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EPD Doors & Gates Designed for Correctional Facilities


EPD Four-Fold Doors provide excellent service for transit industry applications and can be designed to meet the needs of any mass transit operation, including bus or rail facilities.

  • Doors can be designed with a cut-out to accommodate a continuous catenary wire.
  • Floor guides are not required, the doors glide easily above rails.
  • Doors can be designed to match the design of any building.
  • Controls are customized to the needs of the facility, including automated controls and photo electric eyes.

 

 

Hydraulic Bi-Swing Load Doors
EPD Model 46 Four-Fold Doors
Southeast Brooklyn Bus Garage Facility
in Brooklyn, New York

There are 20 EPD doors on this bus facility
used by the Liberty and Green Bus Lines.

Long lasting EPD Four-Fold Doors will operate
for over two million cycles.

  • Designed to last the life of the building with minimal maintenance.
  • Hydraulic operating system easily handles high cycling requirements.
  • Door panels are heavy duty, constructed with "Made in America" heavy gauge steel.
  • Doors are resistant to abuse.
  • Panels can be insulated and provide high thermal efficiencies.
  • Tight sealing weathering system developed and tested to reduce costs associated with air infiltration.
  • Doors will withstand severe weather including extreme cold, heat, and high winds.
  • Door's operating method reduces the likelihood of damage.
  • Rapidly moving door panels travel in horizontal directions.
  • Sideways motion along with quick two-feet-per-second opening and closing speeds keep the door panels in the sight-line of the driver at all times, thus reducing the chances of damage.

Discover additional information on EPD Doors used in the Transportation Industry in the following News Release and Brochure:

 

View "Hydraulic Four-Fold" Article as web page

Download as 9.6 MB pdf document

 

 

EPD Doors for Transportation brochure Web page

Download as 255K pdf document

     


EPD Model 39, Exterior Mounted Four-Fold Doors
with Catenary Cut-Out

Los Angeles Light Rail Line, Los Angeles, CA

 

Bi-Part Sliding Load Doors
EPD 2 Section Vertical Lift Door
Marta Light Rail Facility, Atlanta, Georgia

Vertical Lift Doors also provide excellent service
for the transportation industry.

     

EPD's standard Four-Fold construction meets many security and building guidelines or codes with its structural steel frame and 14-gauge sheeting. Security can be enhanced with optional bullet resistance and other security features.

In emergency situations such as power outages, the doors can be manually opened or closed without the use of tools.

 

Four-Fold Doors are perfect for new construction or retrofit.

  • Only four inches of headroom is required in many cases, much less than most other conventional door systems.
  • EPD four-folds can be installed on the interior or the exterior of the building.
  • EPD has many options available for doors, including louvers, pressure relief panels for fueling applications and vision lights.
     


Interior Mounted EPD Four-Fold Doors
Street Car Maintenance Barn, Seattle, WA

 


EPD Model 39 Four-Fold Door with a Catenary Cut Out
The doors are interior mounted at Amtrak Facility

     

Bi-Part Sliding Load Doors
Interior View of Seattle Street Car Barn
EPD Electric Four-Fold Operators

 

Vertical Lift Crane Door
EPD Electric Model 39, Four-Fold Doors
with Catenary Cut-Out

Twenty doors 15' X 20' were installed in 1990
Baltimore Light Rail, Baltimore, Maryland