Understanding the Importance of Damage Assessment In Continuity Planning
Many business continuity planners don’t completely understand what damage assessment entails. You can’t assume you’ll get your building back the minute the fire is out, or the water is contained. Until your local health department [...]
Prioritizing Your Protection Strategies
What is a facility manager to do in these days of stagnant or, worse yet, shrinking budgets? With the cost of everything from electricity and gas to salaries and insurance skyrocketing, there is little left [...]
Multi-Hazard Facility Risk Assessment Strategies with Window Hazard Mitigation Examples
Today’s environment of increased risks requires protective design and risk management for most facilities. This article presents an overview of facility risk assessments and focuses on the critical area of window hazard mitigation. Because glass [...]
Evacuation Planning: Four Mistakes Managers Make
When New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle accidentally crashed a plane into a New York City high-rise this past fall, it once again raised awareness of the need to safely and quickly evacuate buildings in [...]
Cooling Contingency
Planning for Data Centers : Be Prepared for Catastrophic Failure Being prepared for the unexpected is good management practice in any industry, but in the case of data centers, success or failure can be critical [...]
Office Buildings: Why a Partnership between Tenants and Building Managers Is So Critical Today
The Fire Department of New York City has created a new Law (3 RCNY §6-02) that applies to non-fire emergencies for office buildings. It is an important message to building managers and to the people [...]
Dealing with Hazmat Issues: Regulations and Spill Cleanups
Introduction Hazardous material spills can take a hefty toll on all involved parties. Cleanup bills, legal liabilities and frustration for affected property owners only scratch the surface of problems commonly associated with spills. With the [...]
Neocortical Security: a New Security Management Model for the 21st Century
Security management is an evolving discipline. Demands on security professionals have increased to an unprecedented high level. These demands are from technological changes, increasing threats, higher expectations for security and emergency preparedness and more. Security [...]
Year without a Storm? Complacency – the Enemy of Effective Disaster Recovery
Within a few days of Hurricane Katrina walloping the U.S. Gulf Coast, when the scope of the damage was still far from completely understood, the severe storm was being called the worst natural disaster in [...]
From Site Selection to Data Protection: a Variety of Technologies Can Help Facilities Prepare
We have all witnessed the horrific effects of severe weather and its impact on people and facilities - particularly in the Gulf Coast. There are many lessons to be learned from disasters, and technology is [...]
What You Don’t Know about Katrina Recovery
People and businesses in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are prepared for hurricanes - in this region they are a fact of life. However, Hurricane Katrina's devastation on such a massive scale unleashed a [...]
Making Safer Structures: the Effects of 9-11 on Today’s New Building Codes
Three and a half years after 9-11, building codes are only just starting to reflect lessons learned from the World Trade Center (WTC) collapse. More movement is likely, however, as further information is gathered about [...]