Site Map - Facility Management

04/29/2008 - Division-I college football games cause an uptick in crime, a new study finds, but it worsens when an upset occurs.

04/29/2008 - Urban properties that face challenges from loiterers, such as the homeless, can use crime prevention through environmental design principles to solve the problem.

04/28/2008 - Use well-established environmental crime principles to make criminals conclude that it’s too risky to commit crimes on your property.

02/26/2008 - Explosive testing can reveal deficiencies in both new technologies and improperly designed window systems. Unfortunately, either through misinterpretation or ill-intent, compliance with selected test standards has been slowly falling by the wayside.

01/28/2008 - Parking garages can use the principles of crime prevention through environmental design to protect patrons.

12/18/2007 - CCTV has driven away graffiti and bogus slip-and-fall claims at one Manhattan building.

12/12/2007 - Highly acclaimed in its first edition, the update of Geoff Craighead's High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety manages to outdo the original. The thoroughly referenced work picks up where the last edition left off, detailing advances in practices and technology as well as discussing the impact of the destruction of the Twin Towers. It's destined to be a bible to building security professionals, an in-depth overview for other security professionals, and an engaging read for laypersons.

12/11/2007 - Building owners and managers can always make their facilities safer, but at what cost? Three years after the United States learned how vulnerable its landmark facilities were, a new software tool is being released that can help building owners and managers calculate and compare life-cycle costs of various methods used to reduce terrorist risk at buildings. Due out in beta version in September, with version 1.0 promised for March 2005 and a final version a year after that, the software "will allow building owners and managers to make comparisons among several alternative risk mitigation measures under different user-defined disaster scenarios," according to a recent report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Read "Cost-Effective Responses to Terrorist Risks in Constructed Facilities"

12/05/2007 - To ensure that security barriers won't fall if subjected to a car-bomb attack, businesses must properly assess the risk and select the right barrier for the job.

11/29/2007 - What companies need to know to protect their facilities when they lie in the path of protests.

11/29/2007 - How the professionals protected the Democratic National Convention and lessons for the future.

11/28/2007 - A headache and potential cause of liability for high-rise buildings, BASE jumping describes a practice in which parachutists leap from high fixed objects, such as Buildings, Antennas, Spans, and Earth (or cliffs). The practice, usually illegal, is recently on the rise according to a jumper who tracks such activity.

11/28/2007 - The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and Emergency Management Agency now have a real-time view of monitors at three state nuclear power plants, including Three Mile Island.