Doors for new buildings: how to plan supply for a whole block

Planning the doors for a whole residential block is a logistics and compliance exercise before it is a purchase. It starts with a door schedule — every opening listed and each one matched to the class its fire-safety design requires — and it runs most smoothly when a single supplier handles fire, entrance and technical doors, with railings alongside. Done that way, standard and custom sizes stay consistent, delivery is organised by floor, and the certificates are ready for inspection.

This guide is for developers, procurement teams and project managers who have to turn a set of drawings into doors that arrive on time and pass inspection.

Start with the door schedule

The door schedule is the backbone of the whole supply. It is the single list that turns a building's drawings into an order a supplier can quote, build and deliver against. Without it, every opening is a separate conversation; with it, the block is one coordinated job.

Each line on the schedule should tie an opening to everything needed to build and certify the right door for it. The required fire-resistance class per opening is not a procurement choice — it comes from the building's fire-safety design, prepared under the technical regulation approved by Government of Georgia Decree No. 41. Procurement's job is to record that class accurately and buy to meet it.

What to put in a door schedule — the checklist

A schedule a supplier can quote in one pass carries, for every opening:

• **Opening reference** — a unique ID tied to the floor plan
• **Floor / block / core** — where the door physically goes
• **Door type** — fire, entrance, technical/shaft, or other
• **Required class** — EI 30 / 45 / 60 / 90 / 120 where the design calls for it
• **Size** — structural opening dimensions; note standard vs custom
• **Leaf configuration** — single or double leaf; opening direction
• **Hardware** — closer, anti-panic exit device, smart lock, as required
• **Finish / RAL** — colour or finish per door
• **Quantity** — how many identical doors of this specification
• **Certificate requirement** — flag which doors need the certificate handed over for inspection
• **Delivery phase** — the floor or stage the door belongs to in the programme

If the schedule does not yet name a class for a protected opening, that is a question for the fire-safety designer before the order — not something a supplier should fill in by guessing.

Match each opening to the right door family

A block is not one kind of door. A single schedule typically spans several families, and matching each opening to the correct one is the point of the exercise.

Unigon entrance doors are EI 30 and EI 60; our fire doors are EI 45, EI 60, EI 90 and EI 120 — all with certified fire resistance, in standard and custom sizes. The class for each opening still comes from the fire-safety design; the schedule simply records which door meets it.

Why one supplier for the whole block

Splitting doors across several vendors multiplies the coordination and the risk. One supplier for fire, entrance and technical doors — and railings — gives a development several concrete advantages:

• Consistent specification and finish across the whole block, so apartment doors and corridor doors read as one building.
• Coordinated sizing. Standard and custom openings are quoted and built together, with each custom door kept within the certified scope for its class.
• One delivery programme. Doors are sequenced by floor and phase instead of arriving from several sources on different days.
• One certificate pack. The documents that prove every fire-rated door's class are handed over together, tied to the products supplied.

That coherence is worth more on a live site than a marginally cheaper line from a second vendor who does not know the rest of the building.

Plan delivery by floor

A tower is not ready for all its doors at once. Delivery should follow the construction programme — floor by floor, phase by phase — so doors arrive as each level is prepared, not months early to be stored and damaged, nor late to hold up handover. Because the schedule already tags each door with its floor and phase, sequencing is a matter of agreeing the programme, not re-deriving it.

Certificates for inspection, handed over with the doors

The fire inspection needs evidence, and that evidence is the certificate pack. For a whole block, this should arrive as one coherent set: each fire-rated door's class, tied to the specific product and size supplied, documented and handed over with delivery. We supply only classes our certificates support, and where a specific figure is needed it comes from the data sheet and is confirmed per project. That way the inspection has what it needs in one place, and the developer's handover file is complete.

Send your door schedule

Send us your door schedule — or the drawings and the list of openings — and we will match every opening to its required class, quote standard and custom sizes together, sequence delivery by floor, and hand over the certificate pack for inspection, across Tbilisi, Batumi, Kobuleti and Rustavi. Reach us on WhatsApp or phone at +995 596 81 88 00, or email sales@unigon.ge.