Common question
How long does a door hardware specification take?
Turnaround depends on opening count and how settled the drawings are, and ASC gives a date with the fee rather than after the work starts. A specification written from a stable door schedule moves faster than one written while the schedule is still changing.
What sets the timeline
Open decisions cost time.
The variable that moves a schedule most is not the size of the building. It is how many decisions are still open when the work begins. A project with a fixed door schedule, a known access control scope, and a settled keying approach is quick. One where those three are unresolved takes as long as it takes to resolve them.
Submittal review and substitution response run on the project’s own review clock, and ASC works to the deadline the project sets.
Related questions
Can you work to a deadline?
Yes. Send the issue date with the drawings and you get a straight answer on whether it is workable.
What is a typical turnaround?
[Typical turnaround pending confirmation.]
What slows a specification down?
An unsettled door schedule, an undecided access control scope, and a keying approach nobody has agreed.
Build note, remove before publishing. The direct answer holds without invented figures, but the second FAQ answer needs a real turnaround range from you. If you would rather publish no number at all, say so and the question comes off the page.
Start here
Bring the openings to the desk.
Send the drawings, the schedule, or the question. ASC will tell you what the specification needs.