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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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The right lock can support access control for improved school safety. 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. This is especially crucial when specifying locking hardware.

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Asset Life-cycle Model, Asset Information Model, and Why BIM Won’t Work

Building Information Management

Furthermore, there are critical life-safety and security issues associated with our crumbling and mismanaged physical infrastructure. The primary issue is that many facility management and AEC professionals confused 3D visualization with asset life-cycle management. It’s not even the most important tool.

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Construction Classification Criticality – A Draft White Paper

Job Order Contracting

The combination of information related to all aspects of physical assets life-cycle is best called a physical asset model. Physical asset models should NOT be confused with 3-dimensional (3D) visualization, which is merely one of several methods of representing and working with information.

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BIM and Cloud Computing – Get Beyond 3D Visualization and Focus Upon the “I”

Building Information Management

Current the most common being use of proprietary 3D visualization software for the purpose of supporting the design and construction phases of the facility life-cycle. The availability and integration of secure technology to promote collaboration and. BIM can be applied at various levels. Definition of THE CLOUD.

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