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Every opening deserves an independent specification.

SPC Alliance is an independent body that brings door, frame and hardware manufacturers together with the specifiers, architects and owners who put their products to work. Its education and technical guidance answer to the project, and member manufacturers earn visibility on the strength of what they make.

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Education  ·  Specification  ·  Transparency
The alliance

Product knowledge belongs in the specification.

Life safety, accessibility, security and long-term durability all ride on how door openings are specified and coordinated.

SPC Alliance translates manufacturer product expertise into content, education and guidance that supports better decisions from early evaluation through installation. The work connects hardware, access control and the sections that govern them, so what arrives on site is one complete, buildable system.

The alliance is independent. It carries no product lines of its own, and specification writing is credited where it belongs: to the spec writer members who write these sections professionally.

Who we are
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Programs

Programs built around the specification.

Education, guide specifications, sustainability documentation and site audits, with a quality program in development.

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Sustainability & Transparency

EPDs, HPDs and the data behind them are mapped to a staged path, so products stay eligible when the question reaches the specification.

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Continuing Education

Design teams join accredited live online sessions on door opening systems, presented by the person closest to the subject.

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Guide Specifications

Guide specification sections written by our spec writer members to current standards, released for design firms to edit into their masters.

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AI Crawler Audits

Each audit tests what AI assistants can read on a manufacturer site, page by page, and ends in a prioritized fix list.

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Openings Quality Program

The program pairs a practice standard for independent openings specification with third-party review of the openings package before bid.

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For design professionals

Design teams work with a technical partner on the opening.

Architects, specifiers, interior designers and owners draw on accredited education, open guide specification sections and technical support for code compliance, performance requirements and transparent materials.

Open guide spec sections

Complete sections with current standards and coordinated hardware, available today through our spec writer members.

Accredited CEU sessions, live online

Fire door assemblies, accessibility at the opening, access control coordination and specification coordination, accredited for AIA continuing education credit and scheduled around your team's calendar.

A technical answer when a project raises one

Access to the product knowledge of member manufacturers and spec writer members when a hardware question comes up on a job.

What design teams receive
Member manufacturers

These are the companies behind the alliance.

Manufacturers who share the commitment to code compliance, verified performance and transparent materials, and who bring their technical expertise to the work.

TownSteelAMBICOSELECT Products LimitedPBB IncABH ManufacturingCommand AccessCamden Door ControlsWatersonDetexDon-JoActivar CPGFR InternationalHawaRutlandINOX by Unison HardwareLIF IndustriesHMF ExpressSALTOStandard Metal HardwareVT IndustriesTotal LEDEliasonSennecaPDQTotal Door SystemsEgan Visual
Membership
Continuing education

The best continuing education answers questions a project is already asking.

Every session runs live online, presented by the person closest to the subject. Your team joins from any office, the assemblies and details are on screen, and questions get answered while the drawing is still open.

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Insights

Specifiers are asking AI first.

What an assistant can read on a manufacturer's website now decides what it says when an architect asks.

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Contact

Start with a short conversation.

info@spcalliance.org508-252-6712