Healthcare Project Case Study

Complete Healthcare Door System for a Hospital Construction Project in Nigeria

Qi’an Door supplied fire rated doors, radiation protection doors, acoustic fire doors and wooden doors for a hospital project in Nigeria — engineered zone by zone from the project’s Door Schedule and architectural drawings and delivered as one coordinated healthcare door package.

Nigeria, West Africa
Healthcare Facility
UL 10C Fire Rated Doors
Radiation Protection Doors
Acoustic & Wooden Doors
2024 Delivery

Project at a Glance

2024Delivery year
5Door systems in
one supply scope
45–90 minUL 10C fire ratings
supplied to the project
47 dBHighest acoustic rating
supplied
100%Made to the project
Door Schedule and drawings

Project Overview

Guangdong Qi’an Door Industry Co., Ltd. supplied a complete healthcare door system for a hospital construction project in Nigeria, covering fire rated steel doors, radiation protection doors, acoustic fire doors and wooden fire doors across the functional zones of a single medical facility.

This was not a single-product order. A hospital building splits into zones that each carry their own safety and operational logic — fire compartments, imaging departments, consultation and ICU areas, and general circulation — and the door package had to satisfy every zone without fragmenting into separate supply threads. Qi’an Door worked on the project as a healthcare door system solution provider, coordinating fire, radiation and acoustic requirements inside one integrated door package.

Engineering work started from the client’s BOQ, Door Schedule and architectural drawings. Opening dimensions, frame depth, hardware preparation and core construction were confirmed against project documentation before production was released, so that each opening received a door built for that opening rather than a catalogue substitute. The same engineering and project support process applies to all of our overseas case work.

Project Snapshot
Project	Nigeria Hospital Project
Location	Nigeria, West Africa
Year	2024
Building Type	Hospital construction project / healthcare facility with multiple functional zones
Door Supplier	Guangdong Qi’an Door Industry Co., Ltd.
Solution Provided	Complete healthcare door system solution under one supply scope
Main Products	UL fire rated doors, radiation protection doors, radiation acoustic doors, acoustic fire doors, wooden fire doors, wooden glass fire doors, wooden interior doors, floor spring doors
Fire Standard	UL 10C
Fire Resistance	45-minute, 60-minute and 90-minute ratings, matched to the compartmentation role of each zone
Acoustic Performance	Up to 47 dB, with acoustic fire doors combining sound insulation and fire resistance in a single doorset
Radiation Shielding	Lead plate shielding structure built into the door construction, with a fire acoustic core
Customization	Manufactured to project BOQ, Door Schedule, architectural drawings and project-specified hardware requirements
Project Support	CAD shop drawing confirmation, hardware coordination, custom dimensions, quality inspection and export packaging

Hospital complex with glazed curtain wall, canopy entrance, blue accent banding and landscaped forecourt — Project site photograph. The hospital complex for which Qi’an Door manufactured the healthcare door package — fire rated doors, radiation protection doors, acoustic doors and wooden doors produced to customer-approved drawings.

Healthcare Project Background

Door specification in a hospital is not a finishes decision. It is part of the building’s safety and functional system, and it changes from one zone to the next.

Why Hospital Buildings Require an Integrated Door System

Modern healthcare facilities place higher demands on door systems than most other building types. A hospital door is rarely only a means of passage. Within a single building, different departments require entirely different door performance, and one product cannot satisfy all of them.

Fire compartmentation — so that fire and smoke are contained within defined zones during an emergency, with each compartment door rated to its own role.
Radiation protection — for departments using imaging or radiological equipment, where shielding is a life-safety and staff-safety requirement rather than an optional upgrade.
Acoustic privacy — for consultation rooms, ICUs and functional areas, where patient confidentiality and a controlled sound environment matter to clinical work.
Daily operational reliability — hospital doors are in continuous use around the clock and must perform consistently under heavy daily traffic.

We do not hold site details for this project — including the hospital name, address, developer, facility scale or building area — as this information falls outside our supply role. What we can document directly is the door system scope we supplied and the engineering process behind it, which is set out on this page.

Project Requirements & Qi’an Solutions

A hospital is not a single-specification building. It is a collection of functional zones, and a single door type applied across the whole facility would fail at least some of them.

Requirement 01

Fire Compartmentation Across Multiple Zones

Fire-rated zones needed doors verified to UL 10C, with the correct rating matched to each zone’s compartmentation role — not one rating applied everywhere.

45 min, 60 min and 90 min ratings supplied
Steel, wooden and steel-wood composite construction
Ratings tracked zone by zone from the Door Schedule

Requirement 02

Radiation Shielding for Imaging Departments

X-ray and imaging rooms required shielding built into the door itself. The door could not be a fire door with a different label — the lead shielding, frame and core had to be engineered together as one assembly.

Lead plate shielding structure inside the door construction
1.2 mm galvanized steel frame
Fire acoustic core retained alongside the shielding

Requirement 03

Acoustic Privacy Combined with Fire Resistance

Consultation rooms and ICU areas needed acoustic performance, and for ICU and functional rooms that performance had to be delivered without sacrificing fire compartmentation — a more demanding condition than a standard acoustic door.

Up to 47 dB sound insulation
Acoustic fire doors rated to UL 10C
Vision panels where staff need a sightline

Requirement 04

Reliability Under Continuous Hospital Traffic

Public and interior areas prioritised durability and appearance over specialised performance, with doors prepared for project-specified hardware and continuous daily use.

Wooden fire, wooden glass fire and interior doors
Floor spring doors for the main entrance and high-traffic areas
Frame reinforcement and cut-outs prepared for client hardware

Area-by-Area Door Mapping

Getting this mapping wrong — a standard acoustic door where an acoustic fire door was required, or a fire door without shielding in an imaging room — would have meant a product that could not be installed or, worse, one that appeared compliant without meeting the zone’s functional requirement.

Area Requirement → Door System Supplied
Area	Door Required	Performance Delivered
Fire zone / escape route	UL fire door	UL 10C, 45 / 60 / 90 min to suit the compartment
X-ray room, radiology, imaging	Radiation protection door	Lead plate shielding plus fire acoustic core, UL 10C, 45 min
Consultation room	Acoustic door	Up to 47 dB sound insulation
ICU / monitored functional room	Acoustic fire door	40 dB sound insulation and UL 10C fire rating in one doorset
Interior and public areas	Wooden door	Wooden fire doors, wooden glass fire doors and wooden interior doors
Main entrance / high-traffic areas	Floor spring door	Built for continuous daily use at entrance and circulation points

What the Project Demonstrated

Managing this correctly meant tracking performance requirements opening by opening across the entire Door Schedule rather than filling a single bulk order. For a manufacturer, that is an engineering and documentation workload as much as a production one — and it is the part of a hospital package that is easiest to underestimate. Qi’an Door’s wider project case portfolio follows the same approach.

Project Door Solutions

Five door systems were manufactured and supplied under a single coordinated package for this project.

Door Systems Supplied
Door System	Where It Was Used	Key Performance
UL fire door system	Fire compartments, equipment rooms and functional areas	UL 10C, 45 / 60 / 90 min
Radiation protection door system	X-ray rooms, radiology department, medical imaging areas	Lead plate shielding, UL 10C, 45 min
Acoustic door system	Consultation rooms, ICU and functional rooms	40 dB and 47 dB products
Wooden door system	Interior, public and appearance-critical areas	Fire, glass fire and interior variants
Public area door system	Main entrance and other high-traffic public areas	Built for continuous daily use

System 01

UL Fire Door System

We supplied steel fire doors, wooden fire doors and steel-wood composite fire doors manufactured to the UL 10C fire standard with 45-minute, 60-minute and 90-minute ratings. These were produced for fire compartments, equipment rooms and other healthcare functional areas requiring fire-rated separation. Explore our fire rated steel door range and wooden fire rated doors for comparable specifications.

System 02

Radiation Protection Door System

We manufactured radiation protection doors and radiation acoustic doors for the project’s X-ray rooms, radiology department and medical imaging areas. Each door frame was built from 1.2 mm galvanized steel sheet, with a lead plate shielding structure for radiation protection and a fire acoustic core. The doors were produced to UL 10C at a 45-minute fire rating, with radiation shielding performance built into the door construction rather than added afterwards.

System 03

Acoustic Door System

Two acoustic door products were supplied for this project: a steel-wood acoustic glass door at 47 dB, and a UL steel acoustic fire door with vision panel at 40 dB. Both combine sound insulation with fire performance, so the hospital did not need separate door systems for privacy and for compartmentation. See our acoustic fire rated steel doors and soundproof door ranges for the underlying product systems.

System 04

Wooden Door System

We supplied wooden fire doors, wooden glass fire doors and wooden interior doors for this project. These products combine fire safety performance with an architectural finish appropriate for hospital public and interior areas, where appearance matters alongside compliance. Glazed wooden fire doors used the same composite fire rated glazing approach applied across our door ranges.

System 05

Public Area Door System

We supplied floor spring doors for the project’s main entrance and other high-traffic public areas, where durability under continuous daily use is the governing requirement. Floor spring construction keeps the leaf hardware out of the traffic path, which matters at an entrance that is in use throughout the working day.

Note

One Package, Not Five Orders

The five systems above were produced and delivered as one coordinated supply package, with a single technical contact for drawing confirmation, hardware matching and inspection. That structure is what allowed a multi-standard hospital scope to stay consistent through manufacturing, packing and shipment.

Hospital corridor with double-leaf wooden doors fitted with stainless steel push bars and overhead closers — Project site photograph supplied with the project record. Hospital corridor doors with stainless steel push bars and overhead closers, from the wooden door package produced for the project’s interior and public circulation areas.

Acoustic Door Specifications

Both acoustic products supplied for this project are set out below as they were manufactured, with the construction layers and glazing confirmed against the project’s Door Schedule.

Product A — Steel-Wood Acoustic Glass Door

Product A — Steel-Wood Acoustic Glass Door
Sound Insulation	47 dB
Door Frame	1.2 mm galvanized steel sheet
Door Leaf	1 mm HPL panel + 3 mm plywood + 3 mm MDF + acoustic door core + PVC edge sealing
Glass	40 mm composite fire acoustic glass
Visible Glass Size	250 × 750 mm
Door Thickness	70 mm

Product B — UL Steel Acoustic Fire Door With Vision Panel

Product B — UL Steel Acoustic Fire Door With Vision Panel
Standard	UL 10C
Sound Insulation	40 dB
Door Frame	1.2 mm galvanized steel sheet, welded structure, 30 × 30 mm edge finishing strip, mineral wool filling
Door Leaf	0.8 mm galvanized steel sheet + acoustic door core
Glass	32 mm composite fire acoustic glass
Visible Glass Size	250 × 750 mm
Door Thickness	55 mm
Wall Thickness	130 mm
Surface Finish	Powder coating

Featured Product Detail

The UL steel acoustic fire door with vision panel was the most technically demanding doorset on this project, because it had to hold three performance requirements at once.

UL Steel Acoustic Fire Door With Vision Panel

We developed this product for hospital areas that need fire protection, acoustic control and visibility at the same time — consultation rooms, functional treatment rooms and monitored patient areas — giving staff a clear sightline through the door without compromising fire or acoustic performance.

Component Specification
Door Frame	1.2 mm galvanized steel sheet, welded structure, 30 × 30 mm edge strip, mineral wool filling
Door Leaf	0.8 mm galvanized steel sheet + acoustic core, 40 dB sound insulation, UL 10C
Glass Vision Panel	32 mm composite fire acoustic glass, visible size 250 × 750 mm
Door Thickness	55 mm
Wall Thickness	130 mm
Surface Finish	Powder coating

Hardware Coordination

A significant part of the hardware on this door was specified by the client rather than taken from our standard package. Our door construction — particularly frame thickness, reinforcement placement and cut-outs — was therefore engineered to accept that specific hardware set.

Client-Specified

Customer Supplied Hardware

Qi’an Scope

Qi’an Supplied Hardware

We manufactured this door to integrate with the customer-specified hardware set, while supplying the core structural hardware — hinges and door bottom seal — as part of our production scope.

Reference photograph: steel fire door with vision panels and stainless steel push plates in a hospital corridor — Reference photograph. A steel fire door with glazed vision panels, stainless steel push plates and a painted frame, shown in a hospital corridor. This image illustrates the general configuration of a hospital fire door of the kind used in healthcare circulation; it is not a project site photograph and does not show the products supplied for this project.

This image is used for reference only, to illustrate the general configuration of a steel fire door with vision panels in a healthcare circulation area. It is not a photograph of this project’s site, it does not show Qi’an Door products, and it does not show work installed by Qi’an Door. No endorsement, sponsorship or affiliation with any organisation whose premises or signage may appear in the image is intended or implied, and all names and marks visible in the image remain the property of their respective owners. Qi’an Door manufactured and supplied the doors for this project to customer-approved drawings; the claim on this page rests on that documented supply scope, not on this photograph.

Engineering, Manufacturing & Delivery

From engineering drawings to final delivery, the project ran through a controlled process with dimensional accuracy, core construction and hardware fit checked at each key stage.

Material Selection
Steel Cutting
Bending
Frame Fabrication
Core Filling
Reinforcement & Welding
Surface Treatment
Hardware Preparation
Door Assembly
Inspection
Export Packaging

Stage 01

Engineering Review & Drawing Confirmation

Our engineering team handled CAD drawing confirmation, Door Schedule review, hardware matching for client-supplied and self-supplied items, custom dimensions, and special structures such as the radiation shielding and acoustic cores used on this project.

Opening-by-opening review of the Door Schedule
Custom dimensions taken from architectural drawings
Frame depth set against each zone’s wall thickness

Stage 02

Controlled Production Process

Once drawings were confirmed, production followed a defined sequence — material preparation, cutting and bending, welding, reinforcement, fire and acoustic core filling, powder coating, hardware assembly, quality inspection and export packaging.

Fire and acoustic cores filled to confirmed construction
Lead shielding built in for radiation protection doors
Hardware cut-outs prepared to client-supplied items

Engineering Support Behind the Project

We coordinated the production schedule with technical documentation and export logistics to deliver the full multi-product door package — fire, radiation and acoustic doors — to Nigeria within the project’s construction timeline. Export packaging was prepared so that doorsets arrived complete and identifiable per opening, reducing handling and re-work on site. Read more about our project support and engineering service and the certification and quality documentation we can provide with a supply package.

Frequently Asked Questions

What door types does a hospital project need, and how do they differ by area?

Hospitals typically require different door solutions according to functional areas, including UL fire rated doors for fire compartments, radiation protection doors for X-ray and imaging rooms, acoustic doors for consultation rooms, and acoustic fire doors for ICU and special functional rooms. Qi’an Door manages these different door requirements as one coordinated healthcare door supply package.

What door types did Qi’an Door supply for the Nigeria hospital project?

Qi’an Door supplied steel fire doors, wooden fire doors and steel-wood composite fire doors to the UL 10C standard at 45-minute, 60-minute and 90-minute ratings; radiation protection doors and radiation acoustic doors with a lead plate shielding structure for the imaging areas; a steel-wood acoustic glass door at 47 dB and a UL steel acoustic fire door with vision panel at 40 dB; wooden fire, wooden glass fire and wooden interior doors; and floor spring doors for the main entrance and other high-traffic public areas.

What is a radiation protection door?

A radiation protection door integrates lead shielding layers with fire resistant and acoustic core materials inside a steel door structure. It is designed for X-ray, radiology and imaging rooms where radiation shielding, fire safety and durability are all required. On this project each frame was built from 1.2 mm galvanized steel sheet and the doors were produced to UL 10C at a 45-minute fire rating.

Can acoustic doors also meet fire rating requirements for hospitals?

Yes. Qi’an Door manufactures acoustic fire doors that combine sound insulation performance with fire resistance requirements, helping hospitals achieve both privacy control and fire compartmentation without installing separate door systems. On this project the UL steel acoustic fire door with vision panel delivered 40 dB sound insulation together with a UL 10C fire rating.

How does Qi’an Door handle complex hospital Door Schedules?

Qi’an Door reviews project BOQs, Door Schedules and architectural drawings, confirms CAD shop drawings, coordinates hardware requirements and manufactures customized doors according to each area’s technical specifications. Performance requirements are tracked opening by opening rather than filled as a single bulk order, so each zone receives the door type and rating its role requires.

Can hospital doors be manufactured to accept project-specified hardware?

Yes. On this project a significant part of the hardware for the featured door was client-specified, including the door closer, coordinator, push plates, flush bolts, dust socket, concealed door magnet and electromagnetic lock. The door construction — frame thickness, reinforcement placement and cut-outs — was engineered to accept that specific hardware set, while Qi’an Door supplied the 304 stainless steel hinges and door bottom dust seal within its own production scope.

Building a Hospital or Healthcare Facility?

If you are building a hospital, healthcare facility or medical building, we invite you to share your project documentation with our team — your BOQ, Door Schedule, drawings and technical requirements. Our engineering team will review your project and respond with technical support, customized production planning and a complete door solution matched to your building’s fire, radiation and acoustic requirements.

Please send your BOQ, Door Schedule and architectural drawings, together with the project location and the fire rating standards required.

We can review the requirements and develop a suitable customized door solution for your project.

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