Profile
Castle Shelter Group was founded to provide solutions for custom door design challenges. Castle Shelter Group unifies a team of blast door manufacturers and engineers with a cumulative knowledge base of over 220 years of designing, engineering and manufacturing blast resistant and forced entry resistant doors for military, government and civil shelters worldwide. Many of our expert design team are recognized worldwide for their expertise in blast resistant design, testing, and protective or structural design.
Design Capabilities:
Castle Shelter Group remains focused on attracting and retaining the top talent with the unique experience and capabilities that only can be attained by working on projects directly related to this field. We currently work with many customers as consultants and/or advisers to ensure that the door portion of the facility design is completed correctly. We consult from the initial budgetary phase through the initial design phase to final detailing and specification reading / commenting. We then team with prime contractors in their pursuit of the project with relevant experience and knowledge to aid them in the bid process. In the final phase we design, manufacture and deliver the blast and or forced entry resistant doors to the customer. Access to US Government and other testing facilities is also available upon request to qualified customers.
Manufacturing Capabilities:
With manufacturing available in three locations in North America and one location in Europe, Castle Shelter Group has over 500 tons of crane lift capacity available for the most demanding project. Very large protective doors that require special shipping arrangements by rail are manufactured in one facility; doors with complex actuation and controls requirements in another; our European facility designs and manufactures blast doors with their 60 plus years of blast door manufacturing experience; and our Texas facility is optimized for hollow metal blast, ballistic, forced entry and fire rated doors. Experienced fabricators and certified welders; relationships with and direct access to the steel mills and other vendors for large purchases; a design team that has deep, relevant experience and the top tools available means doors designed, manufactured and delivered with pride, quality and performance at the forefront.
Our team of experts include:
- Structural Engineers with unique experience in blast and seismic resistant design
- Mechanical Engineers with decades of relevant experience in deep underground shelters
- Blast Consultants with design experience and custom tools and software for designing and modeling blast resistant and other special application doors
- Blast Door Manufacturers with a combined knowledge base of over two hundred twenty years of designing, manufacturing and delivering quality blast doors
- EMP experts with expertise and capability to design and test to MILSPEC
- Experts in kinetic structures, controls and automation
Castle Shelter Group has provided products and / or services to customers including:
US Engineering Firms:
Bechtel
Jacobs
AECOM
Fluor
Black & Veatch
Stanley Consultants
Blast Consultants:
Weidlinger Associates
Thorton Tomasetti
Tobolski Watkins
Hinman Consulting Engineers
Baker Engineering
KPFF Consulting Engineers
US Government Agencies:
US Army Corps of Engineers
NAVFAC
USAF
DTRA
PDC
NNSA
Castle Shelter Group continues to serve the special protective door market from concept to commissioning.