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Homes England names technical consultants line-up

Construction Enquirer

Twenty-seven consultants have secured places on Homes England’s £200m new Development and Regeneration and Technical Services framework. A dozen of the consultants were not on the previous multidisciplinary panel.

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Achieving Safer School Design with Secure Entry Vestibules

BD+C

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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School construction: Enhancing security through design

The Korte Company

Our success as a security-focused school construction company is underscored by our experience delivering 500 projects for our country’s Department of Defense. Exterior elements of secure school construction. Architects must design for the security of the school without making it look like a prison. Minimal, but not barren.

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Bringing Industry Expertise to Your Doorstep: A Peek at Viewpoint’s 2019 Digital Contractor Roadshow Speakers

Viewpoint Construction Technology

With that, let’s take a look at our speaker lineup for the 2019 Digital Contractor Roadshows: The Cyber-Security Expert. Bryce Austin , cyber-security expert and best-selling author gives an exciting and compelling discussion on cybersecurity in the construction industry. His best-selling book is titled Secure Enough?

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Building Perimeters are Only One Layer in Safe School Design

BD+C

Requiring bullet- or forced-entry-resistant materials in exterior doors and windows aligns with the Partner Alliance for Safer School (PASS) K-12 guidelines for the Building Perimeter Layer of a school security plan. Government Accountability Office, current or former students account for half of school shootings.

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Using Locking Hardware to Support Code-Compliant Safer School Design

BD+C

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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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Creating 150 High Tech Jobs In Ireland

Business Facilities

Building on its long term commitment to the country, new jobs will be in the fields of R&D, cyber security, software development and cloud consulting. Read: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Creating 150 High Tech Jobs In Ireland at BusinessFacilities.com.

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