Profile shot of Lori Greene, Lockstar & Industry Icon 

BLOG: MARCH 2023
CELEBRATING WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

UNLOCKING THE SECRET TO SUCCESS WITH INDUSTRY LOCKSTAR, LORI GREENE

It may be Women’s History Month, but this article isn’t just about an industry icon and expert, who happens to be a truly successful woman in a male dominated industry. This month, we celebrate the concept that if you have a passion, you can dream it, you can build it, you can become it and you can live it every day.  And this is a message that reaches far beyond a month or a particular gender or any one career.  Read on for more about Lori Greene, DAHC/CDC, FDAI, FDHI, CCPR, and manager of codes and resources for Allegion.

Lori Greene is known by many in the industry as one of the leading experts in code requirements, and the impact those mandates have on how door and hardware industry professionals perform their work. She is a member of the Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association (BHMA) Codes, Government, and Industry Affairs Committee and works with the model codes and referenced standards related to door openings. She is also very involved with school security/ safety awareness and the importance of code-compliant fire door assemblies.

For more than three decades, Lori has experienced nearly every aspect of the door and hardware industry,  from distributor and manufacturer’s rep to specification expert and code crusader, and has done it with passion, grace, intellect and a relentless pursuit of what it means to be accountable to safety.

A Grand Plan Reveals Itself
In a recent interview with Lori about her beginnings in the locksmith and security industry she recalls she had no grand plan laid out when she started learning about doors and hardware. An architectural graduate of Vermont Technical College, she found herself a hardware detailer as she began her career.  She feels fortunate that early on in her work, she discovered a passion for codes, and felt she could make a difference by understanding them and by helping others not only understand them, but come to care about their importance as she did.

As part of this desire, Lori knew she needed a bigger platform and more readily accessible information and training on codes and their requirements.  So, in 2009, she started a website called iDigHardware.  Her initial intent was to simply use the site as a way to put code information out where people could access it, but her site, fueled by her knowledge, had bigger plans.

In this day and age, blogs and experts come and go, but still going strong after 14 years, Lori’s website, her blog and her growing following continues as a trusted resource to thousands of manufacturers, spec writers, consultants, architects, AHJ’s and trade professionals worldwide.

For the full blog, click here.

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