Twenty-Seven Hardware Categories, One Door Opening
A commercial or institutional door opening has more hardware decision points than most building owners realize until the punch list arrives. The COD Door Hardware Schedule in Memento Database captures the complete hardware matrix per opening: hanging device type and count, securing devices for both active and inactive leaves, non-mechanical trim, pair accessories, door control devices, protective plates, stops and holders, seals, miscellaneous hardware, and electrified hardware products for security access-controlled openings.
Ten numbered hardware categories plus door identity and dimensional data per record. Barcode scanning links each digital record to a physical door sticker in the field, allowing rapid retrieval of any opening's specified hardware during installation, inspection, or punch-list verification.
Hand of Door and Why Getting It Wrong Is Expensive
Hand of Door—Right-handed or Left-handed—is the field that determines which strike-side the lockset cylinder sits on, which direction the door swings, and which lever orientation the specified hardware requires. Ordering a right-handed lockset for a left-handed opening means returning hardware after the order has been processed, the project schedule has moved, and the lead time clock has reset.
The parenthetical in the field label—"Locking Door if Dbl Doors"—addresses the paired opening case directly. For double doors, hand designation applies to the active leaf: the one that carries the primary securing device and operates independently. The inactive leaf has its own securing device category (field 2a), with distinct options—Surface Bolts, Flush Bolts, Dust-Proof Strikes, Removable Mullions, Exit Devices with Trim, Two-Point Locks—that reflect the different hardware function of a leaf that is secured at top and bottom rather than through a lockset.
SAC Doors and the Electrified Hardware Record
Field 10—Electrified Hardware Products—applies only to security access-controlled openings. The options: None (Non-SAC Door), Power Supplies, Key Switches, Door Position Switches, Card Readers, Key Pads, Push Buttons, and Wall Switches. A door that is on the SAC scope carries all of these fields as relevant specifications. A standard interior door carries None.
The distinction matters for subcontractor scope. The door hardware contractor is typically responsible for the mechanical hardware. The electrified hardware—card readers, power supplies, door position switches—may fall under a separate electronic security contractor's scope, with coordination points at the lockset, electric strike or mag lock, and power transfer device. A hardware schedule that clearly marks which openings are SAC and what electrified components are specified creates the coordination document that prevents scope gaps at rough-in.
Protective Plates and the Abuse-Resistance Specification
Field 6—Protective Plates—includes Mop Plates, Kick Plates, Stretcher Plates, Armor Plates, and Door Edges. These selections reflect the use environment of the opening. A hospital corridor door that will be struck by gurneys and stretchers on daily cycles is a Stretcher Plates opening. A loading dock door that will take pallet jack impacts is a Kick Plates opening. An exterior door in a high-traffic retail environment may warrant Armor Plates across the full push face.
Specifying the correct protective plate at the hardware schedule stage prevents premature door damage that requires replacement at a fraction of the building's service life. Logging it per Door ID in the Memento database gives the building owner a reference point for future maintenance decisions and replacement specifications when the door package eventually needs to be replicated for a renovation or expansion.
Special Door and Frame Information—the free-text field for non-standard conditions—is where the frame that is not a standard hollow metal profile gets documented: the storefront aluminum frame requiring special fasteners, the historic masonry wall where the frame had to be reworked, the site condition that required a non-standard installation approach. The hardware schedule is not only a procurement document; it is a field-verification record.