What can we learn from the Grenfell inquiry report?
In the last few weeks, we have been digesting the full weight of the recent Grenfell ...
Meet SDS at Healthcare Estates 2024
Specialist Door Solutions (SDS) are excited to announce that we are attending the ...
Transforming NHS Trust Facilities with Durable Doorsets
Decision-makers within NHS Trusts must ensure their facilities not only meet rigorous ...
Lifecycle Savings with Durable Doorsets in Acute Healthcare
SDS on Track to Reduce GHG Emissions by 50% by 2025
SDS on Track to Reduce GHG Emissions by 50% by 2025 Specialist Door Solutions (SDS) has ...
Grenfell Tower Inquiry Report: SDS Response
Yesterday the inquiry into the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower, a devastating incident in ...
How PVC Post-formed Doorsets Improve Patient Safety and Hygiene in Healthcare Facilities
Balancing budget constraints with compliance needs and long-term investment value is a ...
Longevity in the Healthcare Environment with PVC Post Formed Doorsets
In healthcare settings the importance of compliance, durability, and hygiene cannot be ...
Specialist Door Solutions is Now an Approved Constellia Supplier
Constellia offers an innovative procurement service designed to streamline the tender ...
New Hospitals Programme team visits SDS
In our second NHS England visit in the last few months, we welcomed Rick Lennard, Emma ...
How All-Glass Sliding Doors Can Improve Patient Recovery and Healing
Optimal hospital environments can enhance postoperative recovery and shorten a patient’s ...
How Sliding Doors Facilitate Staff Well-Being in Healthcare Spaces
Hospital design practices are well-known for considering the impact a facility can have ...
SDS launches Clariglide sliding door
Introducing Clariglide: The Sliding Door Solution for Hospitals and Healthcare
Critical Role of Infection Control in Healthcare Doorset Specification
Securing Health and Wellness: SDS talks with Alyson Prince on the Critical Role of ...
SDS Introduces Door Protection Boards
SDS Introduces Innovative Door Protection Boards as Standard on all Doorsets. A ...
The Impact of Fire Safety Collaboration on Healthcare Architecture
The Anatomy of a Fire-Safe Hospital Ward: Revolutionising Healthcare Architecture and ...
SDS Installer Training Programme for Fire Door Installers
Register Your Interest For Our One-Day Training Programme and Certification for BM Trada ...
SDS talks to Alan Oliver at Golden Thread Fire Delay
Securing Healthcare: Navigating Fire Safety Challenges and Solutions
The Crucial Role of Primary Testing in Ensuring Fire Safety in Healthcare Environments
SDS Achieves FD60 Pass for Healthcare Fire Doors
Ensuring Fire Safety with Factory Prepared Morticing
Ensuring Fire Safety
The Role of PVC Doorsets in Infection Control in Healthcare Environments
Infection Control
Lord Markham's Visit to SDS
Lord Markham's Visit
Fire Door Safety Week - Protecting Lives and Healthcare Environments
Fire Door Safety Week
Preventing Infections in Healthcare Environments: The Importance of Hygienic Ironmongery
Preventing infection in demanding healthcare environments
Enhancing Hospital Safety with Complete Doorsets
Introduction
SDS announces launch of Refinedoor™
We are delighted to announce the launch of our Refinedoor™ doorset range.
Fire doors – making the right decision
SDS in conversation with Neil Orpwood, HLM Architects
Advocating for standardisation in healthcare building design
In a recent announcement from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the ...
SDS in conversation with Mel Jacobsen Cox, HLM Architects
Standardisation is key for the future of healthcare construction
Never Compromise on Quality
Caring for the bottom line
SDS launches Shieldoor® lead-lined, x-ray doors for healthcare
Shielding patients and healthcare professionals from x-ray radiation
SDS 300 fire doors for Cancer Centre
We are delighted to have been selected to supply over 300 fire door sets to the RUH Bath ...
The Importance of NBS in Healthcare Construction: Enhancing Compliance and Efficiency
In the healthcare industry, where precision, compliance, and adherence to standards are ...
SDS and our role in Future Healthspaces
The future of the healthcare industry will undoubtedly involve healthcare professionals, ...
What are Intumescent Strips?
Out of all the measures in place to protect a building from fire, fire doors are among ...
But surely, a door is just a door, right?...
The answer is yes and no. We get this comment all the time, and the most important things ...
What is Fire Testing?
Following on from the tragic events of the Grenfell Fire in 2017; the Grenfell Tower ...
SDS at Healthcare Estates 2022
Specialist Door Solutions are delighted that for the second year running, we have ...
What are Vision Panels?
Vision Panels are the small window in a door, allowing people to clearly see through ...
How PVC hospital Doors are Helping Futureproof NHS Estates
With the constant need to remain fire and infection control compliant, we’re helping ...
An Introduction to Future Healthspaces
Who are Future Healthspaces? Future Healthspaces is a collaborative program between ...
Specialist Door Solutions FD60 Fire Test
Having successfully passed a smoke test last week, this doorset has now passed an FD60 ...
Specialist Door Solutions at Healthcare Estates 2021
Specialist Door Solutions are delighted to report that our first ever trade show was an ...
Response to Independent Review of Building Regulations & Fire Safety
Introduction
The Plastic Conundrum
There is a growing movement to minimise and eliminate plastics due to the damage being ...
Taking Care of The Team
We are all to aware of how the lifestyle landscape has altered this year but ever the ...
It's Getting Hot In Here
Our Compliance Manager Alex Motley talks Fire Doors It is a well known fact that after ...
We Are On The Move
To further our commitment to our customers as leaders in the specialist door market we ...
Building smarter for a more sustainable future
LAST MONTH CAME THE WELCOME NEWS OF £3.7BN AGREED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO FUND A PROGRAM OF ...
Putting the NHS rainbow to work. How colour coding could stop cross contamination in healthcare environments.
The use of colour-coded products for cleaning and processing a healthcare facility has ...
The correlation between hospital cleanliness and patient experience.
Along with patient care, aftercare and a reduced risk of infection, a visually beautiful ...