Trade file · Build and fit-out
Hospitality Radar follows 5,780 hotel projects in planning, construction and renovation. For doors, frames and ironmongery, about 840 of them are being specified right now, while the products are still being chosen, and about 880 are buying. A product that is already in the spec goes into the tender with the best odds.
Hotel projects entering specification for doors, frames and ironmongery, by quarter.
Hotel projects entering the purchasing window for doors, frames and ironmongery, by quarter.
Estimate from each project's opening year and typical lead times for this trade. Later quarters fill up as new projects are announced, so a lower bar further out is not a falling market.
Cities with the most hotel projects being specified for this trade right now. The city file opens with your trade on top.
Projects being specified now or entering specification in the next 12 months, by region.
Share of projects with a known class. Our coverage is strongest in upscale and luxury hotels; midscale and select-service projects are being added.
For doors, frames and ironmongery, specification typically runs from 30 to 18 months before opening and purchasing from 20 to 10 months before opening. There are two ways into a project: through the specification or through the tender. A product that is already in the spec goes into the tender with the best odds.
Doorsets are specified by the architect and fire safety consultant together with the interior designer, since fire certification is bound to the specific door and frame combination. Electronic locks are specified by the hotel brand or owner, with international brand standards such as Marriott's Mobile Key programme restricting the approved supplier pool, while independent hotels choose freely.
Fire doorsets and electronic locks are specified on different timelines, so a single hotel project opens two separate buying windows months apart. Suppliers tracking only press releases tend to arrive too late for doors or too early for locks.
Lock electronics are moving inside the door body so the guestroom door reads as residential rather than institutional. dormakaba's Quantum Pixel+ is a current example, winning a 2025 design award for exactly this shift.
Source: securityinfowatch.com
Large hotel groups such as Marriott now mandate Mobile Key across every property and certify only a small number of lock suppliers for it. That concentrates demand on a handful of platforms at brand level, even as independent hotels keep an open supplier choice.
Source: ofhub.marriott.com
Owners running hotels under several different brand flags increasingly standardise on a single lock supplier across the whole portfolio rather than following each flag's own standard. This gives lock manufacturers a route to multi-property deals that bypass single-brand approval lists.
Source: hospitalitynet.org
Lock and access control platforms are being wired directly into property management systems rather than operated as a standalone layer, letting hotels issue mobile and physical keys straight from reservation data. This turns the lock decision into a software integration question as much as a hardware one.
Source: hoteltechreport.com
Door hardware and ironmongery schedules are connected to joinery, wall build-ups and fire certification, so waiting until procurement to settle them leaves little room to adjust. Trade coverage of hotel construction projects repeatedly flags late hardware schedules as a source of delay.
Source: blog.doorindustryjournal.co.uk
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As of November 2026. Figures are estimates, rounded, and recalculated with every update of the radar.