PAS 24 and LPS 1175 SR2 on the new-build entrances. BB67 and BB68 layout on the rooms behind them. Lockdown-grade hardware on the classroom side. We manufacture the steel core for every door that has to do that work.
Education estates run on tight summers and tighter budgets. The security elements have to land complete, certified, and ready for term one – no remediation visits, no Part Q surprises, no specification creep at handover.
Fort Engineering manufactures for primary schools, secondary schools, FE colleges, and universities across the UK. Same factory, same engineering team, same certification scheme for a 240-pupil rural primary as for a Russell Group residential block.
The compliance vocabulary differs by project type. The manufacturing standard does not.
FE/EDU-01
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Threats and response
The three security scenarios that drive most education procurement, and the manufacturing response that handles each.
01 / Threat
The most common procurement driver in education. PAS 24 manual attack resistance on entrance doors as the new-build baseline, with LPS 1175 SR2 specified on the higher-risk elevations – reception offices holding records, IT rooms, examinations stores.
PAS 24 · LPS 1175 SR2
02 / Threat
Run, Hide, Tell-aligned design. BB67 and BB68 layout guidance from the Department for Education. Hardware that fails closed under attack. Door geometry that supports the school’s incident protocol, not one drafted in a vacuum.
BB67 / BB68 · DfE-aligned
03 / Threat
Single-action lockdown from the classroom side – teacher-controllable, no fumbling, no key. Centralised override at the head’s office. Coordinated with the wider lockdown procedure rather than bolted onto it after the fact.
Lockdown-grade hardware
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Products that fit
Most education projects pull from these two product lines. Shopfronts and safe rooms are rare in this sector and aren’t called out here.
01 / Capability
PAS 24 entrance doors as standard. LPS 1175 SR2 on vulnerable elevations. Lockdown-grade interior doors with single-action classroom-side closure. Fire-rated assemblies where the compartment requires it. Powder-coated to any RAL with no security compromise.
02 / Capability
Security-rated windows where the door spec calls for matched window resistance. Bulletproof glazing options for the rare reception specifications. Heritage and listed-building variants for the older estate, with steel-core Accoya framing.
Compliance breakdown
The compliance frameworks a procurement team will check first on an education project, and what each one covers in plain terms.
Standard
Typical rating
Where it applies
Detail
PAS 24
New-build entrance doors. Manual attack resistance to BS PAS 24. Part Q referenced where the school sits within a wider development.
LPS 1175
Higher-risk entries – reception offices, exam stores, IT rooms. LPCB-tested resistance to a defined attack-tool set, third-party verified.
BB67 / BB68
Department for Education guidance on acoustic, security, and counter-terror layout. Referenced on most new-build school briefs. Not a certification, a design framework.
DfE reference
Secured by Design
Police-backed crime prevention scheme. Local authority procurement often calls for it on education schemes that touch wider community use.
The four rows above are the standards a procurement team will check first. Project-specific specifications may layer on others – fire compartment (BS 476), acoustic (BB93), accessibility (Document M). The LPS 1175 page covers the most-asked-about rating in detail.
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Selected projects
Case studies for the education sector are in preparation. Selected projects will appear here as they’re cleared for publication. In the meantime, the full case studies index covers projects across all six sectors.
Fort Engineering manufactures. School and university procurement is fulfilled by Fort Security Doors, our commercial customer brand.
