ISC security design criteria for new federal office buildings and major modernization projects : a review and commentary / Committee to Review the Security Design Criteria of the Interagency Security Committee, Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, Division on Enginee ring and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.) Committee to Review the Security Design Criteria of the Interagency Security Committee., Corporate Author.

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment.

United States. Interagency Security Committee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public buildings--Security measures--United States.

Public buildings.

Terrorism--United States--Prevention.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 53 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Interagency Security Committee security design criteria for new federal office buildings and major modernization projects

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In November 1999, GSA and the U.S. Department of State convened a symposium to discuss the apparently conflicting objectives of security from terrorist attack and the design of public buildings in an open society. The symposium sponsors rejected the notion of rigid, prescriptive design approaches. The symposium concluded with a challenge to the design and security professions to craft aesthetically appealing architectural solutions that achieve balanced, performance-based approaches to both openness and security. In response to a request from the Office of the Chief Architect of the Public Buildings Service, the National Research Council (NRC) assembled a panel of independent experts, the Committee to Review the Security Design Criteria of the Interagency Security Committee. This committee was tasked to evaluate the ISC Security Design Criteria to determine whether particular provisions might be too prescriptive to allow a design professional "reasonable flexibility" in achieving desired security and physical protection objectives.

Contents:

Front Matter

Acknowledgment of Reviewers

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Executive Summary

1 Introduction

2 A Performance-based Approach to Security and Blast-mitigating Building Design

3 Blast Effects on Buildings and People: A Primer for Users of the ISC Security Design Criteria

4 Assessment of the ISC Security Design Criteria

Appendix Biographies of Committee Members.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610179961

9780309168113

0309168112

9781280179969

1280179961

9780309512473

0309512476

OCLC:

56117360