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Safeguarding our schools: Strategies to protect students and keep campuses safe

BD+C

Safeguarding our schools: Strategies to protect students and keep campuses safe 0 qpurcell Tue, 03/26/2024 - 08:03 Security and Life Safety HMC Architects' PreK-12 Principal in Charge, Sherry Sajadpour, shares insights from school security experts and advisors on PreK-12 design strategies. A few key considerations include: 1.

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Construction Cost Knowledge Management

Job Order Contracting

The ability to clearly define detailed line item tasks defining the desired scope of work is critical to mitigating errors and omissions, reducing the number of change orders, as well as achieving defensible cost visibility and transparency. Technology alone, however, is not enough to harvest the value of cost knowledge management.

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FEDRAMP is Hindering Facilities Management in the Federal Sector

Job Order Contracting

The fact is that FEDRAMP can and has harmed efficient federal sector stewardship of the built environment. 1 FEDRAMP was initially establish to provide a standardized method for ensuring digital information security for federal government agencies. We are happy to hop on a call to assist you from an informational standpoint.

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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. It takes balance.

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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. One answer is a multilayer approach to school security.

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Expert Advice for Reducing ?Risk of Cyberattacks

Pro Builder

As predominantly small- and medium-size companies, home builders and trade contractors are especially vulnerable to cybersecurity issues, due to lack of resources, and they are disproportionately affected by hacking because they can’t easily absorb the financial losses of a security breach. You have perimeter defenses.

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HUB's Raymond Monteith Offers Expert Advice for Reducing ?Risk of Cyberattacks

Pro Builder

As predominantly small- and medium-size companies, home builders and trade contractors are especially vulnerable to cybersecurity issues , due to lack of resources, and they are disproportionately affected by hacking because they can’t easily absorb the financial losses of a security breach. You have perimeter defenses.

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