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Architectural Security Codes and Guidelines: Best Practices for Today's Construction Challenges provides in-depth, "what-to-do-now" building strategies to secure structures against natural forces as well as terrorism
This unique, practical resource is written for building owners, architects, engineers, construction managers, and other building professionals who must meet today's urgent security needs. Architectural Security Codes and Guidelines delivers effective, permanent solutions to securing structures right now.
The only resource to provide such on-the-job guidance, Architectural Security Codes and Guidelines defines all relevant issues, including the environment, sustainability, energy, information technology, changing demographics, safety vs. affordability, and much more, and outlines the roles and responsibilities of all participants.
- Provides step-by-step "best practices" guidelines and at-a-glance checklists for disaster preparation, mitigation, response, and recovery.
- Fully addresses topics such as risk-threat assessments, recommended HVAC systems and emergency generators . . . how to ensure that the elderly/handicapped can exit buildings quickly and safely . . . more.
- Lists the newest technologies and materials relevant to creating more secure structures . . . explains their advantages and disadvantages . . . tells how to incorporate them into new construction and/or use them for retrofitting
Inside Architectural Security Codes and Guidelines:
Construction Regulation Then and Now • Defining the Issues and Roles • Existing Codes • Existing Structures: Inspecting and Retrofitting • Before New Codes Are in Place: Interim Solutions • Preparation, Mitigation, Response and Recovery for Terrorism and Natural Disasters • New Technologies and Materials • Security and the Future Direction of Construction Industry • Resources for Additional Information
From the Foreword
If our nation and its construction community learned just one lesson from 9/11, the subsequent anthrax attacks, and the 2004 to 2005 hurricanes, it is how critical manmade structures are to sheltering and protecting the precious and fragile lives of our citizens. As Katrina proved, this is not only true in terms of being able to keep people alive, but in the ability of buildings to be readily repaired and put back into use after a major disaster. To better meet that challenge we must design, build, and operate our buildings with greater attention to their performance under stress.
I am writing the opening of this book sitting in my hotel room on the twenty-first floor overlooking a nearly deserted and very dark and quiet New Orleans, just two months after Hurricanes Katrina and then Rita hit the Gulf States. The anger over the inability of a manmade structure to withstand a disaster is still palpable here just as it was in New York City in the months immediately following 9/11 and in Washington, D.C., after the spread of anthrax through two federal facilities.
Here, the structures involved were levees as opposed to the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, a federal postal facility, and the Senate Hart Building. Here the investigations regarding the levee's failures have only just begun. In New York City, however, the final report of the National Institute of Standards and Technology on the World Trade Center Twin Towers has been issued, removing from the Towers the taint of improper design. The lessons learned from that tragedy are beginning to make their way into our nation's codes and standards. In Washington, D.C., studies of the spread of anthrax spores already have resulted in recommended changes in the design and operation of air handling and filtration systems.
The purpose of this book is to share with the building design and construction community technical information on the actions taken in the wake of 9/11 to make changes in the design, construction, and operation of new and retrofit of existing buildings to better protect them from man-made and natural disasters. This work also looks at those changes in the context of other forces impacting building design and construction, including the growing demand for sustainable and environmentally friendly construction.
More than just providing the reader with access to enhancements in construction codes and standards, design checklists, and operation guidelines, this book looks at changes that are occurring in the roles, relationships, and responsibilities of the construction team. Comprised of building owners, architects, engineers, contractors, product manufacturers and suppliers, codes and standards community, building officials, and building managers, in that aftermath of 9/11, the construction team bears greater individual and collective accountability for the public's safety in the built environment. The chapters of this book look at what is being done now, and what can be done in the immediate future to meet that challenge.
About the Author
Robert C Wible, the principal of Robert Wible and Associates and Secretary to the Alliance for Building Regulatory Reform in the Digital Age, served as the Executive Director of the National Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards, Inc. (NCSBCS) for 20 years. He has authored several studies on building regulations and economic development, and served as NCSBCS liaison to the nation's construction community. He assisted in the conceptualization and development of the Industrialized Buildings Commission, an interstate compact, and was the founder (in 1979) of National Building Safety Week.
Table of Contents
Foreword. Acknowledgements. Part I: Overview. Chapter 1: Codes and Regulations and the Construction Team. Chapter 2: Challenges Facing the Construction Team: Revising Codes and Standards, Redefining Roles and Responsibilities. Chapter 3: Findings from the World Trade Center Towers Collapse and Other Post-9/11 Disasters: What Is it that We Want Buildings to Do? Part II: Existing Guidelines, Codes and Standards and How they Protect Buildings and the Public from Disasters. Chapter 4: Beginning with the End in Mind: Assessing Risk, Threats, and Mitigation Strategies. Chapter 5: Existing Construction Standards, Codes, Practices, and Guidelines that Promote Security and Disaster Resilience in New Construction. Chapter 6: Existing Buildings: Inspections and Retrofitting. Part III: Addressing New Issues: Viewing the Building as a Complete Life-Cycle System. Chapter 7: Homeland Security and the Issues of Energy, Sustainability, Environment, Accessibility and New Products, Materials and Techniques. Chapter 8: A World Transformed: A Vision of One Possible Future for the Construction Industry and Construction Team. Appendix: Resources, Web Sites, and Chapter Notes.
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