Life Sciences & Cleanroom Airlocks
One door opens.
The other can't.
Airlock & Interlock Systems
We install Sentry Interlocks airlock systems in pharmaceutical, biotech, CDMO, and medical facilities throughout Washington DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia — with the rigorous validation packages your quality team requires.
Discuss your projectcGMP & ISO cleanroom compliant
PAL, MAL, gowning room, and air shower sequencing
IQ/OQ validation documentation
Evidence packages that hold up to FDA and notified body review
DMV & Nationwide Deployment
Serving the I-270 biotech corridor, NoVA tech centers, and facilities US-wide
60-min SLA for managed clients
Most issues resolved remotely via WebLock — no dispatch required
Standards & compliance:
cGMP
21 CFR Part 211
21 CFR Part 820
ISO 14644
GMP Annex 1
BSL-2 / BSL-3
ISO 13485
IQ / OQ
What we install
Cleanroom Airlock & Controlled Entry Solutions
From a simple 2-door gowning room to a multi-zone pharmaceutical campus — we've designed and installed them all.
Personnel Airlocks (PAL)
Controlled entry for staff moving between classified zones. Prevents simultaneous door opening, enforces gowning protocol sequence, and can trigger air shower or UV cycles before inner door release.
Material Airlocks (MAL) & Pass-Throughs
Controlled entry points for materials, components, and product moving between cleanroom zones — including static pass-throughs, dynamic pass-through chambers, and roll-up door material airlocks.
Gowning Rooms & Change Rooms
Sequential interlocking for multi-stage gowning areas — ensuring staff have fully completed each gowning step and closed the previous door before the next zone opens. Supported across all ISO classifications.
BSL-2 & BSL-3 Containment
Biosafety level containment labs require interlocked entry that integrates with directional airflow, emergency override, and biosafety cabinet monitoring systems. We design for containment first.
Air Shower Integration
Time-delay sequencing activates air shower, ventilation blowers, or UV lamps inside the airlock vestibule for a defined period before the inner door releases — built into the Sentry interlock logic natively, no PLC required.
BMS & Access Control Integration
We tie every interlock into your existing access control system, fire alarm, and building management system. Real-time door status feeds your BMS for centralized monitoring, audit trail, and compliance reporting.
Client feedback
"Ironsight handled everything — the interlock design, access control integration, fire alarm tie-in, and the IQ/OQ documentation package. One contractor, no gaps. We went into our PAI with confidence the physical access controls would hold up to scrutiny."
Director of Facilities Engineering
Mid-Atlantic pharmaceutical manufacturer · NDA-stage facility
Technology partner — Sentry Interlocks
Pre-engineered. Pre-programmed. No custom panels.
Unlike job-shop custom interlock panels that are expensive to build and painful to troubleshoot, Sentry Interlocks ships pre-programmed to your exact locking scheme — making installation faster, changes easier, and failures rarer.
EZ ModLock – 2 Door
Ideal for simple PAL, MAL, and gowning room applications. Two doors that cannot open simultaneously, with LED door status indicators and any 24VDC failsafe lock.
Swing, sliding, or pass-through doors
Pre-programmed at factory
LED real-time status indicators
No PLC or custom wiring required
EZ ModLock – Multi Door
For complex multi-zone interlock sequences up to 10 doors — automatic doors, air shower activation, and time-delay conditioning cycles for cGMP environments.
Up to 10 interlocked doors
Automatic door support
Time-delay for air treatment / UV cycles
BMS I/O output for monitoring
EZ WebLock
Web-based management for large facilities — up to 100 doors, centralized dashboard, remote configuration over your facility LAN. Inspection-ready audit logs built in.
Up to 100 doors / 25 modules
Remote config via browser — no software install
Real-time door status and event log
Pre-programmed, field-adjustable logic
Why Ironsight
We speak cGMP. Serving DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia.
Most integrators install the hardware and leave. We stay through validation, integration, and the first inspection.
01
Local Presence, Nationwide Capability
While we deploy across major US pharma hubs, our core team rapidly handles engineering, delivery, and critical validation compliance directly throughout the MD, DC, and NoVA operational corridor.
02
Life sciences is our primary vertical
Pharma, biotech, CDMO, and research facilities make up a significant portion of our project history. We've been through FDA pre-approval inspections as the installing contractor — and our documentation has held up every time.
03
Validation-ready documentation at project close
As-built drawings, wiring schematics, test reports, and IQ/OQ evidence packages — delivered before we leave site, aligned to your VMP, ready for your quality team on day one.
04
One contract — interlock, access control, fire alarm, and BMS
Airlock projects touch multiple systems at once. We scope and coordinate every discipline — no integration gaps discovered on commissioning day, no four subcontractors to manage.