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Hangar Door Resources for Architects

The resources on this page are intended to provide a snapshot of our door system and to help you in the hangar design process. You’ll find key hangar design factors and consideration, helpful articles, sample design drawings, explanatory videos & guides.

AeroDoor is an established horizontal rolling door company, and has been working closely with architects, engineers and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for over four decades.

We employ a team of people who collectively offer over 200 years of experience in the design, manufacturing and installation of these doors across the United States and with this experience we can help you to deliver the right door configuration and features for your client.

Page Contents:

  • Hangar door design factors
  • Helpful hangar design articles specifically for architects
  • Where does AeroDoor fit into your design process?
  • Hangar door configurations and use cases (videos)
  • Specifications and sample design document library
  • Photographic examples of our work

Key Hangar Door Design Factors

As an architect or engineer, here is some things we thing you’d find useful
to know about horizontal rolling hangar doors:

  • General

    We offer a complete door system, manufactured and installed by AeroDoor employees.

  • Design

    There is no limit to the height or width of our steel horizontal rolling doors. They can be designed to fit most new or existing buildings.

  • Configuration

    Learn about the different door configurations available.

  • Door Leaves & Panels

    We suggest keeping the quantity of leaves to a minimum. In most cases this will minimize the cost of the door. AeroDoor can help you make this decision.

  • Space

    When the door is open, door leaves must be parked to one or both sides of the opening. If your building isn’t wide enough then consider outriggers, or a group movement configuration.

  • Structural Design

    The door can be designed to any wind design criteria and deflection criteria.

  • Motors

    Doors are sold manual or motorized. Motorized doors can be manually operated when needed.

  • Aesthetics

    Sheeting, walk doors, windows, vents and doggie ports are typically excluded.

  • Windows & Walk Doors

    Framed openings for walk doors and windows are available but we recommend working with AeroDoor to decide on position and sizes.

  • Live Load Vertical Deflection

    The door can be designed one of two ways depending on which rollers are chosen. Fixed rollers provide a fixed deflection dimension, meanwhile telescoping rollers move up and down to accommodate varying levels of live load deflection.

  • Horizontal Deflection

    Doors are designed to L/120 but other choices are available.

  • Power

    We can build the motor operators to match your building’s power supply, but 480V 3 Phase or 208V 3 Phase is most common.

Helpful Content for Hangar Architects

weather seal
February 28, 2023/by Paul Blake

What is a Hangar Door Weather Seal?

How can the sealability be improved on a hangar door? We can add a floating weather seal across the top of the door. This will provide better weather seal coverage between the top of the door and the building when the roof deflects upwards.

hangar door with personnel door opening
November 16, 2022/by Paul Blake

Personnel Door Frames for Airplane Hangar Doors

drainage rail
November 16, 2022/by Paul Blake

Drainage for Sliding Door Tracks

smaller commercial building door sliding
May 3, 2022/by Paul Blake

Horizontal Rolling Large Building Door Configurations

door deflection top guide rollers
April 5, 2022/by Paul Blake

Hangar Door Deflection and Top Guide Rollers

Where does AeroDoor fit into your design process?

Hangar Door Installation

Installation of the complete hangar door is by AeroDoor employees. This includes bottom rails, top track guides, door leaves, electrical components and any number of extras.

Lifetime Service

AeroDoor will accept and fulfill all future in and out of warranty service calls. We use our own employees for servicing our hangar doors.

Annual Inspections

AeroDoor offers maintenance programs for out of warranty horizontal rolling hangar doors. These are available for any brand, not just AeroDoor.

Learn about possible hangar door configurations

Designing a best fit hangar door requires considerations such as the number of tracks, or number of door leaves and motors that will impact your building design, budget costs, and the success or failure of the door when people begin using it day to day.

Here are video representations of each configuration available. More details and specs can be found in this Horizontal Rolling Hangar Door Configurations article.

Sample Hangar Door Design Documents

The following sample documents are available for viewing or download.

All/Biparting/Floating/Independent/Rails/Specs/Unidirectional/

Hangar Door Specifications

083416 Horizontal Rolling Hangar Door Specification

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Bottom Rail Drawing - ASCE RAIL

Bottom Rail Drawing - ASCE RAIL

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Biparting Configuration - 2 Leaf

Door Drawing PDF

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Biparting Configuration - 4 Leaf

Door Drawing PDF

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Biparting Configuration - 6 Leaf

Door Drawing PDF

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Biparting Configuration - 8 Leaf

Door Drawing PDF

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Biparting Configuration - 10 Leaf

Door Drawing PDF

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Biparting Configuration - 12 Leaf

Door Drawing PDF

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Floating Configuration - 4 Leaf, 1 Group

Door Drawing PDF

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Floating Configuration - 8 Leaf, 2 Groups

Door Drawing PDF

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Independent Configuration - 4 Leaf

Door Drawing PDF

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Unidirectional Configuration - 1 Leaf

Door Drawing PDF

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Unidirectional Configuration - 2 Leaf

Door Drawing PDF

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Unidirectional Configuration - 3 Leaf

Door Drawing PDF

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Unidirectional Configuration - 4 Leaf

Door Drawing PDF

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Unidirectional Configuration - 5 Leaf

Door Drawing PDF

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Unidirectional Configuration - 6 Leaf

Door Drawing PDF

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Photographic examples of our work

A finished Hangar door system. Note sheeting and trim is by others.
A finished Hangar door system. Note sheeting and trim is by others.
door-leaves
We try to maintain a 4-inch airspace between door leaves.
Our bottom rail is ASCE specification.
The top guide roller (black) is designed to move up or down within the specified live load deflection of the roof.
Door members both vertical and horizontal are hot rolled steel.
Door members both vertical and horizontal are hot rolled steel.
Steel plate wheels with dust seals and high pressure grease fittings.
Horizontal brazing for a liner panel or wainscot is optional.
Framing for access doors is optional. (ADA or NON ADA)
Framing for access doors is optional. (ADA or NON ADA)
Framing for glazing is optional.
Sensing edges
Sensing edges (yellow) will prevent the door damaging an obstruction (optional)

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