PAS 24 on the new-build entrances – mandatory under Part Q. Secured by Design accreditation where the local authority calls for it. LPS 2081 on regeneration schemes with documented risk. We manufacture the steel core for every entrance door that has to do that work, at unit scale.
Housing procurement runs on volume and certification. Hundreds of identical entrance door sets per scheme. Mandatory PAS 24 compliance under Part Q. Local authority procurement teams asking for Secured by Design on top. And the door has to look like the front door of a home, not a vault door retrofitted to a hallway.
Fort Engineering manufactures for housing associations, social housing developers, local authority housing teams, build-to-rent operators, and the regeneration scheme architects working across UK boroughs. Same factory, same engineering team, same certification scheme for a 12-unit infill as for a 400-unit regeneration block.
The scheme size differs. The manufacturing standard does not.
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Threats and response
The three housing project categories that drive most procurement, and the manufacturing baseline each one calls for.
01 / Scheme
PAS 24 manual attack resistance is mandatory on all new-build residential entrance doors and ground-floor windows under Building Regulations Approved Document Q. The procurement floor for any new-build scheme, with no discretion at building control.
PAS 24 · Part Q
02 / Scheme
The police-backed crime prevention framework. Local authority procurement teams routinely call for SBD accreditation on top of PAS 24 – it’s a procurement requirement on most council-funded schemes, not a Building Regulations requirement.
SBD · Police-backed
03 / Scheme
Regeneration sites, neighbourhoods with documented break-in history, schemes where the housing provider has logged risk patterns. LPS 2081 territory – higher attack resistance than PAS 24, certified separately to the LPS 1175 family.
LPS 2081 · Higher-risk
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Products that fit
Most housing projects pull from these two product lines. Volume-deployable fabric with consistent factory finish across hundreds of identical units per scheme.
01 / Capability
PAS 24 certified entrance door sets matching Part Q baseline. Secured by Design accreditation where the local authority calls for it. LPS 2081 variants for regeneration schemes. Communal block entrance fabric. Powder-coated to any RAL with consistent finish across a fleet roll-out.
02 / Capability
PAS 24 baseline on ground-floor and accessible windows under Part Q. Heritage steel-core variants for listed-building retrofit and conservation-area new build. Matched window resistance to door spec where the scheme calls for it. Balcony glazing options across the range.
Compliance breakdown
The compliance frameworks a housing procurement team will check first, and what each one covers in plain terms.
Standard
Typical rating
Where it applies
Detail
PAS 24
All new-build residential entrance doors and ground-floor windows. Mandatory under Building Regulations Part Q. Tested to manual attack resistance protocol.
Approved Document Q
Part Q of the Building Regulations – the security requirement for new-build residential. PAS 24 is the standard that demonstrates compliance. Building control will sign off against it.
ADQ reference
Secured by Design
Police-backed crime prevention scheme. Procurement requirement on most council-funded and local authority schemes. Sits alongside PAS 24, not instead of it.
LPS 2081
LPCB residential door and window security standard at higher attack resistance than PAS 24. Specified on regeneration schemes and documented higher-risk neighbourhoods.
LPS 2081 reference
The four rows above are the standards a housing procurement team will check first. Project-specific specifications may layer on others – fire safety post-Grenfell (Approved Document B), accessibility (Document M), acoustic (Approved Document E). The PAS 24 page covers the mandatory baseline in detail.
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Selected projects
Case studies for the housing sector are in preparation. Selected housing association, local authority, and regeneration scheme 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. Housing association and social housing procurement is fulfilled by Fort Security Doors, our commercial customer brand.
