AEC definitions
A door schedule is a table on the drawings that lists each door by its mark and states the size, thickness, material, rating, frame, and hardware set. The number in the tag on the floor plan is the row in the schedule.
Definition
The plan shows where the door is. The schedule says what the door is. Without the schedule, a tag is only a number. Columns vary by office, but a usable schedule covers mark, width, height, thickness, door type, frame type, fire rating, hardware group, and remarks such as undercut or glazing. A separate hardware schedule, sometimes prepared by a hardware consultant, defines what each group contains. The specification states the quality and the acceptable manufacturers.
In depth
Every door tag on the plan needs a row. Every row needs a door on the plan, unless the remarks say the opening is existing to remain or not in contract. Orphan rows and orphan tags are the first check.
Marks should be stable. Renumbering doors after hardware has been keyed is an expensive way to clean up a spreadsheet. Add new marks at the end if the set is already issued.
A 60-minute door in a non-rated wall, or a non-rated door in a 1-hour wall, is a coordination error. The partition type on the plan and the rating column in the schedule have to agree. Sidelights and borrowed lites inherit the same problem.
The schedule states the rating. The specification and the door type state the construction that achieves it, including the closer, the seal, and the glazing. A rated door with hardware group 1, if group 1 has no closer, does not meet the rating.
Listing every hinge and lock in the door schedule makes a sheet nobody updates. Groups (HW-1, HW-2) point to a hardware schedule that lists the sets. Electrified hardware, card readers, and hold-opens have to appear there or the electrical drawings will not show the power.
The hardware consultant, the architect, and the electrical engineer are three authors. Someone has to check that a scheduled card reader has a circuit. That check is part of drawing coordination.
A type mark (A, B, C) points to a small elevation of the door: flush, half-glass, full-lite. The schedule's type column and those elevations are one document. Changing the type elevation without the schedule, or the reverse, orders the wrong leaf.
Frame types work the same way. A borrowed-lite frame and a pressed-steel three-sided frame are not interchangeable because both say 'frame' in a column.
Door and frame suppliers bid from the schedule, the types, and the specification. A remark that says verify in field, used on half the rows, pushes the designer's job to the field. Use it for existing openings you truly cannot dimension, and put a number on the rest.
Addenda that add a door need a new row, a tag on the plan, and a hardware group. A cloud on the plan without a schedule line is how the opening arrives as a hollow-metal frame with no leaf in the order.
Examples
Door 101A on the plan is 3 feet by 7 feet, type B, 60-minute, hardware HW-4. The partition tag at that wall is a 1-hour type. The rating matches.
The schedule lists door 240. No tag 240 exists on the plans. The row is deleted or the tag is added before bid.
Hardware group HW-2 includes a magnetic hold-open. The electrical power plan has no connection at those doors. Coordination adds the circuit.
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