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Achieving Safer School Design with Secure Entry Vestibules

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Achieving Safer School Design with Secure Entry Vestibules 1 kcichowicz Mon, 04/22/2024 - 10:47 Designers can plan secure entry vestibules with security-rated glazing to enhance the effectiveness of their safer school designs. What are secure entry vestibules and how do they support safer school design?

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Safety AND Security: The Importance of Component Compatibility

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Safety AND Security: The Importance of Component Compatibility 1 kcichowicz Thu, 05/25/2023 - 09:31 With proposed and passed laws, it’s important lawmakers and building professionals acknowledge the interplay between fire safety and building security. How can model code changes help ensure safer school design?

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Drones take site assessments to new heights

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discusses strategies for using visualization and reality capture. While photos and drawings can offer a small glimpse of an overall site, it can be challenging to visualize and understand how all elements relate to one another. We look at their lighting and identify where there may be gaps that cause security issues.

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Using Locking Hardware to Support Code-Compliant Safer School Design

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All these pieces need to work together properly to enhance school safety and security. As such, safer school design brings together building, construction and security communities. Instead, specifiers are encouraged to use locks with either the entrance/office function or the classroom security function.

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Dept. of Homeland Security offers tool to analyze building risk and resilience

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Department of Homeland Security is now providing The Integrated Rapid Visual Screening tool designed to determine initial or relative risk and resilience for buildings based on visual inspection only.

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EarthCam 5G Construction Camera

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The company’s 5G construction camera, in collaboration with Sierra Wireless, Verizon, and AT&T, makes it possible to send an almost unlimited amount of visual data from the job site. It enables live-streaming, drone, and security analytic applications as well as time-lapse documentation.…

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Emerging considerations in inclusive design

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Colored glass redirects those who may be disoriented after passing through security. Visual Impairment There are also innovative ways to incorporate accommodations for the visually impaired. Nemour's Orlando Children's Hospital. Alternatives to braille may lean into the senses of smell and sound.

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