Vanier is a junior college in the Montréal area, whose student population numbers over 6,700 full-time diploma students with an additional 4,000 students attending through the Continuing Education Department. Recent security threats at similar schools nearby initiated a request to equip every corridor and classroom with new, improved locks.

This is not an easy job with buildings dating back to the 1890s. Situated on an oasis of green in the Borough of Saint-Laurent of the City of Montreal, the College-Ste. Croix Campus occupies property and 11 buildings purchased by the government from the Soeurs de Sainte-Croix who previously operated a convent and a private women’s college in the location.

Some of the buildings date back to the nineteenth century and have undergone considerable renovations over the years to accommodate the changing needs of post secondary education.

“We already had Schlage CL & CM standalone access control locks system in place that read magnetic cards. So, when the request for tighter security came into our office, we responded by bringing in the Schlage AD-400 Series wireless locks. One reason was that the newly adopted (2010) smart cards that we use are open architecture MIFARE® cards. Since the AD-Series is also based on an open architecture, we would not need to switch out our cards. […]

Source www.doorsecurity.ca