Over 40 Years in BusinessISO 27001 compliantPublic sector: GSA contract holder
LA 562-298-5000 · Chicagoland 312-432-5300 · Phoenix 602-733-6807 · Client Support
Over 40 Years in BusinessISO 27001 compliantPublic sector: GSA contract holder
LA 562-298-5000 · Chicagoland 312-432-5300 · Phoenix 602-733-6807 · Client Support
BTI Communications Group, LTD. is a commercial security integrator with an office in Santa Fe Springs serving Los Angeles County, in business for over 40 years. We install office access control for towers, creative offices and suites across LA County, from lobbies and elevators to garages. California licenses ACO #7670 and C-7 807767. Call 562-298-5000.
Requirements
Recommended setup
In Los Angeles, office access control usually has to fit a building that already exists: a base building system, a garage operator and a property manager with their own rules.
Optical turnstiles or a staffed desk that reads tenant badges and prints visitor passes.
Suite entry readers on the tenant's own platform or as a partition of the landlord's system.
Floor-select or destination dispatch integration, coordinated with the building's elevator contractor.
Long-range or mobile readers at parking gates so one credential covers the drive in.
Mobile credentials for hybrid staff, with HID cards or fobs for anyone who prefers them.
Fail-safe or fail-secure locking chosen door by door, with battery backup sized for long outages.
Axis or Avigilon video at entries and Axis intercoms at after-hours doors.
Class A towers in Downtown Los Angeles, Century City, Westwood and along Wilshire often screen everyone at the lobby. BTI connects optical turnstiles and the security desk to the tenant credential, so an employee walks through on a phone or badge and a visitor is checked in once and sent to the right floor.
Elevator integration is planned with the building's elevator contractor and the property manager. A badge lights only the floors its holder may visit, and stair doors lock from the stair side while staying free for exit.
Many Los Angeles offices are suites inside a larger building: a law firm on two floors in Pasadena, a studio in a Culver City creative campus, a medical billing team in a Long Beach mid-rise. BTI works within the landlord's building standards and adds suite readers either on the tenant's own platform or as a partition of the base building system, whichever the lease and the property manager allow.
During a tenant improvement, BTI coordinates rough-in with the general contractor so readers, door hardware and cabling are in the walls before drywall, which avoids rework and a second round of patching.
Every electrified door has to fail safe or fail secure. Fail-safe hardware unlocks when power is lost; fail-secure hardware stays locked from the outside and always opens from the inside. BTI chooses the lock for each door, sizes battery backup for the runtime you need and documents the choice for your building engineer.
Electrified locking on egress doors is reviewed against the California Building Code and may need sign-off from the local building and fire authority, such as LADBS and LAFD in the City of Los Angeles, or the departments in Long Beach, Pasadena and other cities with their own. BTI prepares the submittals and attends the inspection.
Standards and compliance
| Requirement | Source | What it means for your doors |
|---|---|---|
| Electrified egress doors | California Building Code and California Fire Code | Sensor or push-button release, release on power loss where required, and a tie to the building's life safety system. |
| Accessibility | California Building Code Chapter 11B | Readers, keypads and intercoms at accessible heights with easy to operate hardware. |
| Workplace violence prevention | California Labor Code 6401.9 (SB 553) | Controlled entries, visitor logs and lockdown give the employer's written prevention plan practical controls. |
| Elevator interface | Elevator contractor and state elevator permit | Access control signals are wired through the elevator contractor's interface, never directly into the controller. |
Your building official and fire authority make the final call on code questions; BTI designs to pass their review the first time.
Platforms
BTI installs and services every platform below from Santa Fe Springs and recommends one after the survey. HID readers and mobile credentials work across most of them. Not sure which fits? Read the commercial access control guide.
Cloud access control run from a browser or phone, popular with LA offices and multi-site owners. Eagle Eye cloud video is part of Brivo.
Brivo access controlCloud doors with touchless mobile entry, a good fit for creative offices and suites.
Avigilon Alta access controlOn-premises access control for sites that keep servers and video on their own network.
Avigilon Unity access controlEntraPass and KT controllers, common in LA County plants and public buildings that want an owned system.
Kantech access controlAccess It! for campuses and multi-department estates with many doors.
RS2 access controlAxis door controllers, readers and intercoms on the same network as Axis cameras.
Axis access controlInstallation
LA office projects usually run around tenant move-ins, landlord approvals and after-hours work windows.
LA office access control is quoted from a walk of the suite and the shared spaces. Door count, landlord building standards, turnstile and elevator integration, garage readers, permit requirements and the platform drive the proposal. BTI itemizes every line so the landlord's share and the tenant's share are clear.
Industries
Aerospace, food and metal plants from the South Bay to the Gateway Cities.
Docks, yards and driver windows near the ports and freeway corridors.
City halls, county service centers, yards and special districts.
Medical groups, clinics, dental and pharmacy access.
Multi-site badge programs and client-segregated storage.
Secured entries and lockdown-ready doors for schools and colleges.
Access control designed into new builds and tenant improvements.
Water, public works and server rooms with remote gate control.
CPA, title and insurance offices that protect client files.
Scheduled doors for ministries, campuses and community sites.
Proof
BTI Communications Group, LTD. installs and supports office access control across Los Angeles County from its Santa Fe Springs office, working on Brivo, Avigilon Alta (formerly Openpath), Avigilon Unity, Kantech, RS2 (Acre) and Axis for towers, creative offices and suites.
Yes. BTI connects optical turnstiles and the security desk to tenant credentials, so staff walk through on a phone or badge and visitors are checked in once and sent to the right floor.
Often, yes. Electrified locking on egress doors is reviewed against the California Building Code, and the City of Los Angeles and other cities may require building and fire department sign-off. BTI prepares the submittals.
Each door is set to fail safe (unlocks without power) or fail secure (stays locked from outside, always opens from inside), and battery backup keeps readers working for the runtime you choose.
Usually. BTI can add readers as a partition of the landlord's system or install the tenant's own platform at the suite door, depending on the lease and the property manager's rules.
Yes. BTI's office is at 12155 Mora Dr, Units 1 & 2, Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670, and the local line is 562-298-5000. BTI holds California licenses ACO #7670 and C-7 807767.
Yes. BTI designs, sells, installs, supports and takes over existing Brivo accounts, along with Kantech, Avigilon and RS2 (Acre) systems in LA offices.
Cost depends on door count, landlord standards, turnstiles, elevator and garage integration, permits and platform licensing. BTI provides an itemized proposal after a free site survey.
Tell us about your doors, people and schedules. An engineer replies within one business day.