Gulf Bay Hotel Fire Door Programme

Project — Hospitality

Gulf Bay Hotel Fire Door Programme

Dubai, UAE

Project dossier

Client
Gulf Bay Resort Holdings
Location
Dubai, UAE
Industry
Hospitality
Scope
480 Ei 30 wooden fire door sets: guestroom entrance and corridor doors, hardware matched per leaf
Scale
5-star resort, 480 keys
Status
Delivered 2026
Delivery timeline
PO to final phase: 30 weeks
Cost band
USD 480K–620K doors package
Sample data

Designed by

Atelier Sabla

Procured by

Cedar Lane Procurement

Owner / operator

Gulf Bay Resort Holdings

Overcoming challenges

The brief, and how we landed it

The challenge

The FF&E contractor defaulted on the door package 14 weeks before the first floor handover, and the doors were on the critical path: no certificate of occupancy without them. The interior scheme required doors veneered to match the guestroom casework, which ruled out catalogue product. Sequencing was unforgiving — floors handed over six at a time, and on-site storage was limited to one week of doors.

How we delivered

We re-engineered the door to the tested Ei 30 configuration with the project veneer and ran all 480 leaves on a single production line, batching by rating, width and veneer batch so corridor and guestroom doors matched. Every door shipped as a numbered set — leaf, pre-hung frame, hardware pack, seals — matched to its room number and installation manual. Six phased deliveries matched the handover calendar, each with frame templates and node drawings for the local contractor.

Scope of supply

What left our loading dock

Supply list

  • 480 Ei 30 wooden fire door sets: leaf, pre-hung frame, CE-marked hardware, intumescent seals
  • Guestroom doors veneered to match the guestroom casework
  • Corridor doors in project lacquer colour, smoke-sealed
  • Vision panels in tested sizes on selected doors
  • Six phased deliveries matched to floor handovers
  • Frame templates and installation node drawings per phase

Materials used

  • Walnut Veneer
  • PU Lacquer
  • Steel-reinforced Hardwood
  • CE-marked Hardware

Value engineering on this project

Batching all 480 leaves by width and veneer batch cut veneer waste to under 8% and kept corridor-to-room colour match within one dye lot. Consolidating to one hardware set across the hotel reduced the hardware SKU count from eleven to four and simplified the maintenance spare-parts shelf. Flat-packing frames separately from leaves cut one full container from the programme.

The pieces

Supplied from our lines

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