Custom stainless railing systems, engineered and built in Pennsylvania.
Handrails, guardrails, structural glass, cable and LED-lit rails for hospitals, schools, libraries and offices, specified by architects since 2002.
Columbia, Pennsylvania
3905 Continental Drive
717.285.4088
Established 2002
Specified for
Since 2002 our railings have gone into hospitals, airports, universities, libraries and churches, working with the architects who design them and the contractors who build them.
- Boston Children's Hospital
- Children's Mercy Hospital
- Lansdowne High School
- Millersville University
- 16th Street Baptist Church
- Baltimore Hilton
- Dickinson College
- Maryland School for the Blind
When it absolutely has to be right, you can count on HDI.
Sales and support
Our sales team, many of them architects themselves, works with you from design and estimating through project management, on budget and on time.
LED handrail lighting
Concealed LED lighting in stainless steel and wood handrails.
Linear and Puck LED work indoors or outside, on straight or curved runs. The fixture, wiring and heat sink sit inside the rail, so the light is the only part you see.
AIA continuing education
Book our AIA course on designing guardrails and handrails.
In one hour, An Introduction to the Process of Designing Guardrails and Handrails covers design considerations, material strengths and options, cost and life cycle, building codes and federal ADA guidelines.
AIA registered CES provider
Why HDI
Every HDI railing system is engineered to our design criteria and to your specification.
A dedicated team of designers, engineers, fabricators and installers works on each job, and a project manager follows it from detailing to manufacture and through to installation if you need it.
Stainless steel grades
Made in the U.S.
Backed by professional engineers
Engineered to building code
Helps earn LEED credits
Our products
Railing, post, glass, cable, balcony and LED systems for commercial buildings.
Railings
Railing systems
APEX™, Versa™, CIRCUM™, Ferric™, inox™, Konic™, Kubit™, KOTO™, Optik™, Lo-Post™ and Fortis™
Posts
Post systems
CIRCUM™ Round and Square, Ferric™, inox™, Konic™, Kubit™ and Fortis™
Glass
Structural glass
Optik™ Boss, Optik™ Shoe, Optik™ Smoke Baffle and the Lo-Post™ family
Cable
Cable systems
KOTO™ Flatbar, Round and Square in 304 or 316 stainless
Balcony
Balcony systems
APEX™, Versa™ I Beam and Versa™ Square in aluminum and steel
Lighting
LED handrails
Linear and Puck LED, available across every HDI railing system
Talk to a rep about a custom system
Our sales reps, many of them architects, can adapt any HDI system to your drawings, finish and budget.
Contact a repLED handrail lighting
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2700KSoft white light runs the full length of the rail, from end to end, with no hot spots.
6000KThe same rail in day white, with 3000K and 4000K in between, and every option is dimmable.
RGBProgrammable color mixing for team colors on game night and warm white the rest of the year.
Fixtures for every HDI railing system
A single unbroken line of light along the rail, with the fixture, wiring and heat sink hidden inside it.
Color temperature
2700K to 6000K
Lens
Clear or frosted
Beam spread
Symmetric or asymmetric
Rated for
Interior and exterior
Crispus Attucks York, Linear LED
Choose glass, stainless rail, stainless panels, cable or mesh infill.
Infill sets the tone of a railing as much as the system does. Tempered glass reads modern and steel reads traditional and hard-wearing, and our team helps you pair the two.
Infill
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Glass infill panels
Clear, tinted, etched or laminated tempered glass.
Plan your railing with us in Revit before anything is fabricated.
Engineering and design
Our technical sales team, many of whom are architects, and our professional engineers can join early in design and stay through construction, advising on fastening, attachments and mounting structures.
- 01Design consultation with your regional sales manager
- 023D renderings in Revit before fabrication
- 03Detailing and drafting backed by our PEs
- 04Manufacture in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- 05Installation by our team or yours
Customization
We help you customize a pre-engineered railing system without breaking the budget or the schedule.
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Our sales team and engineers advise on installation methods, fastening, attachments and the mounting structure, so the system suits the building it goes into.
Case studies
Projects we have built with architects.
Recent work runs from a mass timber stair in York to a business school commons in Millersville and a church visitor center in Birmingham.
Linear LEDCrispus Attucks York
Linear LED on a mass timber stair
Architecture by Murphy & Dittenhafer Architects
Optik™ Shoe16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham
Optik™ Shoe glass railing in the Education and Visitor Center
Architecture by CCR Architecture
KubitChildren's Mercy Hospital, Missouri
Kubit railing around a color-lit stairwell
Optik™ ShoeMillersville University
Optik™ Shoe at the Lombardo College of Business
Architecture by Hord