Global Building Security

Safety and sustainability should always be connected. It is important that you build security features into your building in the design phase. When we provide you with design services, we are considering security and sustainability at the same time. Both should be design priorities.

We use crime prevention through environmental design principals to guide recommendations about building features such as outdoor lighting, daylighting, building ventilation, building envelope, and landscape design. When you use us, you can know that you are doing all you can to make your building efficient, safe, and good for the environment. Who else can you achieve these goals with?

Secure and Sustainable Building Features:

• Good Outdoor Lighting
  From a security perspective, outdoor lighting serves as a deterrent to crime at night. From a sustainable design perspective, we want to eliminate unnecessary lighting so as to reduce energy costs. Both of these approaches must be considered at the same time for the best design.
• Smart Daylighting
  When you want a building to be secure and sustainable you have to be wise. You want interior lighting to be enough for safety purposes, and minimal enough to keep building efficiency alive.
• Safe Ventilation
  Safety, sustainability, and occupational health are all related. You want to provide enough fresh air to building occupants but you do not want to overdo it. We will help you size your ventilation systems appropriately, use technology like occupancy sensors to minimize energy waste, and locate the system intakes in secure positions, so you can be sure that the quality of indoor air is safe, cost effective, and adequate for the well being of your building occupants.
• Strong Envelope
  When you think of building security, the first thing that comes to mind is probably the building’s ability to withstand a bomb attack. The building has to be designed so as to not collapse.
• Intelligent Landscaping
  Natural vegetation, and other elements of the landscape including sidewalks, can be used strategically to direct foot traffic in particular directions and to divert people away from areas that you do not want them to be near. You can use trees, water features, or other natural landscaping elements to keep vehicles away from areas that are only meant for pedestrians.

More Information

Read the Applied Risk Management Green Security Manual at: http://www.arm-security.com/green/index.php